Raegan Leather (TEP)
Partner, Solicitor and Head of Department
Raegan is Head of the Wills, Trusts & Probate team at Woollcombe Yonge. She qualified as a Solicitor in 2015 having completed both her law and postgraduate degree at the University of Plymouth. In January 2024 Raegan became a Salaried Partner in the practice.
Raegan is a full member of STEP (www.step.org) and is acting Chair of the STEP West of England branch. She is also a local school governor.
Raegan deals with all private clients matters, including the preparation of wills, arrangements for powers of attorney, probate, trusts and tax related matters for high net worth clients. With her close ties to the South West region, Raegan is dedicated to her local clients and prides herself on combining a down to earth approach with an undoubted level of professionalism.
In her spare time, Raegan is a keen runner and is a qualified leader with her local running club, and is currently training for a Rat race.
What people say
“Raegan was easy to speak to, had all the information to hand and was very well prepared”
“Thank you Raegan for a professional and speedy service and for helping me through this process at a very difficult time”
“Even under COVID-19 your service was professional and safe”
“Raegan was extremely professional and sensitive in all matters”
Paul Brookman
Solicitor in the Criminal Department
Paul joined the Criminal Litigation Department on the 28th May 2019.
Paul is an accredited Duty Solicitor. He is an experienced criminal practitioner also undertaking licencing, taxi licencing and health and safety work.
Vivien Bell
Associate
Vivien is a Family Law Specialist joining Woollcombe Yonge on 6th August 2018.
Vivien was made Head of the Finance and Private Law Children Team in March 2024.
Vivien deals with cases involving family relationship breakdown.
She specialises in Divorce, Cohabitation and Separation issues, Financial matters and proceedings relating to Children (where the children are to live and who they spend time with). She has experience of drafting pre-nuptial, post nuptial agreements and cohabitation agreements.
Vivien also specialises in matters involving domestic violence and has worked with clients via the Plymouth Domestic Abuse Service legal clinic.
Vivien is a member of Resolution. She aims to resolve matters in a constructive and non-confrontational manner. She is a committee member of Devon Resolution and was formerly Chair of Yres, Devon
Nichola Williams
Assistant Solicitor
Nichola joined the Family Team in January 2022.
Nichola’s role will involve undertaking a mix of private family law and public family care work.
Conveyancing client
"As a family we found the service provided to us was delivered with ’empathy’ and was in fact ‘outstanding’, we would most certainly recommend Woollcombe Yonge to friends.”