Katie Cowton QC

22 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

Katie Cowton QC

Tel: 0207 7977837 | c.cowton@qeb.co.uk
Queen Elizabeth Building
3rd Floor
Chambers of Tim Amos QC
London EC4Y 9BS

Katie is an experienced family financial barrister used to dealing with complex divorce financial cases involving tax, trusts and international issues, pre-nuptial agreements, and legal arguments. She predominantly is instructed to appear in the High Court and Central Family Court in London. She also deals with Schedule 1 Children Act financial applications. Katie sits as a Family Recorder on the SE Circuit, and has been a qualified Family Financial Arbitrator since 2017.

Qualifications

Barrister, Part-time Judge

Geographic Region

London, South East, South West, West Midlands

Simon Clark

12 Dec 2018

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

Simon Clark

Tel: 01483 375788 | simonclark@kgwfamilylaw.com
Morris House
34 Commercial Way
Woking
Surrey GU21 6EN

Simon has over 25 years experience as a specialist family lawyer. He was previously a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel representing children and parents in complex and serious cases.
His current private law children practice covers all issues involving married and unmarried parent. Cases range from where a child should reside and how much time a child should spend with each parent. In addition cases may deal with specific questions including where a child should be educated or how a child should be known.

In addition to being an arbitrator I am an accredited mediator qualified to see children in direct consultation in mediation. I practice as a collaborative lawyer.
I believe that Arbitration is an ideal process that can help parents efficiently, cost effectively and fairly resolve their disputes where an adjudication is needed. This may be following a mediation process that was unable to resolve all of the issues in dispute or simply as an alternative to lengthy and costly court proceedings.

Arbitration can resolve not only the bigger questions of living arrangements but also effectively determine discrete issues including Christmas and birthdays contact and handover venues.

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

London, South East

James Snelus

12 Dec 2018

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 Snelus

Tel: 0115 9503503 | james.snelus@stmarys.flc.co.uk
St Mary’s Chambers,
24-26 High Pavement Lace Market
Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire NG1 1HN

A specialist in matrimonial finance TOLATA and inheritance disputes. As a practitioner, James has nineteen years experience dealing with cases involving third party claims, complicated business structures and matters with international elements. A Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

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

Zen Thompson

12 Dec 2018

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

Zen Thompson

Tel: 01763 241261 | Zen.Thompson@curwens.co.uk
Curwens Solicitors
17 High Street
Royston
Hertfordshire SG8 9AA

As well as being a Children Scheme Arbitrator, Zen has been a family law solicitor for over 20 years and is also a family and civil mediator. Zen is a member of the Law Society Family Panel, an accredited member of the Law Society Family Mediation Panel, an assessor for the Law Society, and a member of Resolution, the Family Mediation Council and the Civil Mediation Council. He is a Resolution Accredited specialist in Complex Financial Remedies and Private Children Law. As a collaborative lawyer, Zen is a member of the Hertfordshire and Cambridge groups for collaborative lawyers and mediators. As a mediator, Zen is specially qualified to meet children in mediation, known as Child Inclusive Mediation or Direct Child Consultation. In this role, Zen has met with children on numerous occasions.

As a family law solicitor, Zen has a wide experience of dealing with children matters, and has represented clients successfully as advocate at several final hearings on children matters, so has a good understanding of how children matters are looked at by the Court. Zen sees the benefits of Children Arbitration as providing a legally binding outcome provided by a named legal specialist in children matters who deals with the matter throughout at a time and place convenient to the parties.

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

East of England, London

Fiona Hay

30 Oct 2018

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

Fiona Hay

Tel: 0844 561 7135 | clerks@harcourtchambers.co.uk
Harcourt Chambers
Churchill House,
38 St Aldate’s
Oxford OX1 1BN

Fiona has been a barrister since 1989. She is an experienced family law specialist and has a practice at the bar and as an arbitrator since 2017 dedicated to financial remedy work. She also sits as a private FDR judge.

Fiona has particular expertise in cases involving complex assets including trusts, family businesses and companies. Her depth of experience enables her strongly to recommend ADR for its effectiveness in delivering workable resolutions with less distress, delay and expense to the parties. She has flexible arbitration practice offering paper-based awards as well as awards following hearings, together with directions hearings in any format that may be convenient to the parties.   Fiona is a member of Harcourt Chambers’ team of specialist arbitrators.

Fiona has been a Recorder on the Midland Circuit since 2008 and since 2013 has been authorised to sit in the High Court. She is an authority on pensions in divorce and is joint author of the leading textbook on that subject. Fiona sits on the Pensions Advisory Group and is a reviewer for Advocate, the Bar Pro Bono Unit.  She is recognised for her excellence in Legal 500 and Chambers UK Bar directories annually.

Based in Oxfordshire, Fiona will undertake arbitrations throughout the South East and Midlands, and on remote platforms.

Qualifications

Barrister, Part-time Judge

Geographic Region

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