Appointments: Advocate joins Sheffield specialist family law team

Law firm Irwin Mitchell has added to its specialist family law team in Yorkshire by appointing an experienced family advocate.

Zoe Round joins the team in Sheffield as a legal executive advocate after spending the last nine years working as a specialist in resolving financial disputes as well as disputes over children and cases of domestic violence.

She is also a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.

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Neil Bradburne has been appointed managing partner of Yorkshire Bank's Doncaster Financial Solutions Centre (FSC) – becoming one of the youngest managing partners in the bank's 70-strong FSC network.

Mr Bradburne joined Yorkshire Bank in 1994 on a graduate scheme after it sponsored him to study financial services at Sheffield Hallam University. He started as a cashier at The Moor branch in Sheffield and worked up to regional manager before joining Yorkshire Bank's South Yorkshire FSC, Sheffield, where he became senior partner in 2007.

Chadwick Lawrence has appointed Graham Cox who will work from the Huddersfield office of the firm alongside Sarah Haller, who is the manager of the conveyancing department.

Mr Cox spent 20 years at Reads of Bradford, and 10 years at Last Cawthra Feather, which has offices in Leeds, Bradford, Shipley and Ilkley.

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Howells Solicitors, in Sheffield, has expanded its team of specialist clinical negligence lawyers with the recruitment of senior solicitor Michelle Gyte.

She has nine years experience of clinical negligence work following completion of her law degree at Sheffield Hallam University and her legal practice course at Sheffield University.

Tom Mellor, co-founder and owner of Yorkshire's Wold Top Brewery has

been elected as a council member for SIBA (Society of Independent Brewers) North.

Wold Top Brewery, based in Driffield, East Yorkshire, produces real ales using traditional brewing methods.