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Dom Christophers

‘The go-to guy for musicians’ (Legal 500 2025), Dom Christophers is an award-winning family lawyer whose practice encompasses all aspects of family law, particularly serving clients in the music and entertainment industries. Before entering family law, Dom spent eight years in the music industry, collaborating with major artists and labels,

Samantha Hillas KC

Samantha Hillas KC

Sam Hillas KC specialises in financial remedy work as an advocate, arbitrator and private FDR evaluator and is known for her plain speaking, common sense approach. She practises from St John’s Buildings, with chambers in Liverpool and across the North of England and is one of only three matrimonial

Thomas Braithwaite

Thomas Braithwaite is a pupil at Harcourt Chambers developing a practice across all of Chambers’ areas of expertise but with a particular interest in all things financial remedy.

Jo O’Sullivan

Jo runs her own non court family law practice: https://www.osullivanfamilylaw.com/. She’s an accredited mediator, collaborative solicitor and pioneer of the solicitor neutral process and has expertise in working with others to help her clients avoid court. Jo is the author of the much-lauded (Almost) Anything but

Professor Sharon Thompson

Professor Sharon Thompson is Professor of Law at Cardiff University. Her research specialises in adult relationships, with particular focus on power, inequality and the gender of money. She has published widely on family law, including two monographs: Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Quiet Revolutionaries

Dr Charlotte Bendall

Dr Charlotte Bendall is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Birmingham. Her research to date has focused on a range of topics, including same-sex relationship breakdown, couple finances, and the position of grandparents in the event of family fragmentation.

Philip Tait

Philip Tait is a barrister at 29 Bedford Row, which he joined in October 2019 and where he specialises in private family law. He is ranked as a rising star in the Legal 500, where he is described as a ‘formidable barrister’ and an ‘excellent advocate’.