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Dr Susan Purdon
Dr Susan Purdon is a qualified statistician with research interests in the design, implementation and analysis of sample surveys, social experiments, and quasi-experiments, and a partner at Bryson Purdon Social Research LLP. She is an expert in the statistical aspects of evaluation impact studies, and has many years’ experience of techniques such as propensity score matching and regression. She also has considerable expertise in complex sampling and estimation, including standard error estimation for complex surveys, non-response and missing-data assessment; weighting; and statistical tests.
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Dr Jenny Birchall
Dr Jenny Birchall is Senior Research Associate for the Fair Shares project, based at the University of Bristol Law School.
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Professor Gillian Douglas
Gillian Douglas FBA is Professor Emerita at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn. She is a co-author of Bromley's Family Law, and a former co-editor of Family Law case reports and the Child and Family Law Quarterly. She has led several empirical studies into aspects of family law, including financial arrangements on cohabitation breakdown. She recently chaired the JUSTICE Working Party on Improving access to justice for separating families.
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Caroline Bryson
Caroline Bryson is a quantitative social scientist with over 25 years’ experience and a partner at Bryson Purdon Social Research LLP. She has broad-reaching expertise in evaluation and survey development and implementation, questionnaire design, primary and secondary data analysis, and reporting for a wide range of audiences. Her substantive specialisms include family separation, parenting and early years intervention.
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Ian Besford
Ian Besford was appointed as a District Judge in 1999 and a Regional Cost Judge in 2017. Before that he was a solicitor in private practice in the North East and principal of a cost drafting firm. He retired from the District Bench in April 2022.
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DJ Debbie Stringer
Debbie Stringer was appointed as a District Judge in 2019, having previously sat as a Deputy District Judge and a Fee-paid Judge of the Social Entitlement Chamber. Before being appointed to the judiciary Debbie successfully combined academia, where she was a senior lecturer at The Open University, with practice as a Solicitor. Debbie continues to enjoy teaching as she is a regular and popular speaker at the judicial college.
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Lucy Mead
Lucy Mead is a Solicitor and Head of the Family Department of David Gray Solicitors in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a qualified Family Arbitrator for Financial cases, a Higher Rights Advocate, is a Resolution accredited specialist and also a member of the Law Society Children Panel. She has a particular expertise in cases concerning children and the financial position when relationships break down.
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Beth Kirkland
Beth Kirkland is a non-practising solicitor with over ten years’ experience of working in family law, primarily advising and representing legally aided clients. She is now Head of Legal Information and Pro Bono at Law for Life. She is responsible for researching the law, designing, writing and updating legal information resources for Advicenow. To support this she fosters pro bono and legal sector relationships. She is also responsible for managing and developing the involvement of volunteers across Law for Life’s work.
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Esther Elshen
Esther Elshen is Communications Manager at Support Through Court, a social justice charity supporting people going through court without representation.
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Justin Warshaw KC
Justin Warshaw KC is a barrister a 1 Hare Court. He is a financial remedies specialist who relishes complex and challenging cases where his wide array of skills can be deployed to their full advantage. He mainly handles international work, frequently instructed in cases involving offshore jurisdictions. He is a pro bono LASPO Reviewer for Advocate.
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