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Name: Penny Newman
Title: Director and Head of Department
Department: Childcare Law
Qualifications: LLB (hons)
Penny is a Director of the practice and head of care law in JNP Legal’s Care Team. She advises on all aspects of care law and represents families in care proceedings, adoption applications and private child law cases. Penny regularly appears in the family law courts throughout South Wales and also Mid and North Wales.
Expertise:
Qualified as a solicitor in 1983 following obtaining her law degree at Aberystwyth University and Chester College of Law.
Memberships:
Member of the Law Society Children Panel.
Member of the Association of Lawyers for Children
Trustee of TGP Cymru
Panel member and legal adviser to St David’s Children’s Society
Personal Interests:
Penny enjoys walking in the beautiful welsh countryside, cooking, occasional bird watching and attending as many live music events and theatre as possible.
Penny Newman
Name: Lee Douglas Davies
Title: Director & Solicitor, Head of Llanishen
Department: Head of Family Law
Qualifications: LLB
Lee is the Head of the Family Department and is principally based at our Llanishen office. He advises on all aspects of Family Law with a particular emphasis on Children Act matters involving disputes surrounding the living arrangements of children and the time children spend with their parents following the breakdown of parental relationships. He also advises and represents parents in care proceedings when local authorities become involved in families and seek a care order to protect children.
Expertise:
As a member of the Law Society Family Law Panel and the Law Society Children Panel he is an accredited specialist in all aspects of Family Law.
Memberships:
Resolution
Law Society Family Law Panel
Law Society Children Panel
Personal Interests:
Reading, badminton, Swimming
Name: Lavinia Roger
Title: Paralegal
Department: Criminal Law
Qualifications: Paralegal, Police Station Accreditation
Lavinia Rogers is a Paralegal in JNP legal Criminal Team. She advises on all aspects of criminal law with a particular emphasis on crown court matters.
Expertise:
All Crown Court matters
Memberships:
Member of the ILEX Legal Executives, Child Welfare Officer for Georgetown Boys and Girls Club
Personal Interests:
Qualified Football Coach and Child Welfare Officer for Georgetown Boys and Girls Club
Name: Rebecca Rees
Job Title: Director & Solicitor, Head of Nelson Office
Department(s): Head of Civil Litigation, Wills & Probate
Qualifications: LLB Law - Qualified in 2011. Studied law and undertook the Legal Practice Course at Cardiff University.
Rebecca Rees is a Solicitor who has headed the Civil Litigation Team at JNP Legal since 2015. She has more recently become Head of the Wills and Probate team.
Rebecca joined JNP Legal in 2008 from University, and commenced her training contract shortly afterwards. Rebecca advises individuals and businesses on most aspects of Civil Law. As a department head, Rebecca undertakes complex litigation, including high value contested probate and serious injury work.
Expertise:
She is highly experienced in both Claimant and Defendant litigation, including debt recovery, professional negligence claims, civil actions against the police, claims for wrongful interference with goods/delivery up, and inheritance act cases. Rebecca has considerable experience conducting multitrack and catastrophic injury work, including clinical negligence cases.
Due to her expertise in these areas, Rebecca has also worked on a Welsh Government project to introduce alternative entrance routes into the legal profession.
Memberships:
Rebecca is a member of APIL, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. She is an accredited APIL Senior Litigator.
Personal Interests:
Rebecca has two young children and spends most of her spare time having fun with them. Rebecca also enjoys cooking, and keeping active.
Name: Loran Beynon
Title: Solicitor
Department: Wills and Probate
Qualifications: Law Degree (LLB), Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Police Station Accreditation
Loran Beynon is a Solicitor within JNP Legal Private Client department. She advises on all aspects of Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Probate and applications to the Court of Protection, also dealing with any related conveyancing, land registration, severance of tenancy and transfer of property.
Loran is also an accredited Police Station representative, where she represents clients at the police station following a pre-arranged attendance or arrest.
Expertise:
Loran specialises in Private client law dealing with planning for the future, and ensuring clients wishes will be carried out when clients are no longer able to do so.
Memberships:
Solicitors regulation authority.
