TV Edwards Solicitors LLP

https://tvedwards.com/person/lee-giles/

Solicitor

Lee has been working within family law since 2014 whereby he started running his own caseload of family files in a busy high street office as a paralegal prior to qualifying as a Solicitor in 2018. He joined the Family Finance team at TV Edwards in 2024.

Lee’s focus is always on the client and how best to approach their legal issue on account of their needs, individual circumstances and own personal priorities concerning their desired outcome.

Lee is a member of Resolution which commits to the management of family issues in a non-confrontation and amicable manner. As a result, Lee is very keen to settle matters wherever possible and recognises the effect that Court proceedings have on his client’s which go over and above merely cost implications.

However, Lee as with any good Family Lawyer respects that in certain instances an application to the Court or other adjudicated process is the best avenue forward for the client when for example the other party is being unreasonable, failing to accurately disclose their financial position or there is a particular novel legal issue involved.

Given the clear and well understood drawbacks in making an application to Court (loss of control, costs risks, emotional stress, time delay, effect on children, etc) Lee is keen to explore other methods of dispute resolution with his clients when it becomes clear that a binding adjudication (not necessarily from a Judge) is required. For example, parties can agree to engage Arbitration or a Private Financial Dispute Resolution hearing via agreement.

Lee is an experienced and competent advocate, he is therefore able to represent his own client’s at Court at certain hearings when it is suitable to do so according to the circumstances of the individual case. This avoids the automatic need to instruct a barrister.

Member of Resolution Law Society of England and Wales.