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01423 368185
Who We Are
The Garfitt Law Partnership LLP is owned by David Garfitt and Sally Robinson. Read below to find out more about their qualifications and experience.
Merger of The Garfitt Law Partnership LLP with Harrowells Solicitors
We are pleased to announce that The Garfitt Law Partnership LLP will be merging with Harrowells Solicitors, with effect from 1st May 2025. We will both will be joining Harrowells and we will continue to look after our clients’ affairs as we are doing now. We are currently contacting our clients and other key professionals to explain the practical arrangements.
We have known the team at Harrowells over many years and they have a similar focus on providing high quality legal advice, very much tailored to the individual. David also practised some years ago at Powell and Young in Pocklington, which subsequently merged with Harrowells in 2013; so there is another connection.
Harrowells has over 120 staff based in York and in a number of market towns across North and East Yorkshire. Our merger means we can offer a wider range of legal advisory services, in addition to those we already provide to our clients. We will also be able to draw on the wider resources of a larger practice and so ensure holiday cover and additional support when required.
Those clients who valued the convenience of meeting us in Harrogate and Nidderdale will still be able to do so after our merger. You can find out more about Harrowells Solicitors by visiting their website at www.harrowells.co.uk
You can contact us via our usual telephone numbers and email addresses and can continue to do so for a period of time after the merger.
David Garfitt
David was born in Norfolk and grew up in Lincolnshire moving to Yorkshire in 1990. David qualified as a Solicitor in 1991 and has always practised in firms with a strong private client and agricultural client base, having been a partner at Powell & Young (now Harrowells), Pocklington and Langleys Solicitors LLP, York.
He is regarded as a leader in his field, technically very able and with specialist expertise in private client and agricultural law. David also has a wealth of experience and knowledge of other areas of legal work which overlap private client work, for example, residential and agricultural property, commercial and family work, which enables him to provide all-round sound, commercial and pragmatic advice.
David has been a member of The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) since 2007.
Under Sheriff of North Yorkshire
David was appointed the Under Sheriff of North Yorkshire in 2013 and has been re-appointed to that position every year since. He performs a supporting role for the High Sheriff of the County and, amongst his other duties, has responsibility for organising the North Eastern Circuit’s Annual Legal Service at York Minster.
Sally Robinson
Sally was born and brought up in Harrogate and educated at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Having trained at City of London firm, Slaughter and May, she qualified as a Solicitor in 1989 and moved back to Yorkshire in 1991, first to Booth & Co (now Addleshaw Goddard) in Leeds spending 6 years carrying out commercial property work and then to Denison Till (now Lupton Fawcett) in York where she spent 15 years as a partner and head of the property department. Latterly, she has headed the residential property department for a firm in Harrogate.
Sally’s roots are firmly in Yorkshire where she has built up a loyal client base acting in a wide range of property transactions, both commercial and residential, often dealing with highly complex and complicated matters. Her experience and technical expertise are second to none. Sally has acted for many farming and rural clients handling their property transactions or providing specialist property advice, whether they are running a farming business or just looking for a rural retreat.
DD: 01423 368288
The Garfitt Law Partnership LLP is a limited liability partnership, registered in England and Wales, No OC426226. Registered office: Sandhouse Cottage, Dacre, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG3 4AF. Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, No 657379
Members: David Anthony Garfitt, Solicitor and Sally Ann Robinson, Solicitor
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