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TV Edwards Solicitors LLP Offices
35-37 Mile End Road
LONDON
E1 4TP
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Jacky Starling
Work Department
Social Welfare
Position
Senior Partner – Joint Head of Social Welfare
Career
Jacky has been with the firm since joining as a trainee in 1993. She qualified as a solicitor in 1995. Jacky mixes casework with supervision and management. She is passionate about the provision of high quality, holistic legal advice and representation, publicly funded wherever possible. She acts as duty solicitor on possession days in both Bow County Court and the Stratford Housing Centre. She also sits as a part-time Tribunal Judge (Social Security).
Jacky specialises in all areas of housing law, particularly defending possession proceedings, brought on grounds of rent arrears and anti-social behaviour; succession cases; housing benefit issues;applications to suspend warrants of eviction and for re-entry; disrepair; and homelessness matters. Jacky also undertakes community care law, especially where there is an overlap with housing law, including obtaining legal redress for those who can have no recourse to public funds, who have children in need and or who require aids and adaptations. She is listed in both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
Memberships
- Housing Law Practitioners’ Association
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Social housing: tenant
Katie Brown chairs the social welfare and public law team at TV Edwards Solicitors LLP, which has broad-ranging expertise across possession proceedings involving allegations of anti-social behaviour, rent arrears, and sub-letting, disrepair mandates, and homelessness cases. The practice benefits from the firm’s wider knowledge of Court of Protection matters and community care, which are often overlapping with social housing cases. Jacky Starling and Emily Black are also key names within the department.