Stuart Hughes > Greene & Greene > Bury St Edmunds, England > Lawyer Profile
Greene & Greene Offices
80 GUILDHALL STREET
BURY ST EDMUNDS
IP33 1QB
England
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Stuart Hughes
Work Department
Family
Position
Partner, Head of Family team.
Career
Qualified 1995; partner Curwens LLP 2003-13; partner Greene & Greene 2013 to date; publications include ‘Fact Finding Hearings: Who Pays?’ in Family Law Week.
Stuart is an accredited family law specialist, mediator and collaborative lawyer, and head of the Family Team whose work includes acting in divorce and financial remedy cases for a broad spectrum of high-net-worth clients, including farmers/landowners and directors/business owners. He acts in complex Children Act disputes, including successfully representing clients in cases where there have been serious issues requiring resolution by discrete fact-finding hearings. Stuart advises on nuptial agreements and cohabitation agreements. He has considerable success in acting for both claimants and defendants in TLATA claims and Schedule 1 financial provision cases.
Memberships
SRA Family Law Panel; Resolution.
Education
Meridian School, Royston; Plymouth University; College of Law, Guildford.
Leisure
Minis rugby coach and rugby Dad.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Private client > Family
(Leading individuals)The family law practice at Greene & Greene in Bury St Edmunds is ‘small but industrious, effective, and provides a very high-quality service‘. Practice head Stuart Hughes is ‘extremely bright but very down to earth’, and he is supported by key partner Melanie Pilmer, who handles cross-jurisdictional issues, particularly involving Scotland. ‘Cool, calm and collected’ associate and Resolution member Emma Alfieri ‘provides sensible, insightful and helpful advice‘. The firm handles national as well as regional family work, including high-value matters involving assets in excess of £30m.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in East Anglia
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: elsewhere in East Anglia