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Mental Health
Completed a BA (Hons) Degree at Bristol then undertook the conversion course in 1989 and completed the Law Society Finals with a distinction in 1990. She then began her training at Otten Penna and qualified in 1992. Susan is now a senior partner in the firm.
Susan specialises in mental health work and has been a member of the Law Society’s Mental Health Specialist Panel since 1992. She also combined her legal work for several years with a part-time post as a Mental Health Act Commissioner.
Susan is a highly qualified and experienced mental health and criminal lawyer.
Completed a B.SC (HONS) 2:1 degree from the New University of Ulster and then went on to do a postgrad diploma at Manchester University.
Ruth then did the CPE conversion course and LPC in 1988, being awarded a commendation in both. She completed her training contract at Beesley & Co. and was admitted as a solicitor in 2000. She has been a member of the Mental Health panel since 2001.
Ruth also specialised in wills and Probate
Family Law
Completed a BA (Hons) in Classics at Cambridge. Following graduation she worked with Women’s aid in a refuge for battered women and then returned to study and qualify as a Solicitor in Manchester. She undertook the conversion course and completed the Law Society Finals for her academic training as a Solicitor at Manchester Polytechnic.
Jai qualified in 1989 and became a salaried partner in 1990 and equity partner in 1994. Now a senior partner, she has increasingly taken on children public law work and became a Law Society Children Panel member in 1994.
Jai now deals mainly in complex children cases, covering both care, adoption and complex private law matters. She has a speciality in children law work for same sex couples being the Solicitor in the landmark case in 1994 in relation to a Joint Residence Order. She is a contributor to The Green Book in respect of the new Adoption and Children Act 2002. She is also a part-time Judge sitting as a Recorder when called upon.
Completed a BA (Hons) Degree.
Louise trained at Pannone & Partners and qualified in 1985. She became an associate in Pannone & Partners in 1988. In 1989 she bought the branch office with a colleague and created Morgan Garner Solicitors. In 1999 the partnership was dissolved and she then commenced work for Wolstenholmes. In October 2000 she moved to Otten Penna.
Louise has been a member of the Law Society Children Panel (Children Representative) since 1988. She has been a member of the Family Law Panel since its inception and has been a member of the Advanced Family Law Panel since February 2002. Louise undertakes all aspects of family work mainly children public care proceedings and adoption.
Completed a BA (Hons) Degree and was a partner at Prickets before joining Otten Penna. in 2002 and is a member of the Law Society Specialist Family Law Panel and Children Panel.
Simon undertakes all aspects of family law, including children, public and private law & also financial consequences of breakdown of marriage and other relationships.
Ms Mushaba Rafiq (Assistant Solicitor)
Completed her LLB (Hons) Degree and then the Law Society Finals at the College of Law, York.
Mushaba commenced working for Otten Penna in 2001 and specialises in family work undertaking all aspects of family law including marriage breakdown, divorce, financial matters, private children work and public children work. Mushaba became a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel (Children Representative) in July 2003.
Mushaba continues to undertake work in all aspects of family law, in particular specialising in public care children proceedings and private law children proceedings.
She speaks fluent Punjabi and Urdu which is useful in all cases of work where English is not the first language, especially so in childcare cases as the proceedings are specialist and complex.
Vicky Wright (Solicitor)
Completed a LLB (Hons) Degree and then the Legal Practice Course at Sheffield University.
Vicky trained at Elliot Mathers in Chesterfield and qualified in 1997. She joined Irwin Mitchell in 1999 and became an associate there in 2001. She relocated back to Manchester in 2004 working for TWP and joined Otten Penna in 2009
Vicky is a member of the Law Society Children Panel ( Children Representative) and a member of Resolution.
Vicky undertakes all aspects of family law including financial matters arising from the breakdown of marriages and other relationships, divorce and children issues.
Wills and Probate
Completed a B.SC (HONS) 2:1 degree from the New University of Ulster and went to do a postgrad diploma at Manchester University.
Ruth then did the CPE conversion course and LPC in 1988, being awarded a commendation in both.
She then went on to complete her training contract at Beesley & Co. and was admitted as a solicitor in 2000.
Ruth specialises in Wills and Probate, as well as Enduring Powers of Attorney and now Lasting Powers of Attorney, Advance Directives (living Wills), and applications to the Court of Protection. She also undertakes work involving mental capacity-related issues.
Ruth is a highly qualified and experienced lawyer with experience in Wills & Probate and Mental Health.