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Rachel Bale

Rachel Bale is a specialist junior in Property, Chancery & Matrimonial Finances at 3PB, with a particular emphasis on trusts. As a fierce and trusted advocate, Rachel often appears in cases well beyond her year of call. Her diverse practice often sees Rachel advise and represent on multi-disciplinary matters, which

Peter Duckworth

Peter Duckworth, of 29 Bedford Row Chambers, is the author of Matrimonial Property & Finance (Bloomsbury Professional), once described by Lord Wilson as the ‘leading text in this area’. A past Treasurer of the FLBA, he has appeared in reported cases at all levels, and more recently has diversified into

Philip Perrins

Philip Perrins is a specialist matrimonial finance barrister at 1GC | Family Law with expertise in international cases, including disputed divorce jurisdiction, forum disputes, Part III applications and marital status cases. He acted in Boughajdim v Hayoukane (Validity of Foreign Marriage) [2022] EWHC 2673 (Fam), J v A [2023] EWFC 132

Beth Hibbert

Beth Hibbert is a family barrister at 1GC | Family Law who is instructed on cases across the full spectrum of family law. She has a growing reputation in financial remedies work. She was recently instructed in the published cases of M v F [2024] EWFC 393 and M v F

Rhian Jones

Rhian Jones is an Associate Solicitor at Harding Evans. A member of Resolution, and a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Private Children Law and Complex Lower Income Financial Remedies, Rhian has worked exclusively in Family Law for over six years, and her work includes Divorce, Financial Remedy Proceedings, Private Law Children

Leah Thomas

Leah Thomas is a Partner and the Head of Private Family & Matrimonial at Harding Evans Solicitors. Leah has practised in this field since her qualification in 2013 and deals primarily with divorce applications and high value complex financial remedy proceedings, routinely involving complex farming estates, limited companies, business partnerships,

Simon Jelf

Simon Jelf is a barrister and mediator practising at Partnership Counsel, London, and at Thomas More Chambers. He specialises exclusively in the law relating to partnerships and limited liability partnerships.