Personal Interests:
In her spare time, Loran loves to spend time with her family and stay active
Name: Evelyn James
Title: Solicitor
Department (s): Civil Litigation, Wills and Probate
Qualifications:
Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera
United World College of the Atlantic/ Atlantic College
University of Keele
Guildford College of law.
Date of admission to the role - 1991
Evelyn James is a highly experienced Dispute Resolution solicitor who also undertakes Contentious employment work and also private client work (specifically Wills and Probate). She has a broad range of civil litigation experience (Minority shareholder disputes, land/boundary disputes, landlord and tenant, and consumer disputes) to Court of Appeal Level . She has been involved in a number of reported cases. She is based at our Nelson and Cardiff offices. She is a Welsh speaker.
Expertise:
Civil Disputes, Employment, Wills and Probate
Personal Interests:
In her spare time Evelyn enjoys being walked by her dog, gardening and all things to do with arts and crafts, she has also recently taken up running.
Name: Rhiannon Stevenson
Job Title: Conveyancing Legal Executive
Department: Conveyancing
Qualifications: GCILEx
Rhiannon joined JNP Legal in 2001 and qualified as a Graduate from the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in 2009. Rhiannon works as part of our Conveyancing Team and specialises in residential property. She advises on all aspects of residential conveyancing with a particular emphasis on purchases, sales, re-mortgages and transfers of equity.
Expertise: Residential Property Transactions
Memberships: Conveyancing Quality Scheme
Personal Interests:
Rhiannon is a keen dog walker and in her spare time enjoys going on adventures with her dog. She also enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
Name: Cairan Trotman
Job Title: Operational and Finance Manager
Department: Practice Management
Qualifications: Masters Business Administration (MBA)
Cairan Trotman is Operational and Finance Manager at JNP Legal. Her remit includes Strategic Management, Finance, HR, Regulatory Compliance, Business Continuity, IT and Client Care.
Expertise:
Cairan has over twenty years’ experience within legal practice with the last 15 years being within legal practice management.
Memberships:
AAT – Full member, ILFM - Diploma, CMI Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
Personal Interests:
Horses, Dogs, Motorbikes and Wine.
Name: Louise Last
Title: Director
Department: Family/Childcare
Qualifications: LLB (hons)
Louise joined in 1996 as a trainee solicitor, qualifying in 1998 and is now a Director in JNP Legal’s Family/Childcare Team. She is a member of the Law Society`s Children Act Panel Accreditation Scheme. She is also a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children and Resolution and has over 20 years’ experience in practicing in family/child care law. Louise is also JNP Legal Anti Money Laundering Officer.
Expertise:
Louise’s particular area of expertise focuses on Private and Public proceedings concerning the welfare of children appearing at all court levels. She has practiced in this area representing parents, extended family members and other intervenors but the emphasis in more recent years has been in representing solely the children subject of the proceedings either by their Cafcass Guardians or acting independently and instructed directly by the child. In this field she has experience of complex cases involving sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect of children.
Memberships:
Member of the Law Society’s Children Act Panel Accreditation Scheme
Personal Interests:
Louise values time spent with family. She enjoys listening to music and relaxing by playing both the piano and harp. She is a member of the Gorsedd of the Bards and is a Welsh speaker.
Name: Howard Casey
Title: Compliance Manager
Department: Practice Management & Compliance
Expertise:
Howard has recently joined JNP legal as compliance manager having served 42 years within SWP both as a Serving Police Officer mainly as a Detective and the last 10 years as a support staff member working for the Police Federation. He has a wealth of experience as an accredited investigator and people management.
Memberships:
Law Society Risk & Compliance Member
Personal Interests:
Howard enjoys time with his family, all sports, reading and holidays. He is a former qualified WRU coach and successfully guided Merthyr RFC with 5 successive promotions from the Mid District into Division 1 of the Heineken League during the 1990’s. He played rugby for South Wales Police Pontypridd and Aberfan where he began his coaching career.
Lowri White
Name: Lowri White
Title: Solicitor
Department: Family Law
Qualifications:
Qualified in 2012
Cardiff Law School- Legal Practice Course
Cardiff University- LLB Law
Lowri is a solicitor within JNP Legal’s Family Law, Financial Remedies Unit. Lowri advises on all aspects of private family law matters with a particular emphasis on separation and financial remedy matters.
