Welcome to Nicholas Hancox Solicitors

Our clients come from far and wide:

For example, we have current or recent clients in Bradford, London, Sussex, Somerset, Bedfordshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Coventry, Suffolk and, of course, local clients in Norfolk.

We advise clients by telephone and by email, by letter and (if it suits them) at our office here in Norfolk.

Nicholas Hancox Solicitor
is one of the editors of a seven-volume legal textbook, published by Lexis Nexis and called ‘The Law of Education”.

He qualified as a solicitor with a local authority in 1977 and was for four years the Director of Legal Services with Norfolk County Council.

Nick founded this firm in 2003.

Debbie Ashton Solicitor
has five years’ experience as a lawyer specialising in local council law and education law.

Debbie is the National Legal Advisor for the Society of Local Council Clerks.


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Bulletin 85 of The Law of Education was published (on line, on CD and in print) in August 2010. This Bulletin, written by Nicholas Hancox, analyses every section of the Academies Act 2010, much of which is already in force. Decided cases are extensively reported, including:

• A v Essex in the Supreme Court (a case about the Human Right to an Education)
• JR 17 also in the Supreme Court (about a Head's right to suspend pupils from school)
• Slough v SENDIST in the Court of Appeal (a case about the true cost of placing a statemented child in a maintained school)