Huddersfield law firm Ridley and Hall have promoted three of their solicitors to partners. On 1st October James Cook, Meena Kumari and Sue Cash joined Nigel Priestley (Senior Partner) and Sarah Young (Managing Partner) to make up a new partnership team.

Nigel Priestley said ” Sarah and I are delighted to welcome three new partners. Meena and James are committed to building on the firm’s strong commitment to legally aided work. Both specialise in the complex and demanding area of family law. Sue is a very experienced solicitor and Notary with an expertise in wills and probate, who is developing our local presence in this area of law.”

Ridley and Hall has become a local firm with a national presence, having succeeded in winning a number of ground breaking cases nationally in recent years in community care, judicial review and kinship care law. The firm has won Yorkshire Lawyer Specialist Law firm of the year awards in 2006 and 2008. Nigel Priestley was highly commended in the national Law Society awards in 2008 and Sarah Young has been awarded Best Woman Solicitor managing a small practice by the Association of Women Solicitors in September.