Michele Friel

7 Nov 2017

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

Michele Friel

Tel: 0121 606 0500 | familyclerks@no5.com
No 5 Chambers
Fountain Court
Steelhouse Lane
Birmingham
W Midlands B4 6DR

Michele has extensive experience over 25 years in matters relating to children. Her practice now specialises in private children issues and she is able to bring her years of experience to complex, sensitive and often emotionally charged cases.
Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

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

Shiva Ancliffe

10 Oct 2017

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

Shiva Ancliffe

Tel: 020 7092 3777 | sa@coramchambers.co.uk
9-11 Fulwood Place
London WC1V 6HG

I have been a family barrister for 26 years and have a diverse children’s practice, often dealing with complex legal and factual disputes. I have the width and breath of experience to resolve children’s disputes fairly and expediently. I am a very good communicator and I am able to connect with a diverse range of people. I have been involved in mediating agreements for over 2 decades. I firmly believe in alternative forms of dispute resolution and seeking to avoid time consuming, expensive and bruising litigation. I believe that arbitration as a form of resolution of family cases is most effective. It allows the parties to invest in the process and therefore the outcome which is ultimately better for the parents and the children.
Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

London

Jonathan Tod

25 May 2017

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

Jonathan Tod

Tel: 0207 404 1044 | jtod@29br.co.uk
Chambers of Philip Crayford QC
29 Bedford Row
London WC1R 4HE

I am a specialist matrimonial finance practitioner with particular expertise in Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 proceedings. Schedule 1 proceedings are particularly apt for early intervention through the family arbitration Scheme in order to save costs. I have undertaken matrimonial finance work for over 20 years acting for both husband’s and wife’s in roughly equal numbers. I will strive to achieve fairness to both parties.

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

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

Sarah Evans

15 May 2017

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

Sarah Evans

Tel: 01392 285200 | sevans@magdalenchambers.co.uk
Magdalen Chambers
Victory House
Dean Clarke Gardens
Exeter
Devon EX2 4AA

Sarah has been a family law specialist for over 25 years and has practised as a Barrister since 2004. She specialises in cases involving what were formerly known as contact and residence issues, and removals from the jurisdiction. She represented the appellant fathers in Re W (Children) (2012) EWCA Civ 999 and Re H-B (Contact) (2015) EWCA Civ 389, the fathers in Re A & B (Contact) (No 4) 2015 EWHC 2839 (Fam) and the appellant grandmother in Re T (A Child) (2010) EWCA Civ 1527. She has built a strong practice representing parents and wider family members in complex and intractable disputes over children.

Prior to 2004, Sarah practised as an attorney in New York for seven years, where she worked for one of the leading family law firms. Her practice there included many high profile divorce and custody disputes. She appeared regularly in the New York State Supreme Court and the US District Court and in several notable & reported cases.

Sarah qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 1992 and has qualified and worked in three jurisdictions, having also been a solicitor in Edinburgh for three years. She maintains strong links with the New York and Scottish legal communities She is an experienced advocate in all three jurisdictions.

Sarah practised as a Mediator and Collaborative Lawyer both in the US and UK. She is a member of the Family Law Bar Association and the Western Circuit.

Sarah also represents clients under the Direct Access Scheme

Qualifications

Barrister, Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

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

Nigel Clarke

2 May 2017

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

Nigel Clarke

Tel: 01227 811740 | nigelclarke@familyresolution.co.uk
Canterbury Innovation Centre
University Rd
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7FG

Nigel is an experienced Collaboratively trained Family Solicitor and an Accredited Family Mediator dealing with a wide range of family matters, including financial issues and private children work through his own practice based in Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

Nigel passionately believes that ‘dispute resolution’ offers many clients a better way to resolve difficulties arising from separation and divorce.

Nigel is an Accredited Specialist with the Law Society Panels for Advanced Family and Family Mediation and is an Accredited Resolution Specialist for Finance and Children.

Nigel’s priority is to provide the highest quality advice, care and support to clients facing the pain and trauma of family breakdown in a sensitive, thoughtful way that meets the needs of the individual and their family.

Nigel has considerable experience of dealing with a wide range of family disputes including divorce, financial remedies, children, prenuptial agreements, cohabitation disputes and inheritance claims.

Nigel is a Resolution Trainer and also provides supervision, training and support to Solicitor Mediators and other Practitioners and is a Law Society Panel Assessor for the Advanced Family Law and Family Mediation Panels.
Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

London, South East, South West