Memberships:
Lowri is a member of the Law Society’s Family Law Accreditation panel and also a member of Resolution promoting a non-confrontational approach to family issues.
Personal Interests:
Lowri enjoys going to the gym, reading and spending time with friends and family
Vanessa Evans
Name: Vanessa Evans
Job Title: Paralegal
Department: Care Law
Vanessa is a Paralegal in JNP Legal’s Care Department. Vanessa has worked in legal practice for 30 years and began her career as a legal typist/secretary in the Family Department dealing with divorces and Private Law proceedings i.e. Contact/Residence. For the past 16 years Vanessa has been a Paralegal dealing with Public Law Proceedings.
Expertise: Vanessa advises on all aspects of Public Law with a particular emphasis on Public Law Outline (PLO) Process initiated by Local Authorities in the hope of avoiding Care Proceedings and Care Proceedings when issued by Local Authorities.
Personal Interests: Travelling and socialising with family and friends
Amy Fair
Name: Amy Fair
Title: Trainee Solicitor
Department: Family Law
Qualifications: Bachelor of Law LLB, Legal Practice Course LPC
Amy Fair is a Trainee Solicitor in JNP Legal’s Merthyr Tydfil Office. She is working in the Family Department and has experience with representing parents in both private and public Children Act matters.
Personal Interests:
Personal interests include keeping active and reaching new goals.
Katie Terry
Name: Katie Terry
Title: Trainee Solicitor
Department: Care Law
Qualifications: 2:1 LLB Law Degree from Swansea University, Distinction on the LPC Course, Distinction in LLM, Masters in Advanced Legal Drafting from Swansea University.
Katie is a Trainee Solicitor within JNP Legal. She works primarily in the Care department assisting both parents and the children’s guardian in proceedings relating to children.
Expertise:
Katie has experience in some aspects of Personal Injury and attending police stations, however her experience is primarily family based, both in care and private children matters.
Memberships:
Katie currently holds the position of Vice President of the Swansea and District JLD.
Personal Interests:
Katie enjoys kayaking and trying new things. She enjoys walking her dog on the beach and reading.
Amy- Marie Vale
Name: Amy-Marie Vale
Title: Trainee Solicitor
Department: Family Law
Qualifications:
LLB (Hons) Law – Swansea University
LLM (Master in Laws) Legal Practice and Advanced Drafting – Swansea University
Amy-Marie joined JNP Legal in October 2018 as a Trainee Solicitor in the Family Department. She is based in our Merthyr Tydfil office and advises on all matters following the breakdown of relationships including divorce proceedings and private children orders.
Personal Interests:
Amy-Marie is a keen animal lover and enjoys the outdoors.
Emily Farmer
Name: Emily Farmer
Title: Paralegal
Department: Care
Qualifications: LLB (Hons)
Emily is currently studying the LPC and LLM in Advanced Legal Drafting at Swansea University.
Personal Interests:
Spending time with family and friends, going to music concerts and lots of shopping!
Rebecca Rees
Name: Rebecca Rees
Job Title: Director & Solicitor
Department(s): Head of Civil Litigation, Wills & Probate
Qualifications: LLB Law - Qualified in 2011. Studied law and undertook the Legal Practice Course at Cardiff University.
Rebecca Rees is a Solicitor who has headed the Civil Litigation Team at JNP Legal since 2015. She has more recently become Head of the Wills and Probate team.
Rebecca joined JNP Legal in 2008 from University, and commenced her training contract shortly afterwards. Rebecca advises individuals and businesses on most aspects of Civil Law. As a department head, Rebecca undertakes complex litigation, including high value contested probate and serious injury work.
Expertise:
She is highly experienced in both Claimant and Defendant litigation, including debt recovery, professional negligence claims, civil actions against the police, claims for wrongful interference with goods/delivery up, and inheritance act cases. Rebecca has considerable experience conducting multitrack and catastrophic injury work, including clinical negligence cases.
Due to her expertise in these areas, Rebecca has also worked on a Welsh Government project to introduce alternative entrance routes into the legal profession.
