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JWP Solicitors Team

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Our team includes members of the law society's children and family panel, resolution and the criminal litigation accreditation scheme. Three of our solicitors are higher court advocates. We do not employ untrained paralegal staff, everyone working on your case is legally trained.

   
 

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The Partners


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John Wood

JWP Solicitors Partner, Leeds/Wakefield.
John trained as a Solicitor in Leeds before qualifying in 1986. He became a partner in a West Yorkshire general Practice in 1991 and was instrumental in establishing the John Wood Partnership in 2000. John is a member of the Law Society Specialist Children Panel and also a Criminal Law Accredited Duty Solicitor with 22 years experience in Family and Criminal Law.





 

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Jane Curnin

JWP Solicitors Partner, Leeds/Wakefield.
Jane holds degrees in Applied Social Science and English. Upon qualification, she practiced Child Care Law for a Local Authority Legal Department, establishing extensive experience in Public Law Care Proceedings and Adoption before entering private practice in 1995. Jane is one of the founding Partners of John Wood Partnership solicitors and is highly regarded by courts, professionals in Child Care and fellow practitioners, as an exceptional advocate, acting in complex Child Care cases in the Family Proceedings, County and High Courts.


 

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John Wilkinson

JWP Solicitors Partner, Leeds/Wakefield.
John Wilkinson qualified in 1996 and spent an initial period as an Assistant Solicitor in private practice specialising in Criminal Law. John was a co-founder in setting up JWP Solicitors. John holds the Higher Rights of Audience (Criminal Courts) qualification, enabling him to conduct cases himself without a Barrister at the Crown Court. He is also an accredited Criminal Law Duty Solicitor and has extensive advocacy experience in the Magistrate and Crown Courts as well as dealing with cases before the Court of Appeal and European Court of Human Rights.
 



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Wendy Campbell

JWP Solicitors Partner, Leeds/Wakefield.
Wendy graduated in 1988 from Teeside University with law degree. She has many years experience in Family Law, and ancillary relief (financial disputes), particularly in cases involving business assets and pensions. Wendy also has vast experience with children proceedings such as residence, contact and applications to remove children out of the jurisdiction of England and Wales. Wendy Campbell is an Accredited member of Resolution, a Collaborative Lawyer and an Accredited member of the Children Panel, becoming a partner in 2003.

 

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Amanda Steele

JWP Solicitors Partner, Leeds/Wakefield. Amanda graduated in 1993 with a law degree. She worked as Head of the Family Law Department at a Private Practice for four years before joining the JWP Solicitors Family Law Department in 2002, becoming a partner in 2006. Amanda has dealt with all aspects of Family Law, including ancillary relief, pensions, Child Care Law and domestic violence. She has extensive advocacy experience and specialises in child cases and domestic violence. Amanda is also an Accredited Specialist of the Solicitors' Family Law Association and is an SFLA member.

 

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Daniel Smith

JWP Solicitors Partner, Leeds/Wakefield.
Daniel obtained an LLB Hons in 1998 having previously worked in stock management/retailing for a West Yorkshire plc dealing with a multi-million pound budget. Daniel's training was with a Private Practice firm; primarily in Criminal Law and he joined the John Wood Partnership in 2003 as a qualified specialist Criminal Law Duty Solicitor, being one of the first solicitors in Yorkshire to obtain the Criminal Litigation Accreditation qualification. Daniel represents clients at the Police Station and at both the Magistrates' and Crown Courts. He specialises in road traffic defence work and established our rescuemylicence.com department. He became a partner of the firm in 2006.
 
 
  

Our Team


Gareth Long
JWP Solicitor, Leeds/Wakefield. Gareth trained as a solicitor in Canterbury, Kent and qualified in 2003. He obtained post-qualification experience with a Practice in Kent before relocating with his family to West Yorkshire and joining JWP Solicitors Family Law Department in 2004.

Suzanne Smith
JWP Solicitor, Leeds/Wakefield. Suzanne qualified as a solicitor in 2003. She obtained post-qualification experience with a city practice in Leeds specialising in residential conveyancing before joining the John Wood Partnership in 2005 to develop and expand a property and conveyancing department to meet the demands of Wakefield's thriving business community.

Katie Edmondson
JWP Solicitor, Leeds/Wakefield. Katie graduated with an Honours degree in Law at Sheffield Hallam University before completing her post-graduate studies at the College of Law in York. She undertook 2 years training at a criminal defence specialist firm before returning to Yorkshire when she qualified as a solicitor in March 2002. She is an accredited police station and court duty solicitor working in all areas of criminal and road traffic defence work. She has a particular interest in defending young people.

Emma Radley
JWP Solicitor, Leeds/Wakefield. Emma graduated from Liverpool University in 2004 with an Hons degree in Law. She then obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law in York. During this time she participated in the Street Law project which is a pro bono scheme to deliver legal rights awareness in the Doncaster New Deal for Communities area. Emma qualifed as a solicitor in December 2007.

Annie Walsh
JWP Solicitor, Leeds/Wakefield. Annie graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 2001 and completed her Post Graduate Studies at the College of Law in York before training with a small high street firm in Lancashire. Annie relocated back to Yorkshire in 2007 and joined JWP Solicitors in July 2008. Annie deals with all aspects of Family Law and has a particular interest in child related issues.

Heidi Fleming
JWP Trainee Solicitor, Leeds/Wakefield.
Heidi joined JWP in September 2007. She has an honours degree in law from Lincoln University and a post-graduate diploma in legal practice from Leeds Metropolitan University.

Andrew Brown
JWP Personal Injury Solicitor, Leeds/Wakefield. Andrew qualified as a Solicitor in 1983 having graduated from Leeds University with an Honours Degree in Law.  Over the last 18 years he has specialised in Personal Injury Claims of all types and level including problems arising from medical treatment, and has a longstanding membership of both the Solicitors Regulation Authority Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

 
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