Joanne Edwards
Published: 13/01/2022 10:54
Jo is a partner and Head of Family at Mayfair firm Forsters LLP. She specialises in financial remedies on divorce for high net worth couples, both in the context of complex litigation, often with an international element, and in her mediation practice. She also has extensive experience in children work. A former Chair of Resolution, Jo heads its Family Law Reform Group and in that role has lobbied for law reform, given evidence to parliamentary committees and has featured extensively in broadcast and print media. She is currently involved in the Fair Shares project and working with various not-for-profit organisations on the Parents Promise initiative.
Interview with Nigel Shepherd
Joanne Edwards interviews Nigel Shepherd, a former partner and national head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve, retiring as a consultant at the firm in October 2024. He was national Chair of Resolution 1995–1997 and again 2016–2018, the only person to have held that role twice and was given lifetime membership of Resolution in 2018.
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!22/11/2024 06:00
DR Corner: Fair Shares – Mediation Under the Microscope
1 November 2023 saw the launch of the Fair Shares report, which presents the results of the first fully representative study of the arrangements families make on separation and divorce.
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- Mediation
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!13/03/2024 07:00
DR Corner: Book review of (Almost) Anything But the Family Court
Earlier this year, my good friends at Only Mums and Only Dads, Rebecca Giraud and Bob Greig, with a stellar author in the ever-fabulous Jo O’Sullivan, launched (Almost) Anything But Family Court at the Resolution national conference. The President,…
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!17/10/2022 10:45
Whose Fault Is It Anyway?
Will the introduction of "no fault" divorce herald greater reliance on conduct in financial remedy proceedings?
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- divorce
!01/04/2022 06:19
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