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Dr Sharon Thompson
Dr Sharon Thompson is Reader in Law at Cardiff University. Her research specialises in adult relationships, with particular focus on power, inequality and the gender of money. She has published widely on family law, including two monographs: Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Quiet Revolutionaries (Bloomsbury, 2022). Sharon is also co-author of the 5th edition of Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP, 2023) with Jo Miles and Rob George.
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Dr Charlotte Bendall
Dr Charlotte Bendall is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Birmingham. Her research to date has focused on a range of topics, including same-sex relationship breakdown, couple finances, and the position of grandparents in the event of family fragmentation. She is currently working on a Family Law Reform Now edited collection (Hart 2024) with Dr Rehana Parveen.
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Philip Tait
Philip Tait is a barrister at 29 Bedford Row, which he joined in October 2019 and where he specialises in private family law. He is ranked as a rising star in the Legal 500, where he is described as a ‘formidable barrister’ and an ‘excellent advocate’.
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Harry Campbell
Harry Campbell is a barrister at 29 Bedford Row, specialising in financial remedy proceedings. Harry is listed in the Legal 500 2023 in the ‘Rising Stars’ category. He is described as ‘a future star of the junior Bar’ and as being a ‘very bright, tenacious and well organised barrister’. Harry is also praised for being ‘pragmatic and thinking quickly on his feet’. He completed a secondment as the Judicial Assistant to Mr Justice Mostyn in the Family Division of the High Court from January 2022 to April 2022.
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Sir Mathew Thorpe
Sir Mathew Thorpe, Barrister from 1961, in silk from 1980, Family Division Judge (1988 to 1995), Lord Justice of Appeal (1995 to 2013) and Deputy Head of Family Justice and Head of International Family Justice (2005 to 2013).
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Lucy Taylor
Lucy Taylor is a Partner at Evelyn Partners Investment Management LLP, specialising in Investment Management. She has managed portfolios for private clients, their pensions, charities and family trusts for 25 years. Lucy is a Graduate of Durham university where she read Economics & Economic History. Lucy sits on the Investment Process Committee for the Group. Outside work, she enjoys a variety of hobbies and is qualified to teach mindfulness to children. Lucy has been an independent Trustee and Investment Committee member for a Charity since 2010 and an Adviser to schools and educational charities regarding bursary programmes.
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Julian Whight
Julian Whight is a financial planner who advises on pensions on divorce, offsetting, lifetime allowance planning, cashflow planning, pension transfers, defined benefit pension options and bespoke Duxbury calculations. He specialises in shadow expert work for divorce cases, particularly for larger cases where the Lifetime Allowance is a consideration. He has worked at Evelyn Partners (formerly TS&W / Smith & Williamson) since 2000, providing advice to high net-worth private clients on their pensions and retirement options.
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!24/02/2023 16:46
Jim Hitch
Jim Hitch co-founded Casedo in 2017 with Casedo creator and barrister Ross Birkbeck. He’s been the Secretary Trustee of the grant-giving mental health charity The Pixel Fund since 2016 and previous to that spent nine years on the board of Southern Housing Group. Most importantly, he spends as much time in the outdoors as possible with his partner and three daughters, preferably in their now beat-up motorhome. He is banned from going on about his family at work.
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Sarah Green
Sarah Green is a Senior Associate at Michelmores in Bristol where she specialises in advising high net worth and high profile individuals, in relation to financial remedies on divorce, cohabitation, children and wealth protection. She is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in complex financial remedies and children law, and a trained Collaborative practitioner. Sarah is listed as a 'Rising Star' in Legal 500 and 'Associate to Watch' in Chambers & Partners. Sarah is a former Resolution National Committee member and co-founded and chaired the National YRes committee for a number of years. She was named Outstanding Returner of the Year at the inaugural Women in Law Awards 2020 for her work supporting women lawyers returning to work after maternity leave.
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!24/02/2023 16:43
Tony Roe
Tony Roe is a family law partner at Reading-based Dexter Montague LLP. A solicitor specialising in complex financial remedy matters with over thirty years of experience, he is an arbitrator and collaborative lawyer. He is a visiting fellow in family law at the University of Reading. Media trained by the Law Society and Resolution, he is also a commentator on family law.
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