Oliver Gravell
Partner
24-26 Museum Street
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP1 1HZ
Experience
Oliver joined Birketts in 2003. He is a partner and head of our family team.
Oliver has a wealth of experience in high net worth ancillary relief, the welfare of children and co-habitation and prenuptial agreements. Oliver joined our matrimonial team in 2003 from a City firm where he had been a partner and head of the family department since 1998. Since 2003 he has overseen the growth and development of the team which now has two partners, five other fee earners and the assistance of a trainee solicitor. He has expanded the practice and has become a specialist in divorces involving farms. He provides an excellent and personable service to the firm's existing clients as well as servicing new clients in the business sector in East Anglia, and with commuters to London.
Since 2003 Oliver has been involved in the development of Collaborative Law in the UK, being one of the first 13 trained in the technique. He initiated a meeting of interested family lawyers in East Anglia in 2004 and there are now over 40 Collaborative Lawyers in the Region. He continues to sit on the Resolution National Alternative Dispute (ADR) Committee. He subscribes wholeheartedly to the Resolution Code of Practice.
Oliver is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators having completed the Family Law Arbitrator's course in January 2012. He is an inaugural member of the Family Arbitrators Panel and a member of the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (IFLA).
Oliver is based at our Ipswich office.
Other Information
In Chambers [UK 2010], Oliver is ranked as one of only four family lawyers in the region as a 'Band 1' individual and is described as "immensely respected by both peers and clients". Clients comment, "He applies the law to the facts while maintaining his sense of humanity."
In Legal 500 [UK 2010] he is described as "one of the region's finest family lawyers", and in previous editions as providing "London standards at regional prices", possessing an "approachable and personal style", being "always available and very sympathetic" and "excellent at keeping things amicable".
