team: Lawyers

Trusha Lukha

Trusha recently joined the Commercial team at rhw, working alongside Nick Richardson and Brian Shacklady. She currently works in Commercial Property.   Previously Trusha has been a partner in a practice specialising in Residential Property and Civil Litigation including Family matters and PI claims. She has experience in business management as well as managing risk […]

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Winifred (Winnie) Mbieli

Specialism Aviation Civil disputes Winnie is a Solicitor in the Dispute Resolution team at rhw having joined the firm in May 2022 upon qualifying as a solicitor. Winnie is an enthusiastic civil practitioner who recently qualified dealing with Regulation (EC) 261/2004 claims on behalf of airline clients (involving denied boarding, delayed, or cancelled flights), including […]

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Serena (Shanni) Sandhu

Serena (Shanni) is an Associate within our Family Department. She offers a holistic service to all clients seeking legal advice in matters relating to pre/post nuptial agreements, divorce, finance settlement, cohabitation, separation, non-molestation order, occupation order, and children’s disputes. She is sharp, knowledgeable and determined with a no-nonsense approach and where possible tries to seek […]

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Lyssa Reeve

Lyssa Reeve works as an Associate Solicitor in the Dispute Resolution & Employment team at rhw, alongside Stephen Bottomley and Katrina Burrows. Lyssa advises on a variety of matters covering civil, commercial, employment and property disputes. Previously Lyssa worked as a paralegal in-house for Foxtons PLC, after finishing her law degree and for the Serious […]

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Jessica Pope

Jessica is a solicitor in the Private Client department at rhw. Jessica qualified in July 2019, having previously spent time as a family paralegal and gaining experience in other contentious areas of law before discovering a passion for private client work during her training contract. She works alongside her colleagues in the Private Client Team […]

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Richard Middlehurst

Richard is a widely known local solicitor with over thirty years of experience in Family Law. He is a Law Society accredited specialist in Family Law and a partner at rhw. He specializes in all aspects of Family Law including Civil Partnerships and cases involving unmarried couples. This covers disputes over money and/or disputes involving […]

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Hannah Gibbons

After joining rhw for work experience in the Summer of 2018, Hannah was a trainee solicitor for the firm and is now a senior paralegal pending qualification as a solicitor. Having attained a 2:1 in Classical Literature and Civilisation from the University of Birmingham, Hannah has also completed the Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP […]

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Stephen Bottomley

Stephen is a partner at rhw and leads our Dispute Resolution team where he is able to advise on a variety of matters covering civil, commercial and property disputes. Stephen’s clients include a broad range of SMEs and individuals. Stephen attended the University of Sheffield and qualified as a solicitor in 2013, having trained with a mid-sized City […]

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Richard Benny

Profile Richard practices employment law and has a particular interest in Age Discrimination. Richard is a keen advocate and regularly represents clients at Employment Tribunals. He has taught the law of tort, employment and discrimination on the LLB programmes, and was the Director of the LLM in Employment Law at Surrey University. He has taught [...]
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Nick Richardson

Profile Nick has been in practice since 1984 and heads up our company and commercial services team. He deals with private company work and general commercial law matters including joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, commercial agreements and buying and selling businesses (whether through the sale of assets or shares of a company). He also has substantial experience of commercial property matters [...]
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Elizabeth Leah

Profile Elizabeth Leah joined the family team at rhw Solicitors LLP on 3 January 2012, from a leading law firm in Sussex. Elizabeth has over 25 year’s experience. She has worked for clients in Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, London, elsewhere in England and has international clients notably in France, the US, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Dubai and [...]
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Brian Shacklady

Profile Brian qualified as a solicitor in 1977 after graduating from Cambridge. He was with a City firm for 12 years where he was a commercial property partner and latterly headed up the commercial property department of another Surrey law firm. He joined rhw at the beginning of 2004 as a partner and specialises in commercial [...]
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Alice Ryder

Profile Having gained a 1st Class Honours Degree in Law at the University of Surrey, Alice went on to study the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at the University of Law in Guildford, on a part-time basis, alongside working at rhw. Alice qualified as a solicitor in 2020. She achieved truly exceptional marks and won three [...]
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