Carole Atkinson > Weightmans LLP > Liverpool, England > Lawyer Profile
Weightmans LLP Offices

100 OLD HALL STREET
LIVERPOOL
L3 9QJ
England
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Carole Atkinson

Position
Carole is a partner in the Private Client team at Weightmans. Recognised in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame, she has practised as a family lawyer for over 35 years and was appointed as Deputy District Judge in 2001.
Carole has acted for many high profile individuals with significant assets. She has particular expertise in dealing with cases involving onshore and offshore trusts as well as complex corporate and tax issues in cases where the assets are worth many millions. She has considerable experience in drafting prenuptial agreements particularly those involving cross border issues. She is recognised for her extensive knowledge and experience, her exceptional client care skills and her pragmatic approach to family dispute resolution.
Carole is consistently recommended and recognised in Legal Directories: Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners as a leader in her field. She has been described as a family lawyer who “makes the so-called ‘magic circle’ firms look ordinary.” Her clients have included household names as well as fellow professionals. Many of her clients are recommended to her by QCs and other lawyers and professionals.
She regularly lectures and writes articles on topical family law issues and has appeared on radio and television to discuss and to advise on family law issues and recent developments. Her approach to family law is a sensitive yet proactive approach to dispute resolution with the aim of achieving a successful outcome for each client in a cost-effective manner.
Carole is recognised as a “Top Recommended” family lawyer for high-net-worth individuals in The Spear’s Family Law Index 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Private client > Family
(Hall of Fame)The family team at Weightmans LLP consists of ‘extremely capable individuals‘ who collaborate closely with the tax and private client team to provide a full-service offering to clients experiencing a relationship breakdown or seeking wealth protection advice. The group has broad expertise in finance matters, such as pre and post-nuptial agreements, inherited wealth, and offshore trusts, combined with extensive knowledge in complex children work, including abduction, surrogacy, and cross-border cases. In Manchester, practice head Emma Collins is ‘a truly excellent solicitor with brilliant client care skills’ and she is an expert in financial remedy and cohabitation claims, including those involving offshore trusts, and the ‘highly respected‘ Fiona Turner has an international family law practice that encompasses wealth protection, divorce, and children matters. The Liverpool-based group includes ‘excellent family lawyer’ Fiona Davidson, who specialises in divorce, financial settlements, and children law issues arising from relationship breakdowns, Carole Atkinson, who has expertise in cases relating to family businesses and complex pension issues, and Rachel Lim, who ‘has a wealth of knowledge‘ in both financial and children matters with a particular interest in issues relating to modern family law such as surrogacy and co-parenting agreements.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Public sector > Education
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Private client > Family
- Public sector > Health
- Transport
- Employment > Pensions
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Liverpool
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Health and safety
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Public sector > Local government
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Social housing
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Liverpool
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Liverpool
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Transport
- Real estate > Construction
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime: general crime and fraud
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester