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Karen Barham
Karen Barham is a solicitor of over 35 years' experience. She now practises exclusively as a mediator and parenting coordinator and is a Consultant at Moore Barlow. Believing that many separating and divorcing families can be assisted away from the court in NCDR and putting Part 3 of the FPR front and centre, she pioneered the Surrey Initiative leading to the national Family Solutions Initiative. Karen serves on Resolution's DR committee, is a member of the Family Solutions Group and the MoJ's Early Response Working Group. She is recognised as a Leading Individual & ADR specialist in the legal directories.
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Cléa Amundsen
Cléa Amundsen is a lawyer at Kitsilano Family Law in Vancouver, Canada, with a focus on lessening the impact that separation and divorce has on children. She has extensive experience and success in representing clients in international child abduction cases. Cléa is a family law mediator and accepts legal aid and low bono mediation clients.
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Stuart McGhee
Stuart McGhee, barrister at Pump Court Chambers. Stuart undertakes instructions across the full range of financial claims between parties and separating and financial applications for and on behalf of children.
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Mark Ablett
Mark Ablett, barrister at Pump Court Chambers. Co-host of the Family Law Podcast. Mark practises across the spectrum of private disputes arising from relationship breakdown, with a focus on complex financial remedies.
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Cordelia Williams
Cordelia Williams is a barrister at Pump Court Chambers who specialises in financial remedies and private law children matters. She is regularly instructed in complex disputes, often appearing against senior barristers of leading family chambers. She is listed in The Legal 500 2024 as a ‘Rising Star’ (Tier 1).
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Claire Howard
Claire Howard is an Associate Solicitor at Raydens. She has extensive experience in dealing with divorce, dissolution, financial proceedings, cohabitation disputes, private law children matters and domestic abuse. She has particular experience in running financial proceedings through alternative dispute resolution and has concluded a number of cases through the family law arbitration process.
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Timothy Evans
Timothy Evans is an associate at Forsters LLP specialising in all areas of private family law including divorce and separation, financial claims (in particular complex HNW/UHNW cases, and with experience acting for third parties), private children law (including Schedule 1 claims), domestic abuse claims under the Family Law Act, and pre- and post-nuptial agreements. He has been recognised in the Legal 500 and is also Deputy Treasurer of the City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society. Timothy also runs a pro bono clinic in conjunction with Citizens Advice Wandsworth.
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Olivia Longrigg
Olivia Longrigg is an associate at Forsters LLP. Her areas of practice include all aspects of private family law, including matters related to divorce and separation, financial claims, private children law and claims under the Family Law Act. Olivia has been recognised as a recommended lawyer by the Legal 500 and is a member of Resolution. Olivia volunteers for the Islington Legal Advice Centre and sits on the international committee of the Westminster and Holborn Law Society.
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Her Honour Judge Evans-Gordon
Jane Evans-Gordon is a Circuit Judge (Family, Financial Remedies and Civil/Chancery), a Nominated Judge of the Court of Protection, a Judge of the Administrative Court and of the Central Family Court.
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Professor Nick Hopkins
Professor Nick Hopkins is Law Commissioner for Family Law at the Law Commission of England and Wales. Amongst other projects, he has previously led the Commission’s work on surrogacy law (jointly with the Scottish Law Commission) and Weddings law. He holds a Chair in Law at Reading University and is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.
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