Sally Powell > Tees Law > Bishop's Stortford, England > Lawyer Profile
Tees Law Offices

Tees House,
95 London Road
BISHOP'S STORTFORD
CM23 3GW
England
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Sally Powell

Work Department
Family
Position
Executive Partner and Head of the Family Team
Sally specialises in financial issues arising from relationship breakdown. Known in the region for advising HNW individuals or their spouses, including cases featuring family businesses, farming families and city high-flyers.
Also advises on complex private law Children Act cases to include the reversal of residence, relocation and leave to remove for the jurisdiction.
Career
Trained at Tees Law; qualified in 2004, partner 2013, executive partner and head of the family department from 2016 onwards.
Memberships
Resolution; accredited specialist finance and children; Law Society Family Law Panel.
Education
BA Hons American Studies and History, University of Hull; Postgraduate Diploma in Law, College of Law, York
Leisure
Sally enjoys sports, travel and her dog.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
The practice at Tees Law is praised by clients for its ‘excellence in legal knowledge and case management’, working out of Bishop’s Stortford. Practice head and ‘leading light‘ Sally Powell is an expert in cases involving agricultural land and farming assets, while Helen Midgley, promoted to partner in April 2024, is a mediator offering the one lawyer two clients model across financial and children matters. James Scarborough is adept at handling financial disputes and nuptial agreements, while Katie Stewart is a key name for children matters.
South East > Private client > Family: Essex
The team at Tees Law handles the full spectrum of family law issues, is jointly led by Sally Powell in Bishop’s Stortford, the ‘thorough, hard working‘ Joshua Coombe in Chelmsford, and Caroline Andrews in Brentwood. Coombe often advises on high value financial remedy claims, and Andrews is a ‘stand out lawyer’ in the area of surrogacy and fertility law. Lisa Honey is a key name for complex Children Act cases, including those which involve competing allegations of abuse.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx South East > Private client
- Family: Essex South East > Private client
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Essex
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Essex
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Essex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Essex
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Employment > Employment: Essex
- Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Family: Essex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Public sector > Public sector