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Amy Scollan
Amy Scollan is a Partner at Hunters Law LLP. She deals with all aspects of family law and has particular expertise in divorce and finance cases which often involve complex trust and company arrangements with an international dimension. Amy has represented many high-profile clients in exceptionally high-value and complicated litigation. However, complexity is the theme of her practice rather than the value of the cases she works on. Amy attracts clients from all over the country, and internationally, who seek her out to find a solution to the most difficult legal issues concerning finances, cross-border disputes and children matters.
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!04/06/2023 09:26
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Katherine Dunseath
Katherine Dunseath is a leading junior at 1 GC|Family Law, specialising in complex high net worth matrimonial finances (particularly involving complicated maintenance issues) and private children law. She has appeared in all levels of Court in the UK. Recent cases include Des Pallieres v Des Pallieres [2021] 4 WLR 96, M v P (the Queen's Proctor Intervening) [2019] 2 FLR 813 and Mills v Mills [2018] 4 All ER 612 [2018] UKSC 38.
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!04/06/2023 09:21
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Elizabeth Darlington
Elizabeth Darlington is a barrister at 1 GC|Family Law having practised in both Yorkshire and nationally for over 20 years. Her practice focuses on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown (whether marriage or cohabitation) and property disputes between family members generally. Elizabeth is the author of a number of highly regarded practitioner texts including Cohabitation and Trusts of Land, the fourth edition of which is due out later in 2023. She is an IFLA Arbitrator and a mediator (civil).
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!04/06/2023 09:17
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Dom Christophers
Dom is a Solicitor at Ribet Myles LLP. He has a particular specialism in tracing assets globally, dealing with claims where one party has failed to make proper disclosure of their assets, and advising clients in the public eye, notably those in the music and wider entertainment industry.
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!28/05/2023 09:00
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Samantha Hillas KC
Sam Hillas is a senior member of SJB’s matrimonial finance team, dealing exclusively with financial remedy work. Commended by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 as a “charismatic and client-friendly advocate” who “works like a Trojan”, Sam specialises in high net worth and/or complex cases, especially those involving marital agreements, trusts and corporate structures, cases involving non-disclosure and Schedule 1 Children Act.
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!16/05/2023 12:56
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Thomas Braithwaite
Thomas Braithwaite is a pupil at Harcourt Chambers developing a practice across all of Chambers’ areas of expertise but with a particular interest in all things financial remedy.
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!06/05/2023 15:26
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Jo O’Sullivan
Jo O'Sullivan runs her own non court family law practice: https://www.osullivanfamilylaw.com. She is an accredited mediator, collaborative solicitor and pioneer of the solicitor neutral process and has expertise in working with others to help her clients avoid court. She is also the author of the much-lauded book, (Almost) Anything but Family Court.
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!12/04/2023 13:15
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Dr Sharon Thompson
Dr Sharon Thompson is Reader in Law at Cardiff University and is author of Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice (Hart 2015), Quiet Revolutionaries (Hart 2022), and co-author of the 5th edition of Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP 2023) with Prof. Rob George and Prof. Jo Miles.
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!03/03/2023 11:00
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Dr Charlotte Bendall
Dr Charlotte Bendall is an Assistant 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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!03/03/2023 10:55
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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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!24/02/2023 17:32