Emma Brunning
Emma Brunning is a Partner at Birketts, a top 50 UK law firm, where she leads the Family Team in Essex. She specialises in family law, with a particular focus on complex financial disputes arising from separation and divorce. Her expertise includes matters involving family-owned companies, trusts, investment portfolios, and substantial pension arrangements, as well as pre and post-nuptial agreements. Emma is also an Arbitrator and a Collaborative Lawyer, and she is also able to offer One Couple One Lawyer support through the Resolution Together model. Her work is recognised in both Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
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Amelia Wellington
Amelia Wellington is an Associate at Hughes Fowler Carruthers. Amelia advises on all areas of family law arising from the breakdown of a marriage including divorce, financial remedy proceedings and private law children matters. She also advises on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
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Tim Amos KC
Tim Amos is a barrister in international family law and formerly Head of Chambers at QEB (Queen Elizabeth Building): 2018–23. He has practised at QEB since 1988 and took silk in 2008 as QC (now KC). His practice spans all aspects of family law (including pre-nups and nuptial trusts)
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Amelia Wellington
Amelia Wellington is an Associate at Hughes Fowler Carruthers. Amelia advises on all areas of family law arising from the breakdown of a marriage including divorce, financial remedy proceedings and private law children matters. She also advises on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
George Williamson
Founder and CEO of Level.
Tim Amos KC
Tim Amos is a barrister in international family law and formerly Head of Chambers at QEB (Queen Elizabeth Building): 2018–23. He has practised at QEB since 1988 and took silk in 2008 as QC (now KC). His practice spans all aspects of family law (including pre-nups and nuptial trusts)
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A Divorce, Gaslighting, Lack of Transparency, and a Port
Emma Brunning and Dharshica Thanarajasingham (with Alexander Thorpe KC and Saima Younis) represented the wife in TF v SF [2025] EWHC 1959 (Fam). The judge had to untangle a web of hidden assets, misleading disclosures and a multi-million-pound port deal to determine a fair financial settlement.
In Defence of Legal Fee Loans: The Economics of Access to Justice
The recent High Court judgment of Peel J in 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘷 𝘓𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 [2025] EWFC 89 has renewed focus on the role of legal fee lending in family proceedings. This coincides with significant judicial commentary about funding arrangements, including notable judgments in 𝘋𝘚𝘋 𝘷 𝘔𝘑𝘞 and 𝘓𝘐 𝘷 𝘍𝘛.
Final Reflections on Standish: Was It All Worthwhile?
If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by,