Val Thomas has been involved in the provision of legal advice and representation in the local community in North London (where she has lived almost all her life) for almost thirty years.
Her practice has, over the years, encompassed various areas of the law including Housing, Crime (including Police Station representation) and Mental Health (including casework for patients of Broadmoor Hospital). During this time Val's extensive experience has enabled her to become a Legal Aid Franchise manager and then to acquire "Supervisor Standard" for CLS Public Funding (formerly known as Legal Aid) purposes. During the 1980s Val was involved in the provision of legal advice to striking miners in Ollerton in the Midlands, and later, clients arrested at Broadwater Farm during the troubles affecting that part of North London.
Val first joined Tyrer Roxburgh & Co as a senior caseworker in 1999 and has supplied expert advice in the field of housing law rights, with a particular emphasis on homelessness, the defence of possession claims and assisting clients to access their legal rights under Community Care legislation. Why Housing? "It is a socially important area of law, allowing ordinary people from a significant yet marginalised and excluded sector of society to exercise their rights".
