Chris Fielding

Chris focuses on pragmatic, effective solutions to complex problems destined for trial. He listens to clients and understands they are invariably looking to avoid the eyewatering costs that modern litigation seems to generate routinely through other providers.

Chris has considerable experience in the commercial sector with many notable wins and repeated success at mediation.

The rise in contentious trusts and probate work has seen Chris specialise in this area over the last decade. Chris is recognised as an expert in this field and holds full membership of the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS), the principal organisation dedicated to promoting expertise in this niche area.

Chris grew up in Buckinghamshire. He graduated from the University of Southampton in 1996 having read a heavily literature and arts-based degree in French, before embarking on a successful career in London working at a leading advertising research agency.

In 2003, Chris relocated to Leeds to begin the process of converting to a career in law, before going on to train and qualify as a solicitor, specialising in litigation, at Fosters in 2008.

Chris has a great interest in travel having lived abroad for several years in Paris, then London, before settling in Norfolk. He is a keen opera goer and often to be found in his favourite seat at Covent Garden.

Chris also sits as an independent Hospital Manager for the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust offering services in mental healthcare. In this role Chris sits on panels evaluating the basis for detaining patients admitted to hospital, or for those in the community, whether to extend treatment by order.