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John Spender is a partner of Kennedy Partners. He is recognised throughout the Melbourne family law community as a leading family lawyer and has expertise in all areas of family law, including complex parenting and property disputes, financial and child support agreements, and international matters involving forum and jurisdictional disputes.

Anna Shadbolt has specialised in family law since qualifying as a solicitor in 2011, joining Dawson Cornwell in 2016 and being made up to partner in 2023. She advises on all aspects of family law, particularly financial issues arising upon divorce or separation of cohabiting couples. Anna is ranked as

Andrew Venables is a Senior Associate at Dickinson Gleeson, a firm of Jersey Advocates. He specialises in trust litigation (acting for both beneficiaries and trustees, and in both hostile and friendly trust litigation) and commercial litigation. He previously undertook some matrimonial finance work as a barrister in England. Dickinson Gleeson

Charlie Collins is a pupil barrister at 29 Bedford Row. Before starting pupillage, he graduated from Oxford University and was a paralegal at a boutique family law firm in London.

James Finch is instructed across all areas of family law. He advises and represents clients in matrimonial finance, disputes between unmarried cohabitants and in private law children matters. James seeks to assist clients in achieving a swift resolution to their matters at an early stage and seeks to broker negotiation

Max Lewis is a specialist financial remedies barrister with particular interests in trusts and company law, as well as the international recognition of marriages and divorces. He regularly acts in cases involving complex structures spread over various jurisdictions. He is an IFLA arbitrator and PFDR evaluator.