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Philip Pollecoff

Expertise

Philip is the founder of Pollecoff Solicitors. He specialises in family law and is an advanced member of the Law Society Family Law Panel and a member of Resolution. He favours a personal and practical approach, always taking his clients' objectives into account.

 

He has experience of acting for many city workers including investment bankers, brokers, directors, accountants and lawyers and has worked on many complex financial cases. As a former company secretary he has a good understanding of most businesses.

 

Philip also understands that most families have limited resources and looks for cost effective solutions. In one case where very expensive injunctive proceedings were proposed by a barrister, Philip solved the problem without any expense by making the board pass a resolution to change the bank mandate by adding another signatory.

 

Philip has a good knowledge of conveyancing which is particularly useful when so many family assets are property based. Philip has used his business sense in the past year to accurately predict and advise clients who are dividing assets regarding the fall in the property market.

 

Philip regularly instructs Chancery Counsel to advise on trust and tax issues that arise in a number of family disputes.

 

Philip has developed expertise in disputes regarding wills and is regularly receiving instructions from the Official Solicitor regarding family related work in particular cases under The Inheritance (Provision for Family Dependents) Act 1975. Philip is also as a collaborative lawyer. Philip is a trustee of the Minster Centre, an established charity and training institute offering Diploma and MA programmes He is chair of the Poetry School that teaches the art of writing poetry.

 

Philip is married to Elaine and they have a teenage son Marco.

 

Philip's interests outside work include supporting Liverpool FC, which he describes as a journey of elation and heartbreak, reading modern poetry and going to the occasional rock concert.

 

E-mail
p.pollecoff@pollecoff.com