Caitlin Jenkins

11 Mar 2019

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

Caitlin Jenkins

Tel: 01223 222520 | caitlin.jenkins@mills-reeve.com
Botanic House
100 Hills Road
Cambridge CB2 1PH

I am an experienced family lawyer with 25 years of experience in helping clients resolve disputes through a variety of processes, including Court process, Mediation, Collaborative law and Arbitration. I have particular experience of cases involving complex issues such as businesses (including owner managed businesses and farms), trusts, pensions and international issues.

I understand that all families are different and in all my work, I am motivated by a wish to help couples resolve their disputes and move forward.

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

East of England, International (outside the UK), London, South East

Carl Reed

4 Feb 2019

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

Carl Reed

Tel: 01287 633331 | carl@kathywebb.com
Walton Galleries
Walton Terrace
Guisborough
N Yorkshire TS14 6QG

I have been a Member of the Law Society Children Panel for over 20 years and specialised in children and family work for my whole career. I frequently represent children in both public and family Law disputes. I am a trained mediator but have chosen not to take up that discipline, preferring the more legal forum of arbitration.

I have always adopted a robust attitude to family cases, and in true Yorkshire style have never been afraid to call “a spade a spade”.

Qualifications

Solicitor

Geographic Region

North East, Yorkshire and The Humber

Suzanne Syme

4 Feb 2019

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

Suzanne Syme

Tel: 020 7353 6961 / 0844 5617 135 | clerks@harcourtchambers.co.uk
Harcourt Chambers
2 Harcourt Buildings
Temple
London EC4Y 9DB

Called to the Bar in 2004, Suzanne has specialised in matrimonial finance and the financial consequences of relationship breakdown since her pupillage. She has extensive experience of cases where complexities arise due to the nature or location of the parties’ assets, the source of their income or where there is intervention by a third party, including trusts.

Suzanne has a loyal following from her professional clients. She has established a solid reputation for providing sensible, practical and pragmatic solutions to clients however complex or difficult the circumstances. Suzanne qualified as an arbitrator in 2017 – at the time one of the youngest members of the Bar in the country to have done so.

A member of Harcourt Chambers’ team of specialist arbitrators,  Suzanne is also available to provide assistance to parties as a private FDR assessor.

Suzanne is recognised as a leader at the Bar by the Legal 500.

Based in London, Suzanne will undertake arbitrations nationwide, and on remote platforms.

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

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

Elspeth Thomson

29 Jan 2019

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

Elspeth Thomson

Tel: 0191 232 9547 | elspeth.thomson@davidgray.co.uk
David Gray Solicitors
Old County Court
56 Westgate Rd
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear NE1 5XU

I am a family solicitor with 25 years experience of representing family members in legal cases. I am also the managing partner of David Gray Solicitors LLP with responsibility for the strategic planning and operational running of the firm.
I am often asked to comment on legal issues in the media and have appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight, The Jeremy Vine Show, Radio 4’s Women’s Hour, Law in Action and Radio Newcastle; a selection of which is shown below. I read Law at Cambridge University and qualified as a Solicitor in 1994.
I hold the following accreditations and memberships :
• elected national committee member of Resolution which represents over 6000 family justice professionals throughout the country who are committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes
• co-chair of the Resolution legal aid committee.
• member of the Association of Lawyers for Children
• accredited as a member of the Law Society Family Panel and the Children Panel
• accredited by Resolution as a specialist lawyer in the areas of private children law and domestic abuse
• Higher Court Advocate
I am named as an eminent practitioner with Chambers and Partners, and a leading individual in Legal 500, the key independent legal directories.

Qualifications

Solicitor

Geographic Region

North East

Lucy Mead

29 Jan 2019

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

Lucy Mead

Tel: 0191 232 9547 | lucy.mead@davidgray.co.uk
David Gray Solicitors
Old County Court
56 Westgate Rd
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear NE1 5XU

I am a Partner and Head of the Family Department at David Gray Solicitors. I am a specialist family lawyer and have worked in family law since I qualified as a Solicitor in 2001. I am ranked in Chambers and Partners and am also named in the Legal 500.

I have many years of experience in dealing with the breakdown of all types of relationships and the issues that arise from this including divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships, arrangements for children, injunctions and financial issues. I am also a skilled advocate, experienced in representing clients in Court. I am a member of the Law Society Children Panel and am a Resolution accredited specialist in the areas of Financial Provision, Cohabitation Breakdown and Domestic Abuse. As a Higher Rights Advocate, I represent my clients at all levels of the Single Family Court. I am also a qualified Family Arbitrator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

Qualifications

Solicitor

Geographic Region

North East