Memberships:
Rebecca is a member of APIL, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. She is an accredited APIL Senior Litigator.
Personal Interests:
Rebecca has two young children and spends most of her spare time having fun with them. Rebecca also enjoys cooking, and keeping active.
Natalie Dyer
Name: Natalie Dyer
Title: Solicitor
Department: Civil Litigation and Personal Injury
Qualifications: LLB Law (Cardiff University)
Legal Practice Course (Cardiff University)
Natalie Dyer is a solicitor within JNP Legal’s Civil department. Natalie joined JNP Legal in 2010 as a Trainee Solicitor before qualifying as a Solicitor in 2012.
Expertise:
Natalie advises on all aspects of personal injury claims and civil matters including contractual disputes, tenancy disputes, debt recovery and professional negligence claims. Natalie also deals with employment law matters including Settlement Agreements.
Personal Interests:
In her spare time Natalie enjoys spending time with her family as well cooking and reading.
Kate Morey
Name: Kate Morey
Title: Solicitor
Department: Civil Litigation and Personal Injury
Qualifications: LLB Law with Criminology
Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Kate Morey is a Solicitor in JNP Legal’s Civil Litigation department. Kate joined JNP Legal in 2012 as a Paralegal before completing her training contract with the firm. Kate qualified as a solicitor in 2015.
Expertise:
Kate specialises in dealing with personal injury claims. She acts on behalf of Claimants who have suffered injuries as a result of road traffic accidents, accidents at work, occupiers’ and public liability accidents.
Memberships:
Kate is accredited by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers as an accredited Litigator.
Personal Interests:
Outside of work Kate enjoys spending time with family and friends. She also enjoys walking and reading.
Natalie Matthews
Name: Natalie Matthews
Title: Solicitor
Department: Civil Litigation and Personal Injury
Qualifications: Law Degree & Legal Practice Course
Natalie Matthews is a Solicitor within JNP Legal’s Civil and Personal Injury Team. She advises on all aspects of personal injury and clinical negligence claims, including road traffic accidents, accidents at work and public liability claims. She has been working in the area of personal injury and clinical negligence claims since 2013.
Expertise:
Personal injury claims, clinical negligence claims and civil disputes.
Memberships:
I am a fully accredited Police Station Representative
Personal Interests:
I have a young child who keeps me very busy! Otherwise I enjoy watching the rugby and reading a good book.
Evelyn James
Name: Evelyn James
Title: Solicitor
Department (s): Civil Litigation, Wills and Probate
Qualifications:
Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera
United World College of the Atlantic/ Atlantic College
University of Keele
Guildford College of law.
Date of admission to the role - 1991
Evelyn James is a highly experienced Dispute Resolution solicitor who also undertakes Contentious employment work and also private client work (specifically Wills and Probate). She has a broad range of civil litigation experience (Minority shareholder disputes, land/boundary disputes, landlord and tenant, and consumer disputes) to Court of Appeal Level . She has been involved in a number of reported cases. She is based at our Nelson and Cardiff offices. She is a Welsh speaker.
Expertise: Civil Disputes, Employment, Wills and Probate
Personal Interests:
In her spare time Evelyn enjoys being walked by her dog, gardening and all things to do with arts and crafts, she has also recently taken up running.
Lewis Kerr
Tony Williams
Name: Tony Williams
Title: Director
Department: Crime and Regulatory
Qualifications:
LLB (hons), Court & police station duty solicitor, Higher Court Advocate (Criminal),
Tony Williams is a Director in JNP Legal’s Criminal Team.
He is a qualified duty solicitor (1999), Higher Court Advocate (Criminal) (2008) and holds the Law Society`s Criminal Litigation Accreditation.
Tony is also JNP Legal’ s COLP and COFA and also complaints director.
He is a member of the Association of Higher Court Advocates and has over 20 years’ experience in practicing criminal law.
Tony has particular knowledge in relation to road traffic law and Professional Misconduct investigations.
Expertise:
Appears regularly before Magistrates courts, Crown Courts and disciplinary hearings/panels. Has practiced criminal law exclusively for over twenty year and has a wealth of experience and expertise in court advocacy and litigation.
