As one of the leading specialist practices outside London, Wrigleys has embraced the modern era while upholding the traditions and beliefs which have marked the firm out as distinct from its peers in a crowded legal market. We are recognised as experts in our specialist areas and give practical, common sense, and technically excellent advice to our clients with whom we form valued long-term relationships.Since the firm was established in 1996, we have been particularly fortunate and successful in attracting and growing nationally recognised specialists within a more flexible and collegiate environment.
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We advise our private clients on the protection of personal and inherited wealth. This is achieved through a complete understanding of their finances, aspirations and family relationships, coupled with in-depth knowledge of the applicable law and tax rules. Our clients include the owners of substantial landed estates, successful entrepreneurs, and the trustees of family trusts, as well as individuals with overseas interests. As well as providing estate planning advice, we advise the executors and beneficiaries of deceased estates.
The Wrigleys Family Business team provides strategic and legal advice to a large number of family business owners. Family businesses face unique challenges when balancing the needs of the family with the needs of the business. These challenges increase in times of inter-generational change and when businesses adapt to market pressures.
Wrigleys advises well over 100 landed estates, as well as many farmers and other landowners, on a very diverse range of matters. Our main aim is to help clients preserve family landholdings, which have often been held for many generations. With our combined expertise in niche areas of tax, trust, property and agricultural law, we guide clients through the process of handing ownership and control of a farm or estate on to the next generation. We are, in essence, expert Farming and Estate Solicitors.
The following is a short guide to some of the trusts commonly used by families, individuals and business owners for asset protection and tax and estate planning purposes, for which Wrigleys has a team of dedicated solicitors with years of knowledge and expertise. Property, cash, investments or policies can be placed in to a trust to be held for your beneficiaries, for example a spouse, children or grandchildren. Such trusts are set up by a person during their lifetime and so different form trusts which are created in wills.
Reviews (3)
Athena Paolo
May 14, 2022
Hollymouse
Feb 19, 2021
Kate Edwards was recommended to my family and Is in October 2018 as a solicitor to help us with an opposition to my application to court of protection to be the deputy for my Mother. I am fully aware of the deep flaws surrounding COP but I'm afraid i found her knowledge and advice was erroneous to say the least. Her lack of trust in what we said and evidence we provided to her was more than evident.
Even after I took advice from the legal department within the government department were i work, of how to proceed, she dismissed it and refused to take this approach. She continued to correspond with the opposing solicitor after we asked her to cease doing so as it served no purpose apart from increasing legal costs for both solicitors. She even helped and advised the opposing solicitor leading up to the day the of the court hearing on the 10/4/19.
On that day, the opposing solicitor even finally admitted to her that he had absolutely no evidence to prove his client's claims, but she made the decision to not act upon this, and bring it to the attention of Judge Anson- and I was dismissed from attending the hearing which i was more than prepared to do. What is even more concerning is that she told me in her own words that the opposing solicitors and his client's 'gravy train' would end at the COP hearing on the 10/4/19 when she manipulated us in to agreeing to a panel deputy prior to the hearing.
We found out on 2/11/20 in what i can only describe as a totally humiliating telephone conversation with Master Howarth at the SCCO, that the 'gravy train' was NOT going to end until our Mother sadly passed away-(which she did on16/1/20)- ultimately costing us even more thousands of pounds in legal costs. He was extremely patronising and critical of Mrs Edwards and stated that we had to pay all the legal fees incurred by the opposing solicitor, as she, rightly or wrongly had agreed to it.
Mrs Edwards did not send my family and I a copy of a court order issued on 10/4/19, which contained ambiguous wording regarding costs-which was open to abuse by the opposing solicitor and his client. As a COP Solicitor i would have expected her to have known this fundamental fact. It is evident now that the opposing solicitor had no knowledge of COP but he still managed to outwit her at every turn and this is simply not good enough.
In the end, we are left feeling that she had more loyalty and trust in an opposing solicitor even though he continually lied to her than she ever had for her own client. Even the panel deputy she sought out stated that she should have personally raised her concerns about his deceit with the SRA. I have tried to contact Mrs Edwards on several occasions for clarification and to bring my concerns to her attention but both she and Wrigleys complaints department have chosen to not respond.
Even after I took advice from the legal department within the government department were i work, of how to proceed, she dismissed it and refused to take this approach. She continued to correspond with the opposing solicitor after we asked her to cease doing so as it served no purpose apart from increasing legal costs for both solicitors. She even helped and advised the opposing solicitor leading up to the day the of the court hearing on the 10/4/19.
On that day, the opposing solicitor even finally admitted to her that he had absolutely no evidence to prove his client's claims, but she made the decision to not act upon this, and bring it to the attention of Judge Anson- and I was dismissed from attending the hearing which i was more than prepared to do. What is even more concerning is that she told me in her own words that the opposing solicitors and his client's 'gravy train' would end at the COP hearing on the 10/4/19 when she manipulated us in to agreeing to a panel deputy prior to the hearing.
We found out on 2/11/20 in what i can only describe as a totally humiliating telephone conversation with Master Howarth at the SCCO, that the 'gravy train' was NOT going to end until our Mother sadly passed away-(which she did on16/1/20)- ultimately costing us even more thousands of pounds in legal costs. He was extremely patronising and critical of Mrs Edwards and stated that we had to pay all the legal fees incurred by the opposing solicitor, as she, rightly or wrongly had agreed to it.
Mrs Edwards did not send my family and I a copy of a court order issued on 10/4/19, which contained ambiguous wording regarding costs-which was open to abuse by the opposing solicitor and his client. As a COP Solicitor i would have expected her to have known this fundamental fact. It is evident now that the opposing solicitor had no knowledge of COP but he still managed to outwit her at every turn and this is simply not good enough.
In the end, we are left feeling that she had more loyalty and trust in an opposing solicitor even though he continually lied to her than she ever had for her own client. Even the panel deputy she sought out stated that she should have personally raised her concerns about his deceit with the SRA. I have tried to contact Mrs Edwards on several occasions for clarification and to bring my concerns to her attention but both she and Wrigleys complaints department have chosen to not respond.
Alicia Boden
Jun 18, 2018
