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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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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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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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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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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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Jason Reeve
Jason Reeve is the CEO of new family law technology platform, Miris, and was previously the founder of Novitas Loans. Jason is passionate about using technology to enable family law professionals to maximise the benefit of time spent both with clients and in court. He aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of NCDR and court proceedings, ultimately lowering the cost for clients.
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!13/05/2025 09:51
Stephen Wildblood KC
Stephen Wildblood KC was the Designated Family Judge for the Bristol area for ten years before stepping down in November 2023. He continues to sit as a judge, part-time, in the Family and High Courts. He practised as a Family barrister for 27 years, the last 8½ as a KC. His practice was divided equally between children and financial remedy cases. He has written in over 20 legal textbooks on issues of family law and often lectures on the full range of family issues. He and Dr Freda Gardner (consultant clinical psychologist) have set up a business which offers to assist couples resolve their family issues relating to money and children without litigation. They are both trained mediators. Stephen is a qualified Family arbitrator in relation to issues relating to children and financial issues. Stephen has joined 3 PB barristers chambers as an associate member offering private FDRs, early neutral evaluation and arbitration. He is a playwright and author. He believes that Family litigation should be a last resort.
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!13/05/2025 09:50
Dr Freda V Gardner
Dr Freda V Gardner is a consultant clinical psychologist. Since 2002 she has been a Law Society approved expert witness providing assessments in both public and private law cases. Dr Gardner developed Orchard House Family Assessment and Intervention Centre in 2005. In 2023 Dr Gardner and Stephen Wildblood KC established Gardner Wildblood LLP to provide psychologically informed dispute resolution.
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