Hannah Wiltshire

Degree:

LLB (Hons) (Lond)

Year of call and Inn:

1998; Gray's Inn

Professional Membership:

Western Circuit; FLBA

Email:

hannah.wiltshire@albionchambers.co.uk

Specialist Areas:

Child Law

Matrimonial Finance

Practice Overview:

Hannah Wiltshire specialises in Court of Protection and family law, and particularly the interplay between these two jurisdictions and other areas of law. In family law, Hannah primarily undertakes matrimonial finance, child-care work, and trusts of land cases.

Recommendations:

"Held in high esteem by instructing solicitors across the South West, particularly for her impressive grasp of family finance matters. Her work ranges from disputes regarding allegations of fraud to those where bankruptcy is a possibility." "She is a very strong advocate and very well prepared. She is good on accountancy." "She is calm, with a fantastic client manner, and has a real presence in court." "She takes a pragmatic approach and delivers excellent results."
Chambers and Partners 2021

Areas of Practice

Matrimonial Finance

Tab 1 Title:

Acting for Husbands, Wives, and interveners, Hannah has conducted cases which involve companies, partnerships and farms.

Cases of interest include:

Re H – representing intervening daughter with beneficial interest in property owned by husband and wife;

Re L – representing intervening brother and mother with life interest in property owned by husband and wife;

Re B – representing husband. Co-director of pre-marriage business suffering the effects of economic downturn;

Re P – representing 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 – representing husband. Wife fraudulently encashed joint assets;

Re C – representing wife. Short marriage with contribution argument by virtue of her securing removal of agricultural tie on FMH which had been owned by her husband before their marriage;

Re C – representing wife. Whether concluded agreement and, if so, whether vitiated on grounds of change of residence of one of the children;

Re B – detailed analysis of company accounts of the husband’s nine companies proved an understated income on his part.

Clerks:
Michael Harding
E: michael.harding@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0302

Julie Hathway
E: julie.hathway@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0305

Marcus Harding
E: marcus.harding@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0314

Child Law

Tab 2 Title:

Primarily care work on behalf of parents, children, local authorities and interveners.

Cases of interest include:

Re G – representing the Local Authority. Children abducted to (and recovered from) Nigeria during proceedings;

Re R – representing the Local Authority. Brain-damaged shaken baby. Conflicting opinions between treating clinicians and independent experts;

Re G – representing intervening grandmother alleged to have colluded with others, and participated herself, in sexual abuse of her grandchildren;

Re W – representing mother. Posterior rib fracture – accidental or not?

Re C – representing the Local Authority. Sexual abuse of child. Six possible perpetrators;

Re T – representing 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 – representing father. Local Authority preventing and opposing contact with biological children following acquittal for rape of step-daughter.

Interplay with other areas of law:

Re P – representing a child in care proceedings where M was subject of orders made by the Court of Protection;

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 – representing wife in ancillary relief proceedings concurrent with husband’s confiscation proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act;

Re H – representing the intervening partner with a TOLATA claim against a property subject to a Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation order;

Re I – representing the Crown Prosecution Service in financial remedy proceedings following confiscation proceedings under POCA.

Clerks:
Michael Harding
E: michael.harding@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0302

Julie Hathway
E: julie.hathway@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0305

Marcus Harding
E: marcus.harding@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0314

Court of Protection

Tab 3 Title:

Hannah accepts instructions for the Court of Protection on issues of welfare and finance. Her experience in acting on behalf of local authorities in welfare matters pre-dates the inception of the Court of Protection, and her practice has continued to grow since, with a particular emphasis on welfare matters.

Hannah frequently writes articles for the Chambers’ newsletters and enjoys speaking at seminars. Information about focused in-house training that she can deliver to solicitors and local authorities can be obtained from Chambers’ Director, Paul Fletcher.

Cases of interest include:

Re LF – representing the Local Authority. Welfare issues over where to live and contact with family members. Issues of breaches of P’s human rights and confidentiality of proceedings by the actions of her family. DoLs issues arising from continued placement after Cheshire West.

Re X – representing the Local Authority. Welfare issues over contact with P’s son who was bullying and force-feeding.

Clerk:
Stephen Arnold
E: stephen.arnold@albionchambers.co.uk
T: 0117 311 0310

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