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Harry Benson
Harry Benson is one of Britain’s leading champions for marriage. As research director for Marriage Foundation, his findings are routinely cited in the UK media and by politicians and have made front page news on several occasions. He has taught relationship courses to thousands of couples and written several books on marriage and relationships. A former Royal Navy helicopter pilot, he is currently in the final year of his PhD in social policy at the University of Bristol looking at the role of commitment in the timing of marriage. Married for 37 years with six young adult children, hopefully he and his wife are doing something right!
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!05/02/2024 16:58
Duncan Brooks KC
Duncan Brooks KC specialises in complex matrimonial finance proceedings and in financial provision following separation. He also acts as an arbitrator and private FDR evaluator in financial cases. He is used to dealing with complexities arising from trusts, business accounts, taxation and international disputes. He regularly deals with cases involving the music, art, finance, private equity, legal, farming and business industries. He is often instructed where there are knotty points of law.
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!05/02/2024 16:53
Naomh Gallagher
Naomh Gallagher is a barrister at St John's Buildings. She specialises in financial remedy proceedings, including those involving interveners and non-biological children. Naomh has completed the FLBA’s Advocacy and the Vulnerable course and has extensive experience in cases involving vulnerable witnesses, domestic abuse and section 25 conduct issues. Naomh is also well-experienced in private law children proceedings acting for both parents and extended family members.
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!18/01/2024 16:02
Richard Tambling
Richard’s practice is focused on matrimonial finance and Schedule 1 claims. He is frequently instructed on cases involving businesses and trusts and those cases with a foreign element, and often represents interveners and is adept at dealing with multi-party cases. Richard advises on TOLATA claims in the domestic context and those with concurrent Schedule 1 proceedings. Richard is also well-experienced in private law children applications including fact-finding hearings and cases involving complex family relationships and drug and alcohol abuse. Richard also represents clients on leave to remove hearings.
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!12/01/2024 11:06
Andrew Day
Andrew Day is a barrister at St Ives Chambers, Birmingham, and a Recorder, arbitrator and private FDR evaluator.
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!03/01/2024 12:49
Hilary Woodward
Hilary Woodward was a solicitor and mediator in private practice for many years, before joining academia. Hilary has been involved in many family law studies and for the last ten years has worked intensely in the field of pensions on divorce. Hilary is the about to retire chief executive of the Pension Advisory Group and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with University of Bristol School of Law. At the launch of the Second Edition of the Pension Advisory Group report, Hilary’s contribution in the field of pensions on divorce was described as ‘incalculable’.
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!20/12/2023 10:45
Sapna Jain
Sapna Jain is a Pupil Barrister at 1GC Family Law.
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!11/12/2023 09:58
Tadhgh Barwell O’Connor
Tadhgh Barwell O’Connor is a family law specialist working across the full breadth of family law with experience up to the High Court, including complex, international, multi-day trials. He has particular specialisms in complex, cross-border disputes including Hague Convention return and contact cases, relocation and leave to remove applications, and international child arrangements, with a special interest in Armed Forces and LGBTQIA+ families. Tadhgh was awarded the Pegasus Scholarship to the American Inns of Court in 2022, creating a state specific US network of family lawyers and has experience working directly with high and super high net worth families.
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!04/12/2023 09:17
Liam Kelly
Liam Kelly is a barrister at Deans Court Chambers, Manchester, and 5SAH, London, practising exclusively in private family law, with an emphasis on financial remedy work. He is recognised in Chambers and Partners 2024 as ‘Up and Coming’ with an impressive and growing practice in family law and as a Rising Star in Divorce and Financial Remedy work in the Legal 500 2025.
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!27/11/2023 13:57
Charlotte Trace
Charlotte Trace is instructed in all areas of family law, predominantly financial remedy and private law Children Act matters (including claims under Schedule 1). She completed pupillage at 29 Bedford Row in 2014 and now has a busy and successful practice conducting her own cases and acting as a junior to leading silks. Prior to joining chambers, Charlotte spent a year working as a paralegal in the family department of Withers LLP assisting on a number of high value financial disputes including Tchenguiz-Imerman v Imerman [2012] EWHC 4277 (Fam) and [2013] EWHC 3627.
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!27/11/2023 13:55
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