Meet the team
Sylvie Penwill
Associate CILEX
Services: Relationship Breakdown
Offices: Weston-Super-Mare, Weston-Super-Mare, Family Law
Tel: 01934 428800
Email: sylvie.penwill@wards.uk.com
Biography
What was your first-ever job?
Assembling parts for a Skoda wing mirror!
Who’s your hero and why?
JK Rowling – love the journey from a broke single parent to being a multi-millionaire all through her own endeavour.
If you were stranded on a desert island, what two luxury items would you take?
Hair straighteners and bottle of Smirnoff vodka.
Specialism
Sylvie deals with all aspects of family law from divorce, financial matters through to children disputes, domestic violence cases and unmarried couples’ separation. Sylvie is a Resolution accredited specialist with particular specialism in Private Children Law matters and Domestic Abuse cases.
Sylvie is on the committee of Standing Together – a group which supports people experiencing domestic abuse who are disadvantaged due to an equalities issue for example their age, disability, gender reassignment , having no recourse to public funds, people trafficking amongst others. Sylvie is also a member of the Women’s Project
Career history
2000 – present: Wards Solicitors