Helen Tucker > Stone King LLP > Bath, England > Lawyer Profile
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Upper Borough Walls
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Helen Tucker
Work Department
Education
Position
Head of Independent Schools Team
Career
Helen advises independent schools on a range of issues including strategic review papers for trustees, handling complex safeguarding and child protection cases, educational negligence claims, allegations of discrimination and Equality Act issues, school parent contracts, policy reviews and data protection issues.
Prior to joining Stone King, Helen was Head of the Education Sector Team at Ashfords solicitors, and Head of Legal for The Girls’ Day School Trust. Helen has also been Chair of Governors at a school in Bristol.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Public sector > Education
(Leading individuals)Stone King LLP is turned to by a broad range of educational institutions on issues such as academy conversions and transfers, procurement and operational pupil issues. Latterly, the team is advising a growing number of schools on their commercial agreements. The Bath-based team is chaired by Helen Tucker, for whom school groups is a fixture of her practice focus. Her colleague Michael Brotherton handles a growing number of matters pertaining to the Equality Act 2010 while Ciara Campfield advises across schools, further and higher education mandates. Elizabeth Fortin is well versed in matters related to students with education health and care plans.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Public sector > Education
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Employment > Employment: Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate