People
We are Boyce Hatton Solicitors
What has really set us apart over our nearly 60 years of practice, is that our solicitors have always put clients first.
While some firms today choose to offer legal services only in one or two areas, we continue to offer our commercial business and private clients a comprehensive, yet personal legal service that covers a range of specialist areas.
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Anne Serle
Anne is a Solicitor and Associate with Boyce Hatton. She has over 20 years experience in family law. She is a member of Resolution which is a leading family law group whose members are committed to promoting a non confrontational atmosphere in which family law issues are dealt with in a sensitive, constructive and cost effective way. Anne is accredited by Resolution as a specialist family lawyer with a particular specialism in children law and cohabitation. Anne deals with all aspects of family breakdown including divorce, children and financial and property matters.…
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Ashley Bevans
Ashley is a Solicitor and member of the commercial property team at Boyce Hatton. He deals with all aspects of commercial property including sales and purchases and commercial letting. Ashley joined the team in November 2011 having previously worked in Exeter and Birmingham. …
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Catherine West
Catherine is a member of the dispute resolution team specialising in all aspects of employment law including day to day HR issues, matters arising on business sales or acquisition and claims relating to redundancy, dismissal and discrimination. She is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association. She also has over 12 years experience of dealing with difficult civil and commercial disputes…
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Cheryl Smith
Cheryl is a Trainee Solicitor with Boyce Hatton having graduated with a law degree from Exeter University in 2003. She has experience of both commercial and residential property matters and has specialist experience in working with developers on the sale and purchase of new build properties. …
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Christine Chant
Christine is a Solicitor and Associate with Boyce Hatton. She is a member of the residential conveyancing team. She has over 25 years experience in legal practice and specialises in property work including family transfers as well as sales, purchases, mortgages and remortgages. …
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Christine Niles
Christine Niles is a Solicitor in the Wills Trusts and Probate department specialising in trusts but also general probate matters. She qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives in 2006 becoming a solicitor in 2010.…
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Cris Boyce
Cris is a Partner and heads the corporate team at Boyce Hatton. He is recognised throughout the Southwest of England for his expertises in corporate and commercial matters, particularly in relation to mergers, acquisitions and disposals. Cris is also one of a handful of lawyers specialising in healthcare matters. He acts for a number of doctors and dentists. …
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Fiona Squire
Fiona is a Solicitor specialising in personal injury and landlord & tenant disputes both residential and commercial. She is a also a member of The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers. …
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Gary Watson
Managing Partner Gary Watson is one of a very few solicitors in the South West accredited as an Advanced Member of The Law Society's family panel specialising in complex assets cases and is head of the family law team at Boyce Hatton.…
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Janice Courtenay
Janice has over 10 years experience in practicing family law. She deals with divorce, injunctions and children matters both private and public law proceedings. She is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives. Janice joined Boyce Hatton in December 2011. …
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Joe Pengelly
Joe is a Partner and leads the commercial property team at Boyce Hatton. He has over 25 year experience in all aspects of commercial property transactions including residential and commercial development, leases, sales and purchases. He has a particular specialisation in development work. …
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John Townsend
John is a Partner in the corporate team at Boyce Hatton with over 25 years experience in company and commercial matters. He was formerly a partner at Bevan Ashford and then Bevan Brittan and joined Boyce Hatton in 2006. John specialises in a wide variety of corporate transactions and his particular interests include acquisitions and disposals of owner managed companies and businesses, MBO’s, joint ventures, reorganisations, investor and shareholder agreements, associated banking transactions and business start ups and partnerships.…
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Kate Barton
Kate is a partner with Boyce Hatton and a Children’s Representative of the Law Society’s Children Panel. She specialises in family and child care law, acting for parents, grandparents and children in cases between family members and also where social services are involved. She is a specialist in her field and a member of Resolution and The Association of Lawyers for Children. …
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Mark Pierce
Mark is a Partner and is the head of the litigation and personal injury department at Boyce Hatton. He is a specialist personal injury lawyer with over 20 years experience in the field. He deals with Claimant personal injury work and has a particular interest and specialisation in in acquired brain injury work. Mark has successfully concluded several large brain injury cases and is on the solicitors’ panel for Headway, the brain injury association charity. …
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Peter Cox
Peter is a Partner and head of the Wills Trusts and Probate team. Peter qualified as a Solicitor in 1993 and is a member of the Law Society’s Private Client Section. He specialises in Will and trust drafting, the administration of complex estates and trusts, asset protection and estate planning for the elderly client. Peter also deals with Powers of Attorney and the Court of Protection, advising in relation to mental capacity issues. …
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Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis is a partner and has over 25 years experience in dealing with complex civil and commercial disputes. He is a member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association and the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists. He is one of a small number of lawyers who holds the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners Advanced Certificate in Trust Disputes. Peter is also a CEDR trained mediator. …
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Peter Walmsley
Senior Partner Peter Walmsley has more than 30 years experience of legal practice. He is a specialist property lawyer and heads up the residential conveyancing department at Boyce Hatton. He also advises clients on complex areas of trust and tax law. He is a founder member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and a member of the Law Society’s Property Section. He is a trustee of a prominent local animal welfare charity. …
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Philip Smallwood
Philip is a Partner in the commercial property team specialising in all aspects of commercial property including buying and selling, commercial leases, property development and investment. Philip works closely with our corporate team particularly on the commercial property aspects of business acquisition and disposal.…
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Shelley Cox
Shelley is a Wills Executive in the Wills and Probate team. She joined Boyce Hatton in 2007 and specialises in Will drafting and preparation for both straightforward and complex estates. …
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