PRE-ORDER - Pensions on Divorce: A Practioner's Handbook (4th Edition)

Edward Hess read Mathematics and then Law at Cambridge University. He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1985 and practised at Harcourt Chambers from 1985 to 2010. He was a District Judge (PRFD) at the Central Family Court from 2010 to 2015. He was a member of the Financial Remedies Working Group under Mostyn J. Since 2016 he has been a Deputy High Court Judge. In 2017 he was appointed as Deputy National Lead Judge of the Financial Remedies Courts. He is a Circuit Judge, has since 2021 been Lead Judge of the London Financial Remedies Court. He is also Co-Chair of the Pensions Advisory Group, Chair of the Editorial Board of the Financial Remedies Journal, a co-author of the Dictionary of Financial Remedies and Pensions and Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook, and series editor of the Dictionary of Private Children Law and the Dictionary of TLATA and Inheritance Act Claims. He is a Bencher of Middle Temple.

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.

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.

Jonathan Galbraith is a pensions actuary with 20 years of experience in the UK pensions industry. Since 2022, he has served as CEO of Mathieson Consulting Limited, the leading provider of actuarial expert witness services in England & Wales. He specialises in pensions settlements arising on divorce and has written over 800 such reports. Jonathan qualified as an actuary in 2009 and spent his formative years with PwC, advising employers on pension scheme liability management, scheme funding and benefit design.