Memberships:
Member of the Association of Higher Court Advocates and Member of the Law Society’s Criminal Law Accreditation Scheme.
Personal Interests:
OCR, bike and triathlon racing….and Gin!
Josie Flicker
Name: Josie Flicker
Title: Director & Solicitor
Department: Criminal Law
Josie Flicker is a Solicitor in JNP Legal’s Crime Team. She completed her training contract at the practice and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 2004. She is an experienced Duty Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate. She is also the firms Training Principal and Data Protection Manager.
Expertise:
General crime including all aspects of motoring law; vehicle defects/documents offences, excess alcohol, failing to provide, drugged driving, due care, dangerous driving, causing death by driving.
Personal Interests:
Defending offences involving motorcycles/motorcyclists
Memberships:
CLAS, Law Society
Lewys Dymond
Name: Lewys Dymond
Title: Solicitor
Department: Criminal Law
Qualifications: Law Degree (LLB Hons), Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Police Station Accreditation
Lewys is a Solicitor in our Criminal Law Department. He regularly represents client both in the Police Station during an interview under caution and throughout the Criminal Court process.
Expertise: Criminal Law
Memberships:
Law Society
Police Station accredited representative.
Personal Interests:
Rugby, photography and wildlife
Lavinia Rogers
Childcare Law
Family Law
Job Title: Trainee Solicitor
Qualifications:
Law Degree (LLB Single Hons) – Swansea University
Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice – Cardiff University
Lewis joined the firm in November 2018 as a Paralegal before commencing his Training contract. He is now a Trainee Solicitor in the Civil Litigation Team. He advises on all aspects of Civil Litigation, with a particular emphasis on personal injury and clinical negligence, including accidents at work, slips & trips, road traffic accidents and criminal injuries. Lewis also advises on matters relating to Wills & Probate and is in the process of becoming an accredited Police Station Representative to advise clients who are being interviewed under caution at a police station.
Expertise:
Before joining JNP Legal, Lewis worked as a Paralegal in a large firm in Cardiff which specialises in employer’s liability and public liability personal injury claims.
Personal Interests:
As well as a career in law with JNP Legal, Lewis is currently serving in the British Army Reserve since 2015. Lewis also enjoys playing rugby for his hometown, staying fit and reading Ancient Roman military fiction.
Name: Rachael McCarthy-Jones
Job Title: Solicitor
Department: Wills & Probate
Qualifications:
LLB (Hons), Legal Practice Course, Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP)
Rachael McCarthy-Jones qualified as a Solicitor in 2009 and joined JNP Legal in April 2019. Rachael is highly experienced in advising clients on wills, lasting powers of attorney, applications for probate and letters of administration, the administration of estates, trusts, inheritance Tax and court of protection applications.
Memberships:
Rachael is a full member of the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
Rachael McCarthy-Jones
Natalie Welsh
Name: Natalie Welsh
Job Title: Property and Private Client Lawyer
Department: Conveyancing
Short Bio:
Natalie qualified as a Chartered Legal Executive in 2008. Natalie is a Conveyancing Executive dealing with residential conveyancing. She is also experienced in providing advice in all areas of private client work including preparing Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney and Court of Protection applications and general management. Natalie provides advice and assistance on acting as a Deputy or Attorney and deals with compensation protection via Personal Injury Trusts.
Natalie prides herself on the relationships that she builds with her clients when dealing with difficult and sensitive issues.
Natalie is based in our Nelson office.
Name: Cerian Wathan
Title: Paralegal, Care Department
Department: Childcare Law
Qualifications: Bachelor of Theology (Hons) Oxon; Post Graduate Certificate in Education; Graduate Diploma in Law; Legal Practice Course; working towards LLM
Short Bio:
Cerian Wathan is a Paralegal in JNP Legal’s Care Team, based in Merthyr Tydfil. She works primarily in the Care department assisting both parents and the children’s guardian in proceedings relating to children.
Cerian initially trained as a secondary school teacher but decided to change careers and studied law at Swansea University.
Personal Interests:
Cerian enjoys spending time with her family. She spends any spare time gardening, reading and walking. Cerian is a Welsh speaker.
Cerian Wathan
