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Tony Roe is a family law partner at Reading-based Dexter Montague LLP. A solicitor specialising in complex financial remedy matters with over thirty years of experience, he is an arbitrator and collaborative lawyer. He is a visiting fellow in family law at the University of Reading. Media trained by the

Dr Susan Purdon is a qualified statistician with research interests in the design, implementation and analysis of sample surveys, social experiments, and quasi-experiments, and a partner at Bryson Purdon Social Research LLP. She is an expert in the statistical aspects of evaluation impact studies, and has many years’ experience of

Dr Jenny Birchall is Senior Research Associate for the Fair Shares project, based at the University of Bristol Law School.

Gillian Douglas FBA is Professor Emerita at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn. She is a co-author of Bromley's Family Law, and a former co-editor of Family Law case reports and the Child and

Caroline Bryson is a quantitative social scientist with over 25 years’ experience and a partner at Bryson Purdon Social Research LLP. She has broad-reaching expertise in evaluation and survey development and implementation, questionnaire design, primary and secondary data analysis, and reporting for a wide range of audiences. Her substantive specialisms

Ian Besford was appointed as a District Judge in 1999 and a Regional Cost Judge in 2017. Before that he was a solicitor in private practice in the North East and principal of a cost drafting firm. He retired from the District Bench in April 2022.