Hi, I’m ASHLEY HARGREAVES.
I am the face and mind behind “Life Sentence.”
Life Sentence is an entity I have created to share my legal knowledge and opinion gained through my education, and work experience as a lawyer. My areas of expertise lie within family law and general practice.
I obtained a Bachelor’s of Law (LLB) and Bachelor of Social Sciences (Bsoc.Sci) majoring in Psychology, through The University of Waikato in New Zealand. I am currently employed by Dewhirst Law, Whanganui, as a Solicitor.
This is primarily a place for me to log posts and articles about laws that affect thousands of everyday people as they reach different stages and experiences throughout their life - the good, and the bad. Whether it be Marriage, Separation, Parenting, Crime, or handling internal affairs such as Wills - this is the place to find important information to help protect you, your assets and your loved ones.
Welcome, and thank you for visiting my website.
My Approach
For as long as I can remember I have had a strong passion and fascination for all things law related, especially ‘high profile’ criminal cases. It has been a long-standing dream of mine to obtain a law degree and work within the field of law. Whether this was to be as a Police Officer, a Prosecutor or a defence Lawyer was still to be discovered, however, after 3 years working for a family law solicitor, I have found myself drawn towards the black gowns and ‘perruque’ - the lawyer’s wig.
My aim for this site is to give people a place to keep up to date with the law and how it may affect them, so people can take the necessary steps and legal action to protect themselves, before it is too late.
This is an open space for people to contact me with any queries or topics of which they would like me to write about. Whilst the topics for this site are primarily common areas of law, I am open to all aspects, including those which are simply out of pure fascination or current affairs.