Ian Walker

25 Jul 2016

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

Ian Walker

Tel: 01404 819098 | ianwalker@familylawandmediation.co.uk
East Devon Business Centre
Heathpark Way
Honiton
Devon EX14 1SF

I have been a member of the Law Society Children Panel since 1996. I regularly deal with complex problems regarding children’s lives.

I am also a Family Mediator – qualifying in 1996. I supervise other mediators and am able to meet with children as part of the mediation process.

In addition, I have served as a member of the Law Society Family Law Committee and as a trustee of the Family Mediators Association. I am the Chair of the Devon region of Resolution
Arbitration is about making good and speedy decisions for children. I believe that my mediation expertise helps me to understand better how parents can become stuck in dispute. I hope that this assists me in making determinations as an arbitrator which are child focused, fair and forward looking. I always endeavour to be sensitive.

I founded my own firm in 2013 which focuses on providing all dispute resolution options whilst using technology to keep our overheads low and our charges are extremely competitive within our local market – let alone London and the Home Counties. For example, we deliberately avoided expensive city centre premises. I am very willing to work for a fixed fee and to undertake Arbitration based on papers only. I am also willing to travel to undertake face-to-face arbitration hearings.

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

London, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands

Gillian Bishop

21 Jul 2016

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

Gillian Bishop

Tel: 020 7420 5000 | gb@flip.co.uk
1 Neal Street Covent Garden
London WC2H 9QL

Gillian is a director of Family Law in Partnership Ltd. She is a founding member of the firm, setting it up in 1995 to provide a distinctive client focused family law service. As an experienced family lawyer, Gillian wanted to create a firm for clients looking for a holistic approach to their divorce. Children arbitration is entirely in keeping with this approach.

Trained as a mediator and a collaborative lawyer Gillian is committed to seeking solutions outside the court arena. The values that Gillian applies to her work as a solicitor and mediator apply equally to her work as a children arbitrator.

In the 2016 Chambers directory Gillian was described as speaking “with years of experience and vast wisdom.” She is “always trying to provide solutions that are best for the family concerned“.

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

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

Michael Gouriet

23 Oct 2015

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

Michael Gouriet

Tel: 0207 597 6125 | michael.gouriet@withersworldwide.com
16 Old Bailey
London EC4M 7EG

Michael Gouriet qualified as a family law arbitrator in February 2014.

Michael joined Withers LLP in September 1993, and became a partner in the family law team in January 2002.

Michael advises on all aspects of family law with particular emphasis on:

  • the resolution of complex financial issues for wealthy individuals with international interests – and whether on divorce or the breakdown of unmarried relationships
  • trusts and inherited wealth
  • business interests
  • international child relocation
  • cohabitation disputes

Michael sits on the cohabitation working group of Resolution and is also a trained collaborative lawyer.

Michael is recommended as a leading family lawyer in Chambers & Partners, in which he has variously been described as:

  • ‘a real class act’; 
  • ‘measured, sensible and knows his law’;
  • ‘is just excellent and often sought after by high net worth individuals’;
  • ‘highly intelligent, very efficient and a pleasure to deal with – a really strong practitioner’.

Michael is listed in Spears’ Index of top family lawyers 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Michael is described in Citywealth’s Leaders List 2014 as ‘an exceptionally thorough and able solicitor…thinking outside and inside the box which so many of the bigger financial cases need’.

Michael acted in the following reported cases:

  • OS v DS [2004] creating a new precedent for asset-tracing;
  • in Tchenguiz-Imerman v Imerman [CA 2010], which changed the law on disclosure and confidentiality of documents in divorce proceedings;
  • and in the further reported decisions of Tchenguiz-Imerman v Imerman [2013] relating to the joinder of trust beneficiaries to financial proceedings on divorce and consequential disclosure.
  • C v D [2011] – international child relocation, which developed law in shared care arrangements

 

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Solicitor

Geographic Region

London, South East

Robert Adams

22 Oct 2015

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

Robert Adams

Tel: 01743 280131 | robert.adams@wmlaw.co.uk
21 St Mary Street
Shrewsbury SY1 1ED

Qualified as a solicitor in 1981 and have specialised in matrimonial law for the last 35 years. I deal with high net worth clients and have extensive experience acting in farming and armed forces matters.

A working knowledge of Russian and Spanish

I am willing to travel to accomodate parties as regards venue and willing to consider fixed fee arbitrations.

Qualifications

Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

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

Stewart Leech QC

21 Oct 2015

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

Stewart Leech QC

Tel: 020 7797 7837 | s.leech@qeb.co.uk
QEB 3rd Floor,
Queen Elizabeth Building,
Temple
London EC4Y 9BS

I have spent almost a quarter of a century as a court-based family lawyer. I have seen how, with dwindling resources and an ever increasing case load, the courts are struggling to provide the service most litigants want.

I firmly believe that arbitration is the key to unlocking the majority of family disputes quickly, cost-efficiently and confidentially.

I am experienced in all areas relating to family finance: married or unmarried, gay or straight. I have a great deal of experience in cases involving significant wealth but am also keen to arbitrate in cases where the assets are more modest.

I am bilingual in French and am happy to receive documentation without it being translated (this can save significant amounts in translation fees). I am also happy to conduct arbitrations in French if that assists and am happy to sit in France, Belgium or Switzerland. Please note, however, that only English law may be applied and my written award will be given in English (although I am happy to approve a translation to ensure that it is a faithful reproduction).

Qualifications

Barrister

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