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Ben Fearnley
Ben qualified in 2001 and since that time has been practising exclusively from 29 Bedford Row Chambers. His practice encompasses all of the financial aspects of relationship breakdown including divorce, dissolution of civil partnerships, the separation of unmarried couples and financial provision for children, together with jurisdiction disputes.
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George Mathieson
George Mathieson founded Mathieson Consulting Ltd (MCL) in 2007, as a company specialising in the provision of expert witness reports in the field of pensions and divorce and has produced c. 6,000 such reports. He was a founder of the Pension Advisory Group. His current role is as a Consultant for MCL, and Divisional Director for MCL’s parent company, RBC Brewin Dolphin, with responsibility for talking to any lawyer who will listen, about all things related to pensions and divorce.
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Giorgia Sessi
Giorgia Sessi is a barrister at Parklane Plowden Chambers, with premises in Leeds and Newscastle. Giorgia has a broad experience in the field of financial remedies and her practice encompasses modest to high value cases.
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Samantha Woodham
Samantha Woodham is a barrister at 4PB and co-founder of The Divorce Surgery.
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Harry Gates
Harry Gates is a barrister at 4PB and co-founder of The Divorce Surgery.
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Dr Andy Hayward
Dr Andy Hayward is an Associate Professor in Family Law at Durham Law School, Durham University. His research focuses on domestic and comparative family law, especially the legal regulation of adult interpersonal relationships. In 2021 Andy was Special Advisor to the UK Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee for their Rights of Cohabiting Partners Inquiry and in 2024 was appointed to the Family Justice Council. His recent publications are The Future of Registered Partnerships: Family Recognition Beyond Marriage? (Intersentia, 2017) (with Prof Jens Scherpe), Research Handbook on Family Property and the Law (Edward Elgar, 2024) (with Prof Margaret Briggs) and De Facto Relationships: A Comparative Guide (Edward Elgar, 2025 (forthcoming)) (with Prof Jens Scherpe).
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Francis J
Before appointment to the High Court Francis J was a leading matrimonial finance silk and head of chambers at 29 Bedford Row. Francis J is the Family Division Liaison Judge for Wales and the co-chair of the Pension Advisory Group.
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Agata Osinska
Agata Osinska is an Associate Solicitor at the International Family Law Group LLP.
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Peter Martin
Peter Martin, Consultant, OGR Stock Denton
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David Salter
David Salter is a Past President of IAFL and Past Chairman of Resolution. He was National Head of Family Law at Addleshaw Goddard and at Mills & Reeve. He has sat as a Recorder and deputy High Court judge and now regularly undertakes Private FDRs. He served for 10 years on the Family Procedure Rules Committee and on the Pensions Advisory Group leading to its initial report in 2019. He has written and lectured extensively on financial remedies, particularly pensions on divorce.
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