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Monique Simone Fremder
Monique Simone Fremder is an Inner Temple Scholar, awarded the Profumo, Exhibition and Duke of Edinburgh Scholarships to complete the Bar Training Course at the Inns of Court College of Advocacy.
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Denise Andryszewska
Denise Andryszewska is a Senior Pension Analyst at Actuaries for Lawyers. She has extensive experience in all aspects of dealing with modelling and report writing involving defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, both public and private sector, and is a technical specialist. She is also a member of the senior management team at Actuaries for Lawyers.
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Beverley Morris
Beverley Morris is a Partner, heading up HCR Law’s Family Team in London. Over her career of almost 30 years, Beverley has dedicated herself to advising clients on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown, specialising in high-net-worth and complex financial remedy matters. Her experience includes representing clients in some of the most notable financial remedy cases, including the Supreme Court decision in Mills v Mills, which helped to shape the law on spousal maintenance, and the long-running Moses Taiga v Taiga litigation, spanning issues such as maintenance pending suit and Schedule 1 applications under the Children Act 1989. Her reported decision in Aly v Aly further reflects her experience in complex and high-profile financial disputes. Beverley is committed to advancing family law – having been a longstanding member of the Resolution West Midlands Committee and, in 2024, being invited to join the Pensions Advisory Group and contribute to its report, a follow-up to the landmark PAG1 report.
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!20/05/2025 13:06
Rachel Bale
Rachel Bale is a specialist junior in Property, Chancery & Matrimonial Finances at 3PB, with a particular emphasis on trusts. As a fierce and trusted advocate, Rachel often appears in cases well beyond her year of call. Her diverse practice often sees Rachel advise and represent on multi-disciplinary matters, which involve elements of Property, TLATA, Chancery, Trusts, Probate and Financial Remedies. Rachel also founded and runs Her Bar, the community platform dedicated to supporting women barristers at all stages of their career.
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!20/05/2025 13:03
Peter Duckworth
Peter Duckworth, of 29 Bedford Row Chambers, is the author of Matrimonial Property & Finance (Bloomsbury Professional), once described by Lord Wilson as the ‘leading text in this area’. A past Treasurer of the FLBA, he has appeared in reported cases at all levels, and more recently has diversified into business, running two finance companies alongside his Bar practice and becoming FCA approved.
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!20/05/2025 13:02
Philip Perrins
Philip Perrins is a specialist matrimonial finance barrister at 1GC | Family Law with expertise in international cases, including disputed divorce jurisdiction, forum disputes, Part III applications and marital status cases. He acted in Boughajdim v Hayoukane (Validity of Foreign Marriage) [2022] EWHC 2673 (Fam), J v A [2023] EWFC 132 (jurisdiction and forum dispute), Mahtani v Mahtani (Validity of Foreign Divorce) [2023] EWHC 2988 (Fam) and, with Beth Hibbert, in Mahtani v Mahtani (No. 2) (Adverse Inferences) [2025] EWFC 35 (Fam). He is often instructed in cases involving third party claims, having appeared in the leading case of Fisher Meredith v JH and PH [2012] 2 FLR 536. He is a qualified arbitrator and conducts arbitrations under the IFLA Scheme, as well as sitting as pFDR evaluator. He has recently joined the editorial board of Butterworths Family Law Service (Lexis-Nexis) and co-authored the second edition of A Practical Guide to Short Marriages for Family Lawyers.
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!20/05/2025 13:00
Beth Hibbert
Beth Hibbert is a family barrister at 1GC | Family Law who is instructed on cases across the full spectrum of family law. She has a growing reputation in financial remedies work. She was recently instructed in the published cases of M v F [2024] EWFC 393 and M v F [2024] EWFC 393 (No 2) (costs) and appeared with Philip Perrins in Mahtani v Mahtani (No. 2) (Adverse Inferences) [2025] EWFC 35 (Fam). Beth also co-authored the second edition of A Practical Guide to Short Marriages for Family Lawyers.
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!20/05/2025 12:57
Rhian Jones
Rhian Jones is an Associate Solicitor at Harding Evans. A member of Resolution, and a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Private Children Law and Complex Lower Income Financial Remedies, Rhian has worked exclusively in Family Law for over six years, and her work includes Divorce, Financial Remedy Proceedings, Private Law Children Proceedings, Separation, Non-Molestation Injunction applications and TLATA applications. Rhian has a particular skill for achieving out of court settlements, demonstrating her aptitude for conflict resolution.
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!20/05/2025 10:03
Leah Thomas
Leah Thomas is a Partner and the Head of Private Family & Matrimonial at Harding Evans Solicitors. Leah has practised in this field since her qualification in 2013 and deals primarily with divorce applications and high value complex financial remedy proceedings, routinely involving complex farming estates, limited companies, business partnerships, family companies, foreign property, trusts, substantial and varied pension funds and third-party interests. Leah is recognised as a ‘Next Generation Partner’ by Legal 500, and has been named in the 2025 Pro Bono Recognition List for England & Wales.
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!20/05/2025 10:03
Simon Jelf
Simon Jelf is a barrister and mediator practising at Partnership Counsel, London, and at Thomas More Chambers. He specialises exclusively in the law relating to partnerships and limited liability partnerships.
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!13/05/2025 13:16