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Vicky Medd

Vicky Medd


Partner
Department: Family & Matrimonial
UK Recommended Lawyer 2025

Vicky Medd is head of our Huddersfield and Barnsley teams. She is a solicitor with over 30 years of experience exclusively in family work. She specialises particularly on finances within divorce proceedings, and has a lot of experience of dealing with small and medium sized business assets, disputes about matrimonial and non matrimonial assets and pre nuptial agreements. She is a Resolution Accredited Specialist specialising in finances and children.

Vicky has a lot of experience of dealing with narcissistic relationships, and her experience enables her to help clients navigate through difficult legal proceedings. Vicky always try to resolve cases with the minimum of costs to clients, but the best outcomes. She gives sensible, practical and pragmatic advice but is very down to earth and sensitive to the difficulties that clients are going through at what is one of the most difficult times of their lives.

As a family mediator Vicky works with couples to try and achieve agreed outcomes that work for both of them, and tries hard to navigate clients through complex financial negotiations. Vicky is a member of the Family Mediators Association. She is also a Foundation Training Course Assessor for the Family Mediation Council.

Vicky is also the first solicitor in Huddersfield and Barnsley to train as a Resolution Together solicitor providing our Working Together: Divorce & Separation with ‘One couple, One Lawyer’ service. She recognises that a lot of clients want to work together to achieve outcomes that suit them both, but that they may want advice on difficult areas together. There is a rigorous scoping procedure for these cases, but Vicky has had 100% positive outcomes on these cases in the last two years.

Vicky is married with two grown up children. She loves walking her two golden retrievers Ringo and Rolo, who love nothing more than a wallow in a muddy puddle. She is also a director on the New College Collaborative Trust board and is the SEND director.


Family & Matrimonial Team

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Corinne  Barnett

Solicitor
Corinne is a Solicitor in our family department working at our Huddersfield office....
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Tamara Dove-O'Hara

Associate Solicitor
Tamara is an associate solicitor handling all aspects of family law including divorce, financial settlements, child applications, and injunctions....
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Zarqa Farouq

Paralegal
Zarqa is a Paralegal in our family team, representing a range of clients in divorce, financial remedy and private children matters....
Shelley Harper

Shelley Harper

Associate,
Solicitor
Shelley joined Ridley & Hall Solicitors in 2020 and is a Solicitor in our family department having qualified in 2018. Shelley completed her Law Degree at Sheffield Hallam University and continued her studies at BPP University Law School in Leeds....
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Emma Hopkins Jones

Partner,
Solicitor
Emma joined Ridley & Hall as a Partner in September 2020, bringing with her extensive experience as a family law specialist....

Emma Pearmaine

Managing Director
Emma Pearmaine is our Managing Director, winner of the Yorkshire Law Awards Managing Partner of the Year Award 2020. Emma is very proud to have supported our people to win Yorkshire Law Awards Small Law Firm of the Year Award 2019 and to be shortlisted for the same award in 2020....
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Maryam Razzaq

Trainee Solicitor
Maryam Razzaq is a trainee in the Family Team at Ridley and Hall. In 2024, she was named Trainee Solicitor of the Year at the Yorkshire Legal Awards, recognising her commitment and achievements early in her career....
Karen Roberts

Karen Roberts

Partner
Karen Roberts has well over 20 years practice experience as a Family Solicitor and has a warm, and approachable style. She undertakes all areas of Family Law work, representing individuals facing difficult children’s issues, domestic abuse concerns and divorces/separations involving the resolution of financial issues. She represents parents and grandparents in care proceedings brought by the Local Authority and where family and children’s placements have broken down. ...
Zuzanna Taithe

Zuzanna Taithe

Associate,
Solicitor
Since August 2019, Zuza has worked as a Paralegal in Ridley & Hall Solicitors’ Residential and Commercial Property Teams and, subsequently, as a Legal Secretary in the Care and Public Team, having previous experience in the firm as a placement student. Zuza has been awarded a Training Contract at Ridley & Hall, which commenced in July 2021. ...
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Clare Wilson

Solicitor
Clare is a dedicated and experienced solicitor in our family department based in our Barnsley office. Clare specialises in private family law matters, including divorce, financial settlements, cohabitation disputes, and arrangements for children. ...