Debbie Ashton Profile
- qualified as a solicitor in 2004
- was 15 years a school teacher, before re-qualifying as a lawyer.
- read Classics at Oxford, followed by a 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
- is the National Legal Advisor to the Society of Local Council Clerks.
- 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 an extra dimension to our legal advice and representation for heads, governors and teachers.
As National Legal Advisor to the Society of Local Council Clerks, Debbie is daily advising the clerks of local councils, large and small.