Caroline Hartley

15 Feb 2022

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Caroline Hartley

Tel: 02073530711 | c.hartley@pumpcourtchambers.com
Pump Court Chambers 3 Pump Court
London EV4Y7AJ

I have been specialising as a barrister in children matters for 20 years. For the last 9 years I have also been sitting at courts in the south and the south west of England as a part time district judge helping families to decide how they regulate their lives once the parents have separated.

Qualifications

Barrister, Part-time Judge

Geographic Region

Channel Islands, East Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West, West Midlands

Alison Bull

2 Feb 2022

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Alison Bull

Tel: 447918942652 | alison.bull@mills-reeve.com
Mills & Reeve LLP No 1 Circle Square, 3 Symphony Park
Manchester M1 7FS

I am a partner at national law firm Mills & Reeve LLP, and since 2008 have headed the Manchester family and children team and our national non-court dispute resolution practice. I qualified as a solicitor in 1997 and have specialised in family work since then. I act for clients across England and Wales and overseas, in and outside court.
As well as being a qualified children and financial arbitrator, I am an accredited family and civil/commercial mediator, and qualified to supervise other mediators, and to meet with children. I am a non-practising counsellor.

I am passionate about assisting families to resolve their disputes without court proceedings, in mediation where possible, and in arbitration if they are unable to reach an agreement and need me to make important decisions for them.

Whilst being recognised in the independent legal directories as a leading individual and for legal expertise in complex cases, my approach is a very human one, with a focus on minimising the impact of disputes on all of the family. Family issues often cause a huge amount of stress and/or emotional distress, and arbitration conducted decisively and with empathy can be brilliantly effective at achieving a swift and cost-effective resolution, whilst also enabling those involved to have their say.

“Alison Bull is singled out as being ‘just superb at diffusing conflicts; she is astute and technically brilliant and is a top-drawer family lawyer and mediator with an excellent manner with clients’ and ‘very sympathetic but gets to the point’”(Legal 500)

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

East Midlands, Isle of Man, London, North East, North West, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber

Olivia Magennis

4 Jan 2022

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Olivia Magennis

Tel: 02077977900 | magennis@1gc.com
1GC Family Law 10 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London WC2A 3BP

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

London, South East

Maria Scotland

13 Dec 2021

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Maria Scotland

Tel: 07854610236 | mariascotland@aol.com
Chambers of David Josse QC 5 St. Andrew’s Hill,
London, London EC4V 5BZ

Maria practices exclusively in family law with a specialism in financial remedy applications and children money work.

Maria is well known at the Bar and has won an award for her work from the Bar Council. She is extremely warm and engaging with clients and opponents. As someone who is divorced and a single mother to two young daughters she understands all too well the emotional as well as financial impact family breakdown and court proceedings has upon clients, their children and family. However her warm approach with clients belies a tenacious and dogged approach with the other side and in court. She is trusted by several loyal instructing solicitors and members of the judiciary.

Her money/ financial practice concerns cases where the parties’ wealth is substantial or else the issues complex. She is regularly involved in cases where the asset wealth is several million, involving issues of serious non-disclosure, assets outside of the jurisdiction, international issues and family Trusts. Maria’s money work includes acting for the husband/ boyfriend, wife/ girlfriend or else third party intervener including on behalf of the Crown (in asset recovery cases). Maria also undertakes Trusts of Land Act 1996 (TOLATA) matters, concerning parties who were never married.

Maria is also a strong advocate in private children law disputes including financial claims on behalf of a child under Schedule 1. She is professional but empathetic, bringing to court proceedings the “human touch”.

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

London, South East

Samantha Hillas QC

29 Nov 2021

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Samantha Hillas QC

Tel: 0161 214 1500 | samantha.hillas@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk
38 Vernon Street
Liverpool, Merseyside L2 2AY

I deal exclusively with financial remedies work, specialising in complex cases, especially those involving marital agreements, trusts and corporate structures, cases involving non-disclosure and Schedule 1 Children Act claims.

I was a former solicitor and busy family barrister at the coal face of family courts of all levels across the country for 25 years before taking silk in 2020. I have been involved in a number of high-profile cases in England and the Isle of Man: from those involving assets in their millions to much more modest cases, taking in the whole range of financial remedies issues. I have a very broad and deep understanding of financial remedies work and take a genuine interest in the development of this area of law, especially how to resolve disputes in ways which reduce unnecessary costs and stress.

I speak regularly at seminars, conferences and other national family law events which, along with contributing to the monthly e-letter produced by the Judicial College, keeps me up to date with financial remedies law and practice.

I undertake private FDRs (out of court neutral evaluations) and, outside of family law, I sit as a judicial officer in rugby union cases, chairing panels for the RFU, European and World Rugby for disciplinary matters, competition appeals and safeguarding issues.

I am recommended as a Tier 1 advocate in the various legal directories (which are included on my chambers’ profile – please see link below) and am known for being friendly, approachable, and very down to earth.

Qualifications

Barrister, Collaborative Lawyer

Geographic Region

Channel Islands, East Midlands, East of England, International (outside the UK), Isle of Man, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber