Our People

David Rose

Department: Family Law

Email: david.rose@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Despite the effects of an Essex Boarding School and University at Leicester, David is a Norwich man born and bred.

He qualified in October 1980, after completing his training at Overbury Steward and Eaton in Norwich, where he discovered his love for Family Law. His first job post qualification was a short stint with Howes Percival in Northampton as a Civil Litigator, but the call of Norfolk and of Family Law was too strong.

He joined Hood Vores & Allwood for the first time in 1983 as an Assistant in the Litigation Department working with Oliver Frankl and Barry (now District Judge) Rutland, but left after 18 months to become a Partner at Howard Killin and Bruce in Great Yarmouth. In both posts he worked on all types of litigation cases.

In 1991, the chance came up to return to Dereham and he grabbed it quickly. He has practised almost entirely in Family Law since 1994, though he has also done Professional Negligence, Housing and Licensing cases.

His time away from the office has mainly been spent playing or watching sport. He is a keen Norwich City fan, having first been to Carrow Road aged six, sitting on his father's knee. He has been a single-figure golfer, and a fine club cricketer having captained Norwich Wanderers CC (now Norwich < Coltishall Wanderers CC) for 5 years.

His main sporting prowess however can be seen as an umpire on the hockey pitch and he regularly officiates in the England Hockey League as one of the top 50 umpires in England.

More recently, David has been spending his time as a family man after the birth of his daughter Maddie in May 2008, 24 years after the birth of his son Phillip.

David was elected as President of the Norfolk and Norwich Law Society for 2009.

Sally Kiddle Morris

Department: Property

Email: sally.kiddlemorris@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Sally Kiddle Morris joined the firm in 1983 having completed her training to become a Solicitor at Westhorpe Ward & Catchpole in Suffolk, the county in which Sally was born and where she lived until joining the firm.    Sally was a school governor at a Litcham High School for 23 years, and was Secretary to the Dereham District Chamber of Trade for 6 years and for 3 years she acted as mentor to the Princes Youth Business Trust.

Sally is married with 3 children and lives in Litcham. She enjoys reading, walking, cooking and equestrian.

Sally is the head of the firm’s property team.

Jeremy Whigham

Department: Wills, Tax and Probate

Email: jeremy.whigham@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Jeremy Francis Whigham has been a Solicitor since 1972.  He joined the firm as a Partner in 1998. He had previously worked as a sole practitioner in Dereham, previously having spent 7 years at Steele & Co in Diss and 20 years working in central London before that. His many interests include classical music, opera, travel and photography. Jeremy lives near Swaffham and has done for the past 14 years. He has two grown up daughters.

Jeremy specialises in Private Client work, particularly trusts and estates and is the Aylsham office Partner.

Roger Margand

Department: Business and Commercial Law

Email: roger.margand@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Roger Margand qualified as a Solicitor in 1996 and became a Partner in the firm in April 2003. He is something of a movie fanatic, enjoys reading, visiting the theatre and has a deep and abiding passion for music, whether recording or playing live with his band.

Roger is the Chairman of the boards of the Dereham Watton and Holt Citizens Advice Bureau and of the Free School Norwich. He is also an active governor on the board of two other local schools and a Princes Youth Business Trust mentor. He advises a range of businesses and not for profit organisations on all aspects of Commercial Property and Business Law and heads up the firm's Commercial Department.

He is married and has two children.

Sarb Gosal

Department: Employment Law & Family Law

Email: sarb.gosal@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Sarb Gosal who was born and educated in West Yorkshire joined the firm as a Trainee Solicitor in September 2001 and qualified in October 2003. Sarb then became an Associate in April 2007 and a Partner in April 2012. Sarb has served as School Governor at a special needs school in Dereham. His interests include sport, especially football (and his beloved Everton FC), and cricket. Sarb is married with one child and lives in Dereham.

Sarb specialises in family law and is a qualified collaborative lawyer and is an accredited specialist member of Resolution an organisation of family lawyers committed to dealing with Family Law issues in a constructive and non-confrontational way.

Sarb also specialises in Employment Law and is the Partner responsible for practice development and marketing.

Sarb is also the Vice President of the Norfolk and Norwich Law Society.

Ruth Collings

Department: Wills, Tax and Probate

Email: ruth.collings@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Ruth Collings joined the firm as a Trainee Solicitor in September 2006. She qualified as a Solicitor in 2008.  Ruth studied for her law degrees at Exeter University before going to York to complete the Legal Practice Course.

Ruth's interests centre around music. She is a member of various choirs in Norfolk and further afield and can often be heard doing solo performances. Ruth also enjoys watching stand up comedy and attending the theatre.

Ruth is an Associate Solicitor in the Private Client department.

Damian Fisher

Department: Wills, Tax and Probate

Email: damian.fisher@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Damian Fisher joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 2008 and qualified as a Solicitor in 2011.

He studied Modern History and Politics at the University of Liverpool before completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Law at the University of East Anglia, and the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in Bloomsbury.

He is a proud father who enjoys photography, film, comedy and theatre. He is Trustee of the Pre-School Music Association, a registered charity which promotes music making and sharing, with babies, pre-school children and their parents and carers.

Damian is an assistant Solicitor in the Private Client department.

Damian is a member of Solicitors for the Elderly

Ann Richards

Department: Property

Email: ann.richards@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Ann Richards has worked at the firm since 1997, she is a Conveyancing Executive in the firm's property team based at Dereham.

Her interests include horse riding, her dogs and travelling. She was born in Norwich and has lived in Norfolk her whole life. Ann is married and lives in Lyng.

Kerry Harbord

Department: Property

Email: kerry.harbord@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Kerry Harbord (formerly Kerry Latimer) started her working career in July 2004 having left Notre Dame 6th form in Norwich at the age of 18. She worked as a legal Secretary in Aylsham for Solicitor Cedric Brown for 12 months with Hood Vores & Allwood then acquiring his practice in July 2005.

Kerry has worked determinedly to progress her career with the firm beginning her employment as a junior Secretary to having qualified as an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in September 2010.

She now works as a full time Conveyancer in the Aylsham office, having spent time in Dereham to further her knowledge and experience before taking the reigns at Aylsham.  Kerry continues to study hard with a view to practising as a Fellow of ILEX in the near future.

Kerry's hobbies include playing bass guitar in her local band, and singing in her Church choir, whilst taking a keen interest in football and Formula 1. Kerry was born in Norwich and lives with her husband and step-son in Aylsham.

Jo Rumbal

Department: Wills, Tax and Probate

Email: joanne.rumbal@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Jo Rumbal joined the firm in September 2011 as a Trainee Solicitor. Having started her life in Suffolk, Jo went on to study a Law Degree at the University of Huddersfield and the Legal Practice Course at BPP in Leeds.

Jo returned to Norfolk in 2010 when she worked as a Private Client legal Secretary before joining the firm.

Her interests are socialising, watching films, cycling and swimming.

Lauretta Pilch

Department: Business and commercial law

Email: lauretta.pilch@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Lauretta Pilch joined the firm in October 2012 as a trainee solicitor. She first came to the firm in November 2010 for legal experience after finishing her International Law masters at Oxford Brookes University.

Born in Nigeria and largely educated in the UK Lauretta went to America to study and obtain her BA and BSc degrees. She then moved to London to study the graduate diploma in law at BPP before going on to do the Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice in Oxford.

Since her experience with us Lauretta has settled in Norwich, married and is now the proud mother of Nathanael. She enjoys going for country walks, having a pub meal, watching period dramas and more recently watching her husband play cricket at Barton Turf.

Linda Jackson

Department: Wills, Tax and Probate

Email: linda.jackson@hoodvoreslaw.co.uk

Linda Jackson joined the firm in June 2006 as a Secretary in the Private Client department. She decided to study to become a specialist paralegal in wills, probate and administration and qualified in early 2011.

Linda's hobbies include dog walking, knitting and cooking. She lives in Dereham with her husband and numerous pets.