Hannah Wiltshire
Degree: LLB (Hons) (Lond)
Year of call and Inn: 1998; Gray’s Inn
Professional Membership: Western Circuit; FLBA
Practice:
Hannah was called to the Bar in 1998 and initially practised in family, crime and PI in Exeter before joining Albion in 2004. In recent years she has chosen to specialise in family law although retains an interest in the interplay between family and other areas of law. She primarily undertakes matrimonial finance, care work, and trusts of land cases.
Matrimonial Finance Provisions:
Acting for Husbands, Wives, and interveners, Hannah has conducted cases which involve companies, partnerships and farms. Previous cases include:-
Re H – For intervening daughter with beneficial interest in property owned by Husband
Re L – For intervening brother and mother with life interest in property owned by Husband and Wife
Re B – For Husband. Co-director of pre-marriage business suffering economic downturn
Re P – For Wife. All assets (including contingent, possible hidden, and sole-trader business assets) in Husband’s name. Significant debt in Wife’s name. Issues about liquidity of assets and potential for bankruptcy.
Re H – For Husband. Wife fraudulently encashed joint assets.
Re C – For Wife. Short marriage with contribution argument by virtue of her securing removal of agricultural tie on FMH which had been owned by H pre-marriage.
Re C – For Wife. Whether concluded agreement and, if so, whether vitiated on grounds of change of residence of one of the children
Children:
Primarily care work on behalf of parents, children, Local Authorities and interveners. Examples are:-
Re G – For Local Authority. Children abducted to (and recovered from) Nigeria during proceedings
Re R – For Local Authority. Brain damaged shaken baby. Conflicting opinions between treating clinicians and independent experts.
Re G – For intervening Grandmother alleged to have colluded with others, and participated herself, in sexual abuse of her grandchildren
Re W – For mother. Posterior rib fracture – accidental or not?
Re C – For Local Authority. Sexual abuse of child. 6 possible perpetrators.
Re T – For Mother. Application for contact, on behalf of her and her younger son, with older adopted son when post-adoption contact refused contrary to approved care plan.
Re H – For Father. Local Authority preventing and opposing contact with biological children following acquittal for rape on step-daughter.
Interplay with other areas of law:
Re R – Junior defence Counsel in murder trial where the defendant, a child, was the subject of concurrent care proceedings
Re H – Advice to Local Authority about powers to challenge a remand to custody (at the child’s request) following charge of assault where the defendant was a child accommodated under s20 Children Act 1989
Re W – Disciplinary proceedings for misconduct, including applications for interim suspension, by the GSCC against a children’s Guardian.
Re W – For Wife in ancillary relief proceedings concurrent with Husband’s confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Re H – For intervening partner with a TOLATA claim against a property subject to a Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation order.
Albion Chambers, Broad Street, Bristol BS1 1DR
T: 0117 927 2144
F: 0117 926 2569
hannah.wiltshire@albionchambers.co.uk
Clerk: Julie Hathway T 0117 311 0305 (Maternity Leave)
Clerk: Theresa Lyne T 0117 311 0305
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