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Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is a specialist family law practitioner at Pump Court Chambers. She has a thriving practice in the area of family finance, and has successfully represented high net worth clients in cases involving family businesses, inherited wealth, substantial pensions, nuptial agreements, and trusts. Many of her cases also involve foreign assets, tax complications, and cross jurisdictional issues, such as the validity or otherwise of an overseas marriage or divorce, or competing claims in multiple jurisdictions (including cases pertaining to Asia and Africa). Jennifer also sits as a fee-paid Judge in the Tax Chamber (FTT).
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!01/03/2022 02:59
Sir Paul Coleridge
Sir Paul Coleridge is a former High Court Judge of the Family Division.
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!25/02/2022 15:01
Polly Calver
Polly is an Associate in the Family team. Polly's areas of practice include all aspects of private family law, including resolving arrangements for children, handling the financial consequences of separation, cohabitation, and cases involving trusts and international elements.
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!25/02/2022 14:02
Sir James Munby
Sir James Lawrence Munby is a retired English judge who was President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales.
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!25/02/2022 13:35
Jonathan Galbraith
Jonathan is a pensions actuary with 18 years of experience in the UK pensions industry. He qualified in 2009 and serves as a Principal at Mathieson Consulting Limited, the leading provider of actuarial expert witness services in England & Wales, specialising in pensions settlements arising on divorce. His earlier career was spent as a corporate pensions actuary with PwC, advising employers on pension scheme liability management, scheme funding and benefit design. Jonathan is a co-author of Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook (4th edition, Class Legal 2025).
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!22/02/2022 14:23
Graeme Fraser
Graeme Fraser is a solicitor and Head of the Family Team at William Sturges LLP and has been supporting, guiding and enabling people to achieve fairer outcomes, often at a difficult time in their lives, for over 25 years. He is renowned for improving protections for cohabiting couples through his practice, through his work with Resolution as Chair of its Cohabitation Committee and through commentary in the media.
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!21/02/2022 14:33
Holly Symonds
Holly is a barrister at FOURTEEN whose practice focuses on financial remedies and TLATA 1996. From 2020 to 2021 she was a judicial assistant in the High Court (Family Division) and was involved in some of the most high-profile cases during the period. Holly regularly speaks at seminars on a variety of topics and provides training to other legal professionals.
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!18/02/2022 10:20
Byron James
Byron James is a Partner and Head of the Expatriate Law team in the United Arab Emirates. Having been based in the Middle East for several years, he has an expert understanding of the local law and culture, in particular the way in which it affects expatriates. His caseload is diverse, he represents expatriates all over the world with clients in almost every continent. He specialises in all aspects of family law, ranging from divorce and financial remedy cases to disputes involving children.
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!11/02/2022 23:41
Emily Ward
Emily Ward is a barrister specialising in family law practising from Broadway House Chambers. She sits as a Deputy District Judge, is a qualified Arbitrator, and acts as a Private FDR practitioner/evaluator. Emily is the Secretary of the Yorkshire and Humber FLBA Committee and is a member of the Farquhar Committee and the President’s Transparency Implementation Group. Outside of her court practice Emily is part of the writing team at Butterworths Family & Civil Law Service, and is a co-author of Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents.
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!11/02/2022 23:36
Alexandra Hampton | Assistant Case Editor
Alex is a junior barrister at Queen Elizabeth Building. She is building a practice across the full spectrum of private family law, with a particular focus on financial remedies.
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!09/02/2022 12:19