Who's who at Merrony Wall

Family Law Department

  • Anne-Lise Wall

    Anne-Lise is a founding partner of the firm, having qualified in 1980. She is a member of the Law Society Family Law Panel and specialises in financial issues arising on divorce or separation, together with complex children cases. She is an experienced and accredited Mediator and has trained in Collaborative Law. Anne-Lise is a member of Resolution and adopts a non-adversarial approach to resolving family disputes.

  • Anne-Marie Keady

    Anne-Marie qualified in 2002 having read Law and French at Leeds. She joined Merrony Wall in 2004 and undertakes all aspects of Family Law cases. She is also a member of Resolution.

  • Rachel Thomas

    Rachel has a degree in Law and French and she joined the firm as a paralegal in 2002. After completing her training contract with us, Rachel qualified in 2005. She now deals mainly with domestic violence cases and children’s matters.

Litigation Department

  • Antony Marquis

    Antony joined the firm in 2001 having qualified in 1990. He has extensive knowledge and experience of general and commercial litigation, employment law and debt recovery together with partnership disputes and contentious probate matters. Antony is also a commercial pilot and works part time as a consultant to the firm.

    Antony has now qualified as a commercial mediator helping people resolve disputes without the costs and delays of court proceedings.

Property Department

  • Sonia Bhalla

    Sonia qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and joined us in 2005. She deals with buying and selling houses, flats and commercial property. She deals with re-mortgages and transfers of equity and her practice is to foster good communication with clients, keeping them fully appraised of their transaction and reporting regularly to the agents. She understands the stress involved in moving and is very sympathetic to her clients.

  • Priya Patel

    Priya completed an LLB Law and European Studies degree at Surrey University in 2005, which included a six month study placement in Madrid. Following completion of the Legal Practice Course in London, she joined the firm as a Trainee Solicitor. She has a keen interest in Spanish Law and is proficient in Spanish.

Wills and Probate

  • Anne-Lise Wall heads this department and is assisted by Priya who also undertakes the preparation of Enduring Powers of Attorney for clients.

The Admin Team

  • Kerry Dobinson

    Kerry is the Practice Manager and Financial Controller.

  • Lesley Sherrington

  • Jenny Chaplin

    Lesley and Jenny are the firm’s legal secretaries and support the departments helping us deliver a professional and effective service to our clients.

  • Kay Barnes

    Kay is our receptionist dealing with telephone calls and making appointments. She is always happy to take messages should the person called be unavailable.