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 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)

Free Schools and New Academies are much in the news with the Coalition Government beginning to legislate on education. There is more about this on our Academies and Free Schools web page