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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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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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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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!24/02/2023 16:42
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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!24/02/2023 16:21
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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!24/02/2023 16:15