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

James Ewins QC

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

James Ewins QC

Tel: 02077977837 | j.ewins@qeb.co.uk
Queen Elizabeth Building
Temple
London EC4Y 9BS

James specialises in complex matrimonial finance issues, including pre-nuptial contracts. He acts in a wide range of domestic and international cases at all levels of wealth, and has considerable experience of cases involving complex corporate and trust structures, internationally held assets, significant inherited and family wealth and complex tax as well as insolvency related issues. He also has experience of international forum shopping and a wide range of domestic and international enforcement issues.
James has acted in numerous complex and big money cases, both reported and not, including several leading cases. He appears frequently in the Family Court at the Royal Courts of Justice and the Central Family Court, and elsewhere around the country. James has appeared in several cases in the Court of Appeal and has represented clients at private FDRs, round-table meetings and in arbitrations. James was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2016 and is instructed both alone and with juniors from QEB and other chambers.
James is ranked in Chambers and Partners 2019, which has previously quoted: “James can cut through a brief to identify the magic number for settlement in lightning-quick time. Happily, his extraordinary intelligence combines with a down-to-earth nature and clients feel very safe in his hands.” James has been described as “a superb advocate” who is “thorough, careful and efficient” whose “first-rate advocacy is received well in court” and who is “equally charming as an advocate and opponent”.
Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

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

Christopher Hames KC

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

Christopher Hames KC

Tel: 07771780511 | ch@4pb.com
6th floor, St Martin’s Court Paternoster Square
London, London EC4M 7HP

I am a busy silk specialising in family disputes with an international element. My cases usually involve international families with disputes about jurisdiction, money and child welfare I am a member of chamber’s money and international children groups. I have represented clients in the UKSC, CJEU and Court of Appeal. I sit as a deputy High Court Judge and recorder in the family court where I am allocated to hear Financial Remedy Appeals. I am dual qualified as an arbitrator for both children and finance cases. I am a member of the FLBA International Committee and past chair of CALA (Child Abduction Lawyers Association). I am a trustee of CFAB (Children and Families across borders).

Qualifications

Barrister, Part-time Judge

Geographic Region

Channel Islands, East Midlands, East of England, Isle of Man, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber

Marcus Lazarides

23 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

Marcus Lazarides

Tel: 0207 797 7837 | m.lazarides@qeb.co.uk
Queen Elizabeth Building
Temple
London EC4Y 9BS

Marcus specialises in family law and in particular in financial disputes. Recommended as a leading practitioner in both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners where is it said of him that he is: ” spot-on in terms of his judgment, and it is clear that he is well respected by judges as a result” and “charming and calm under pressure, he prepares thoroughly and he is delightful with clients. He brings a balanced approach to advice and negotiations and is also a persuasive advocate.”

Qualified as an arbitrator since 2017 Marcus also has experience as an adjudicator in Private FDR’s.

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

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

Alexander Thorpe QC

23 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

Alexander Thorpe QC

Tel: 020 7797 7837 | a.thorpe@qeb.co.uk
Queen Elizabeth Building
Temple
London EC4Y 9BS

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region