James Horsey
Director, Solicitor
James is the head of our civil litigation department in our Hereford office and undertakes work in most areas of civil disputes including personal injury, property and boundary disputes, consumer rights matters, landlord and tenant, employment law, professional negligence, inheritance disputes and breach of contract matters.
Jim Lee
Director, Solicitor
Jim Lee heads the Hereford office. He has spent his whole career with Gabbs, having joined in 1977 as a trainee solicitor, after gaining an Honours degree in Law from the University of Central England.
Jennifer Lewis
Director, Chartered Legal Executive (FCilex)
Jenny joined Gabbs in 2015, graduating from Staffordshire University with a Graduate Diploma in Law in 2017, and winning the Worcester Law Society Student of the Year upon Graduation. She qualified as a Chartered Legal Executive in August 2023.
Angela Palliser
Practice Manager
Angela has management experience in several professional services sectors. She is responsible for the financial management of the company and for personnel and other key areas of practice administration.
Jeremy Wilding MBE
Consultant Solicitor & Diocesan Registrar
Jeremy Wilding MBE – Consultant Solicitor & Diocesan Registrar Jeremy Wilding was educated at Hereford Cathedral School. He then read Law at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a choral scholar in the college’s famous choir.
Hannah Dudley
Associate Solicitor
Based in the Hereford office, Hannah joined Gabbs in March 2021 as a Commercial Property Solicitor and, prior to relocating to Hereford, worked for firms of various sizes in Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham.
Fiona Davies
Solicitor
Born and educated in Shrewsbury Shropshire, Fiona studied a law and French degree at Keele University Staffordshire. Fiona lived and worked in France and Canada before moving to Herefordshire.
Navdeep Kaur
Solicitor
Nav is a Solicitor based in our Hereford Office. She deals with Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Administration of Estates, and Court of Protection matters.
Jonathan Skilbeck
Solicitor
Jonathan is a Man of Kent, and following his education at Kent College in Canterbury, graduated from Exeter University with a degree in History and thereafter from the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage with a Master’s degree in Heritage Management.
Sue Godwin
Probate Executive
Based at our Hereford Office, Sue is a probate executive who has worked in our private client team for over 17 years. As a legal PA, she has assisted in helping many hundreds of clients dealing with probate, will drafting and Lasting Powers of Attorney.
Sarah Williams
Paralegal
I joined Gabbs as a Legal Secretary in July 2015 in the Leominster office working for the Private Client department.
Michelle Wilmot
Registry Clerk
As Hereford Diocesan Registry Clerk, Michelle acts as clerk to the Registrar. A background in business with a foreign language, Michelle began her career with a management consultancy firm in London before moving to Hong Kong.
Katy Betambeau
Legal Secretary
Katy started off at Gabbs on a work experience placement and after completing her placement was offered a job as a Legal Secretary, supporting various departments. She now work alongside Jim as his Legal Secretary in the Conveyancing Department.
Anna Golding
Legal Secretary/Administration Assistant
Having relocated from Kent to Hereford in June 2021 joined Gabbs in August 2022 initially started on two days a week on reception and then became full time and worked in the Private Client Team. Now have transferred into Accounts where am now Credit Controller.
Karen Jones
Legal Secretary
Joined Gabbs in 2013 working in the litigation department, and currently provides support to James Horsey in our litigation department.
Karen Lawless
Legal Secretary
Karen has been a Secretary in our Commercial Conveyancing Department since January 2021, although she has been associated with Gabbs since 2003 having worked as a temp around the city when her children were young.
Anita Wallace
Legal Secretary
Anita started working in the legal profession when she left college many years ago and has lived in Herefordshire most of her life.
Danita Harris
Receptionist
Danita one of our two Receptionists at our Hereford office. She started her career with a Youth Opportunity Programme at a lighting company and then moved in to the travel Industry working for when she was 17 years old, where she discovered a love of travel.
Christine Yeomans
Receptionist
Christine started her career in Travel & Tourism. She moved to Hereford from Preston, Lancashire in 1996 where she retrained in Business Administration.
