Rebecca Knight > Wendy Hopkins Family Law Practice > Cardiff, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
Wendy Hopkins Family Law Practice Offices
13 WINDSOR PLACE
CARDIFF
CF10 3BY
United Kingdom
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Rebecca Knight
Work Department
Family Law
Position
Director
Career
Rebecca Knight has been with Wendy Hopkins Family Law Practice since 2011 and qualified as a solicitor in 2014. She has won acclaim for her work on many complex, high-value and high-profile cases developing a strong reputation as an extremely skilled family law practitioner.
Rebecca regularly represents high profile clients with celebrity status and will often utilise alternative forms of resolution away from the Court arena where possible.
Rebecca has been a recommended lawyer by the leading independent researcher The Legal 500 since 2017. She is highly regarded and is often recommended by other professionals in the industry. Rebecca regularly receives excellent client feedback and praise for her work.
An expert in her field, Rebecca Knight has a wide breadth of knowledge providing quality advice on an array of family law issues. This includes financial matters following divorce and separation, cases involving multi-jurisdictional elements, complicated cohabitation and children issues including financial provisions made under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, injunctions, civil partnerships and specialist advice around Surrogacy and Fertility Law. She is an advocate for change in the law surrounding Surrogacy, and recently took part in the Law Commission’s consultation paper for review and reform.
Memberships
- Hockey Wales – Board Member/ Senior Independent Director
- South Wales Ladies Business Club – Organiser
Education
- 2007 – 2010 – Swansea University – LLB (Hons)
- 2010 – 2011 – Cardiff Law School – Cardiff University – LPC
Leisure
In her spare time, Rebecca is a keen amateur photographer and enjoys spending time with her family and young daughter.
Lawyer Rankings
Wales > Private client > Family
(Next Generation Partners)Drawing upon the expertise of a deep bench of lawyers with vast experience in the field, Cardiff-based family law boutique Wendy Hopkins Family Law Practice is recognised as ‘the go-to family law practice in South Wales for any high value/complex financial remedies case’. The ‘extremely experienced and confident’ Melanie Hamer
and Thea Hughes, who ‘inspires confidence in everything she does’, are key to the firm’s success in handling high-profile financial remedy cases, as is the ‘calm and empathetic’ David James , who also handles high-net-worth Schedule 1 Children Act cases. A ‘tenacious negotiator’, Sarah Wyburn delivers her advice with ‘care and precision’, ensuring the best possible outcomes for clients engaged in complex and high-value financial cases, or in the context of civil partnership and same-sex marriages. The team is rounded out at a partner level by the ‘outstanding’ Rebecca Knight , who will ‘always go the extra mile for her clients’, who include professional footballers, in complex financial remedy matters, as well as to clients seeking guidance in relation to surrogacy law.