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Liam Kelly
Liam Kelly is a barrister at Deans Court Chambers, Manchester, and 5SAH, London, practising exclusively in private family law, with an emphasis on financial remedy work. He is recognised in Chambers and Partners 2024 as ‘Up and Coming’ with an impressive and growing practice in family law and as a Rising Star in Divorce and Financial Remedy work in the Legal 500 2025.
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Charlotte Trace
Charlotte Trace is instructed in all areas of family law, predominantly financial remedy and private law Children Act matters (including claims under Schedule 1). She completed pupillage at 29 Bedford Row in 2014 and now has a busy and successful practice conducting her own cases and acting as a junior to leading silks. Prior to joining chambers, Charlotte spent a year working as a paralegal in the family department of Withers LLP assisting on a number of high value financial disputes including Tchenguiz-Imerman v Imerman [2012] EWHC 4277 (Fam) and [2013] EWHC 3627.
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Isabella Thomas-Kelly
Isabella Thomas-Kelly is a current pupil barrister at 1 Hare Court. As paralegal at Sears Tooth, she was involved in financial remedy and private children work. Isabella studied family law at UEA at undergraduate level, and at Oxford on the BCL.
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Alexander Learmonth KC
Appointed to silk in 2021, and shortlisted for Chancery Silk of the Year in the 2023 Chambers UK Bar Awards, Alexander Learmonth KC has been described as ‘intellectually and technically remarkable’ (Legal 500), and is renowned for his ‘first-rate strategic acumen’ (Chambers HNW) and his ‘great advocacy and cross-examination skills’ (Legal 500). His principal areas of practice are succession, trusts and property, including when such issues arise in the family context, and he has appeared in many major cases, at every level of court, including the first probate case ever to reach the Supreme Court, Marley v Rawlings, and the recent Court of Appeal case Hudson v Hathway. He is the editor of leading textbooks: Theobald on Wills and Williams, Mortimer & Sunnucks on Executors, Administrators and Probate. He was named Advocate of the Year in the STEP Private Client Awards 2020.
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Sophie Cullis
Sophie Cullis is a barrister at Queen Elizabeth Building (QEB).
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!30/10/2023 09:36
Sophia Paraskeva
Sophia Paraskeva is a Pupil at 1 Hare Court.
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Mr Justice Cobb
Sir Stephen Cobb has been a Justice of the High Court since 2013. He sits in the Family Division, the Family Court, the Court of Protection and the Administrative Court of the King’s Bench Division. He was called to the Bar in 1985 (Inner Temple) and took Silk in 2003; he was appointed a Bencher in 2004. He is consultant editor of the Family Law Reports, and has an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Liverpool. He was Chairman of the FLBA in 2009–10. He led the Private Law Working Group for 8 years (2013–2021); he was a Family Presider for the North Eastern Circuit for more than 6 years (2015–2021), and for the last 2 years has led for the Judiciary across all jurisdictions on the HMCTS Reform Programme.
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Olivia Piercy
Olivia Piercy is a partner at Hunters Law and a member of Resolution’s Domestic Abuse Committee and co-Chair of Resolution’s working party on domestic abuse in financial remedy cases.
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Simon Denton
Simon Denton is Head of Tax at Milsted Langdon where he has been partner for nearly 20 years. Simon is ACA, CTA and STEP qualified and spends his time advising clients on many areas of tax including business and capital taxes. Alongside his main client base, Simon regularly undertakes single joint expert work in the family courts and expert witness work in cases of alleged professional negligence on matters of taxation.
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Alex Woolley
Alex Woolley is the co-founder of NeedsMet, an early-stage law-tech start up which helps those who can’t afford or access legal advice to understand their potential claims on divorce. He is a previous winner (with his first start-up, Formily) of the SRA’s Legal Access Challenge. Alex is also an Associate at Farrer & Co.
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