Meet the Team
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- Employment Law
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- Residential Property
- Wills & Probate
Catherine Ackroyd
Catherine re-joined Walker Foster as a solicitor in the Private Client team in our Barnoldswick office in October 2023, having previously worked as a trainee solicitor with us between 2015 and 2017...
Luca Angarano
Luca received his LL.B Law Degree with honours from the University of Derby and has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives since 2021, specialising in Litigation and Dispute R...
David Barton
David joined the residential conveyancing department at Walker Foster in 2007 as a Solicitor, having qualified in 2003. Based initially at the firm’s Ilkley office, he very quickly became well kn...
Rizzwana Bashir
Rizzwana joined Walker Foster in the Residential Property department in 2020 as a Solicitor, having qualified in 2018. She is based in our Skipton office. During her time in the department, she has...
Fraser Bell
Fraser joined our team in 2021 as a Licensed Conveyancer, having qualified in 2019. He has a wealth of experience in handling conveyancing transactions and has a reputation for being a hardworking,...
Sarah Bright
Sarah started her conveyancing career in 1999 at a large Bradford firm as an input agent. She then moved to a large Leeds firm to work in their remortgage department, but quickly realised her skill...
Sarah Buxton
Sarah re-joined joined Walker Foster and the Family team at the Harrogate office in July 2023, having previously been a Family Solicitor in July 2017 in Skipton. Having qualified in 2005, Sarah stu...
Kelly Chambers
Kelly joined Walker Foster in 2021 as Head of People. She works closely with the business to build organisational and people capability, and to help the business implement its strategy from a peopl...
Claire Collinge
Claire is a Solicitor and a Consultant to the firm who provides help and advice to our clients in all aspects of employment law and HR consultancy. This includes drafting employment contracts, po...
Nick Dent
Nick began his legal career with one of the longest established law firms in the north east of England, qualifying as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in 1993. He served loca...
Kelly Gill
Kelly achieved her LLB and LPC at the University of Huddersfield. After leaving university she worked in a highly regarded Leeds firm in the Commercial and residential property department. In 2015 ...
Ann Hallmark
Ann joined the family team in September 2001 and is based in the Skipton office. She has worked in the legal field since 1987, when she began working for a large international firm in their Londo...
Rachel Hanson
Rachel joined Walker Foster’s Ilkley office in March 2008 as a legal secretary, working in the firm’s Private Client department. Rachel’s potential was spotted very early on and she was quick...
Keith Hardington
Keith joined Walker Foster in 2000 as a Solicitor and became a Partner in 2003. He was Managing Partner for several years and is currently Solicitor and Director working in the corporate/commercial...
Danielle Harps
Danielle joined Walker Foster in June 2023. After obtaining her law degree at Huddersfield University, Danielle did the LLM and graduated in 2012. Following her graduation, she joined Wilsons Solic...
Sue Hartley
Sue joined Walker Foster in 2011 bringing with her over 30 years of legal office experience. She originally came as a Conveyancing Assistant and, although she enjoyed this role immensely, Sue’s a...
Ian Haynes
Ian joined Walker Foster as a Conveyancing Associate in July 2016, having worked for city firms in both Bradford and Leeds. In June 2018, Ian became a Director and Head of Conveyancing. He is based...
Maxine Heppenstall
As Managing Director, Maxine’s role is a full time (non-fee earning/non-client facing) role to enable full concentration on the future development and growth of the firm. Prior to this, Maxine spec...
Katie Hindmarsh
Katie qualified as a solicitor in 2009, having completed an English Literature and Language and Linguistics degree from Leeds University and studying the Post Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Prac...
Katie Ingham
Katie joined Walker Foster as a Solicitor in the Private Client team in February 2022. She qualified as a Solicitor in 2009 after studying Geography at Manchester University, before completing the ...
Laura Kingsberry
Since leaving college in 2007, Laura has worked in Conveyancing. Laura worked as a Conveyancing Assistant until 2016 before starting her career as a conveyancer, whilst studying for her Level 3 in ...
Lee Kirby
Lee qualified as a Chartered Legal Executive in 2017. In 2019 he attended Leicester De Montfort University to complete the GDL and LPC and cross qualified to come a Solicitor in 2022. He has spent ...
Claire Lodge
Claire originally joined Walker Foster in 2017 as a Legal Assistant to a Senior Conveyancing Solicitor from who she has received extensive training in all areas of Conveyancing. She has now progres...
Mariette Marren
Mariette joined the residential conveyancing department at Walker Foster in June 2020 as a Solicitor having completed her undergraduate law degree at Lincoln University. She then went on to do the ...
Sarah Richardson
Sarah joined Walker Foster in December 2021 as a Wills and Probate Executive and is based at the Barnoldswick office. She deals with various aspects in the Private Client Department such as Wills, ...
Simone Robinson
Simone has many years of conveyancing experience and knowledge, having qualified as a Solicitor in 1997. She is very well connected in the local community in and around Ilkley where she has excelle...
Anna Robinson
Anna joined Walker Foster in November 2021 as a solicitor and is based at our Barnoldswick office. She handles various transactions including sales and purchases of freehold, leasehold, new buil...
Stuart Rowland
Stuart joined Walker Foster straight from school in 1982. He trained as a Legal Executive and progressed to Solicitor in 2005 when in the same year he became a partner in the firm. Stuart specialis...
Sara Rutter
Sara joined our team in 2021 as Head of the Family department. She has a wealth of experience in all aspects of family law, having qualified as a solicitor in 1991. Sara specialises in disputes ari...
Jayne Schofield
As her title suggests, Jayne handles the day-to-day operations of the business, making sure that everyone has the necessary tools to carry out their work in a safe, compliant and enjoyable environm...
Cay Schofield
Cay is a Legal Executive. She completed her Law Degree at Leeds Beckett University in 2015 further graduating from Cilex Law school in 2021, specialising in Probate Practice and Conveyancing. Cay i...
Allan Stewart
Since qualifying as a Solicitor in 2004, Allan has concentrated on Property work and therefore has a wealth of experience, knowledge and extremely detailed technical ability in all types of Commerc...
Amelie Thewlis
Amelie qualified as a Solicitor in August 2020 and joined Walker Foster in 2021. Amelie is based at our Ilkley office and deals with all aspects of law in relation to residential conveyancing. She ...
Craig Williams
As Director and Head of Business and Commercial, and Chartered Legal Executive, Craig uses his years of experience to enhance the clients’ experience of buying or selling their premises. A specia...