Financial Remedies Journal

HHJ Edward Hess, Circuit Judge, Lead Judge London FRC, Deputy National Lead Judge FRC

His Honour Judge Edward Hess is a Circuit Judge, Lead Judge for the London FRC, Deputy High Court Judge and Deputy National Lead Judge of the Financial Remedies Court and Co-Chair of the Pensions Advisory Group.

Rhys Taylor is a barrister at The 36 Group. He is a member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, the sub-committee of the Online Procedure Rule Committee and the Pension Advisory Group. Bencher of the Inner Temple. Contributing Editor to The Family Court Practice and co-author of Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Guide. Regular lecturer including to the Judicial College. Rhys is an arbitrator, mediator and a neutral/evaluator in the private FDR setting.

District Judge Sheren Guirguis sits at Liverpool Civil and Family Court, sitting exclusively on family cases, including complex financial remedy cases. As a barrister, her practice was predominately family finance work.

Barrister and Joint Head of Chambers at 29 Bedford Row (London). Door Tenant at St. Ives (Birmingham). IFLA arbitrator and PFDR/ENE tribunal. Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2021 (previously Recorder of the Family Court from 2016). Bencher of the Middle Temple. Editor of the family law chapters of Foskett on Compromise (Ninth Edition, 2019). Regular lecturer including at the Judicial College. Co-Chair of the Bar Council’s Services Appointment Panel. Trustee of FreeBar, a network promoting LGBT+ equality and inclusion.

Sam Hillas is a senior member of SJB’s matrimonial finance team, dealing exclusively with financial remedy work. Commended by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 as a “charismatic and client-friendly advocate” who “works like a Trojan”, Sam specialises in high net worth and/or complex cases, especially those involving marital agreements, trusts and corporate structures, cases involving non-disclosure and Schedule 1 Children Act.

Alexander Chandler KC FCIArb is a barrister at 1 King’s Bench Walk and a door tenant at Wilberforce, specialising in financial remedies, Schedule 1 and TLATA. Alexander sits as a Recorder in the family court and crown court,and is authorised to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge, private FDR judge and arbitrator. Website: familybrief.org

Jo is a partner and Head of Family at Mayfair firm Forsters LLP. She specialises in financial remedies on divorce for high net worth couples, both in the context of complex litigation, often with an international element, and in her mediation practice. She also has extensive experience in children work. A former Chair of Resolution, Jo heads its Family Law Reform Group and in that role has lobbied for law reform, given evidence to parliamentary committees and has featured extensively in broadcast and print media. She is currently involved in the Fair Shares project and working with various not-for-profit organisations on the Parents Promise initiative.

Helen is a barrister and arbitrator at Pump Court Chambers working in the fields of matrimonial finance and inheritance, trusts and estates. She complements that with private Children Act 1989 work. She writes and lectures frequently on matters of interest, including document manipulation, cryptoassets, financial provision for adult children and issues arising in TLATA and proprietary estoppel. She has a particular interest in Italian law and culture.

Michael Allum is a Solicitor and Partner at The International Family Law Group LLP. He specialises in finance cases with a particular emphasis on matters with an international element. He is also regularly instructed on cases regarding financial provision after an overseas divorce (Part III).

Emma Hitchings is a Professor of Family Law at Bristol University and has undertaken a range of empirical studies on financial remedies and family justice issues. She is the co-editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and is co-author of Bromley's Family Law (OUP, 2021).

Roger Isaacs is an award-winning chartered accountant and experienced expert witness. He is a partner in Milsted Langdon LLP, a regional accountancy practice with offices in London and the South West of England. Roger lectures and writes regularly on accountancy related topics in the context of separation and divorce.

is a barrister at Gatehouse Chambers, an arbitrator and Deputy District Judge, whose practice encompasses trusts of land, Inheritance Act claims, and probate disputes.

Joe is a junior barrister at QEB. He has a specialist matrimonial practice, with a focus on financial remedies and cases brought under TLATA 1996. He has appeared in several well-known reported cases and writes and lectures frequently on a variety of topics.

Henrietta is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court, specialising in financial remedy cases. She has had over 50 articles and case summaries published across various family law platforms. Henrietta has also worked as a Judicial Assistant in the Family Division of the High Court.