Nicola Wallace

Date of Call 2006

 

 

RANGE OF EXPERIENCE          

Following a successful 15 year career as a Solicitor specialising in Family Law, Nicola transferred to the Bar in 2006.

QUALIFICATIONS

1986:    Diplome Programme de Civilisation Francaise et Europeene Contemporaine
1988:    BA (Hons) Law and French, Oxford Brookes University
1989:    Solicitors Finals
1991:    Admitted as a solicitor
2006:    Called to the Bar

Law Society Prize:  
Innes and Howard Watson Prize for Family and Welfare Law.

 

CAREER PATH

Nicola graduated in 1989.  Since qualifying as a Solicitor, Nicola has specialised in all aspects of Family Law.  In her early career, she undertook a wide range of private and publicly funded matters and during her time in Nottingham she was one of the principal advisers to Women’s Aid.  Nicola moved to Oxford in 1996 and continued and developed her family law practice.  She was made a Partner in 1998.  In recent years her practice has centred on private ancillary relief work and private law children matters.

 

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

Her professional practice has covered: 

• All aspects of ancillary relief
• Disputes between cohabitees
• Private law children cases  
• Adoption
• Applications pursuant to Family Law Act 1996
• Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 matters
• Child Support Act 1991 matters

OTHER

• Accredited lecturer for Resolution (formerly Solicitors Family Law Association)
• Author of Resolution course: "Advocacy for Solicitors - Getting the Edge"
• Member of the Inner Temple
• Member of FLBA