Nicholas Hancox:

• past Chairman of the (national) Education Law Association
• Master’s Degree (LLM) in 2005 for research into the law on faith schools
• editor of Butterworths’ Law of Education - the definitive electronic and six volume loose-leaf text on the subject
• editor of the bi-monthly Law of Education Bulletin
• author of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents
  education volume
• was the general editor of Tottel’s Education Law Manual from 2000 to 2008
• LEA governor at a local primary school
• qualified as a solicitor in 1977
• was the education solicitor for Norfolk local education authority from
  1988 to 1996
• practised education law with Mills & Reeve from 1996 to 2003
• founded this law firm in 2003.

Debbie Ashton:

• qualified as a solicitor in 2004,
• 15 years as a school teacher, before re-qualifying as a lawyer.
• read Classics at Oxford and completing her PGCE at Cambridge
• taught GCSE and ’A’ Level Classics at maintained and independent schools.
• was a Solicitor with Liverpool City Council, before joining Nicholas Hancox Solicitors
• has experience of planning and environment law, local government law and village green registrations, as well as education law.

Debbie's long experience of teaching and pastoral care in day schools and boarding schools provides a very useful insight into the realities of life in school and college and brings a new dimension to our legal advice and representation for heads, governors and teachers.