Nicholas Hancox Solicitors
Calthorpe Green
Old Road
Acle
Norfolk   NR13 1QL

Tel:  01493 754004

Our Office


"Thank you, on behalf of all of us, for the excellent service you have given us and for dealing so promptly with the dispute. We would all unhesitatingly recommend your firm to anyone who was facing a similar problem."
- Nicola W. (on behalf of a group of neighbours in dispute with another neighbour over a private right of way)
Norfolk, 2010


"Many thanks for your support and advice over many years, Nick. It has been much appreciated... It has been good working with you and I'll certainly recommend you, if asked, for any specialist work."
- Jane Hargreaves
Head of Quality and School Improvement, Children's Services
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, 2009

Practical legal advice from solicitors who specialise in education law, local government law, highways law and compulsory purchase

Nicholas Hancox Solicitor

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

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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.........................NEWS

Bulletin 84 of The Law of Education was published in June 2010. This Bulletin, written by Nicholas Hancox, notes with sadness the death of all of the local education authorities in England and Wales. One of the final acts of the outgoing Government was to abolish the familiar term "local education authority" and replace it with the new term, "local authority". Hundreds of sections of Acts of Parliament and thousands of references in Statutory Instruments are going to be changed as a result.

Free Schools and New Academies are much in the news with the new Government's arrival. The plans and the legal issues which will follow are discussed on our new Academies and Free Schools web page