Jacky Starling > TV Edwards Solicitors LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
TV Edwards Solicitors LLP Offices
18 St John's Road
SW11 1PN
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Jacky Starling
Work Department
Social Welfare
Position
Senior Partner – Joint Head of Social Welfare
Career
Jacky has been with the firm since joining as a trainee in 1993. She qualified as a solicitor in 1995. Jacky mixes casework with supervision and management. She is passionate about the provision of high quality, holistic legal advice and representation, publicly funded wherever possible. She acts as duty solicitor on possession days in both Bow County Court and the Stratford Housing Centre. She also sits as a part-time Tribunal Judge (Social Security).
Jacky specialises in all areas of housing law, particularly defending possession proceedings, brought on grounds of rent arrears and anti-social behaviour; succession cases; housing benefit issues;applications to suspend warrants of eviction and for re-entry; disrepair; and homelessness matters. Jacky also undertakes community care law, especially where there is an overlap with housing law, including obtaining legal redress for those who can have no recourse to public funds, who have children in need and or who require aids and adaptations. She is listed in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
Memberships
- Housing Law Practitioners’ Association
Lawyer Rankings
London > Public sector > Administrative and public law
Harnessing crossover specialisms in housing and Court of Protection work, TV Edwards Solicitors LLP has been successful in numerous challenges of local authority social services departments, including those concerning emergency accommodation and care services. Katie Brown jointly leads the social welfare department with senior partner Jacky Starling; they provide extensive expertise in housing and community care law. Jenny Mansell and Monica Kreel are noted at associate level.
London > Real estate > Social housing: tenant
The social welfare and public law department at TV Edwards Solicitors LLP, co-led by Jacky Starling, draws on a range of specialisms within the practice to offer a holistic approach to clients’ social housing mandates. The team specialises in homelessness and disrepair cases, as well as community care and Court of Protection matters. ‘Exceptionally intelligent and pragmatic’ practice co-head Katie Brown is often instructed by the Official Solicitor to act in possession and injunction proceedings; the firm has noted a growing need for representation in possession proceedings for both social housing and private tenants, and in anti-social behaviour injunction proceedings.
London > Private client > Court of protection
TV Edwards Solicitors LLP has ‘very committed lawyers who are able to give sound legal advice and manage clients with challenging cases with ease’. It is co-led by Jacky Starling and Katie Brown. The group has particular expertise in dealing with matters of abuse, neglect and deprivations of liberty.
Lawyer Rankings
- Social housing: tenant London > Real estate
- Court of protection London > Private client
- Administrative and public law London > Public sector