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Hannah Budd
Solicitor
Email: hannah.budd@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Hannah Budd is a solicitor at iFLG. Having studied Law and Business Studies at Warwick University she continued her legal studies at the College of Law in Guildford.
Hannah qualified in September 2008 at a large firm in Surrey before joining iFLG in January 2010.
Hannah has experience of a wide range of family matters with a particular emphasis on resolving financial disputes.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Resolution
Lucy Loizou
Associate
Email: lucy.loizou@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Lucy is a Solicitor and Associate with iFLG. H Lucy είναι δικηγόρος και συνεταίρος με το iFLG
Lucy undertakes complex financial and children disputes. She has worked on a number of cases involving high net worth issues often involving an international element.
Lucy has acted for a number of high profile individuals and assisted in resolving their disputes swiftly and discretely. Lucy has advised clients with difficult corporate interests and has had experience of dealing with awkward partnership issues. She has experience in financial cases involving foreign trusts. Lucy also advises clients considering entering into pre-nuptial agreements and co-habitation agreements and those seeking emergency injunctions.
Her children law experience has involved issues of residence and contact as well as obtaining preventative action as necessary in the best interests of the children. Lucy has also conducted cases in which parents want either to relocate with a child out of the jurisdiction or to prevent such a relocation from taking place. Lucy has also had experience in international child abduction work in the High Court.
Lucy undertakes some of her own advocacy and obtained distinction in an advocacy training course.
Lucy has had articles published in legal journals. She has also had experience dealing with the national media.
Lucy is Cypriot and fluent Greek speaker.
H Lucy είναι δικηγόρος και συνεταίρος με το iFLG
H Lucy αναλαμβάνει τις σύνθετες οικονομικές και διαφωνίες παιδιών. Έχει εργαστεί σε διάφορες περιπτώσεις που περιλαμβάνουν τα υψηλά καθαρά άξια ζητήματα που περιλαμβάνουν συχνά ένα διεθνές στοιχείο.
H Lucy έχει ενεργήσει για διάφορα άτομα μεγάλης ακτινοβολίας και έχει βοηθήσει να επιλύσει τις διαφωνίες τους γρήγορα και ασυνεχώς. H Lucy έχει συμβουλεψει τους πελάτες με τα δύσκολα εταιρικά ενδιαφέροντα και είχε την εμπειρία τα αδέξια ζητήματα συνεργασίας. Έχει την εμπειρία σε οικονομικές περιπτώσεις που περιλαμβάνουν τις ξένες εμπιστοσύνες. Το Lucy συμβουλεύει επίσης τους πελάτες που θεωρούν στις προγαμιαίες συμφωνίες συμφωνιών και συγκατοίκησης και εκείνους που επιδιώκουν τις εντολές έκτακτης ανάγκης.
Η εμπειρία νόμου παιδιών της έχει περιλάβει τα ζητήματα της κατοικίας και της επαφής καθώς επίσης και λαμβάνοντας την προληπτική δράση όπως απαραίτητη στα συμφέροντα των παιδιών. H Lucy έχει διευθύνει επίσης περιπτώσεις στις οποίες οι γονείς θέλουν είτε να επανεντοπίσουν με ένα παιδί από την αρμοδιότητα είτε να αποτρέψουν έναν τέτοιο επανεντοπισμό από την πραγματοποίηση. H Lucy είχε επίσης την εμπειρία στη διεθνή εργασία απαγωγής παιδιών στο ανώτατο δικαστήριο.
H Lucy αναλαμβάνει μερικές από την υπεράσπιση και την αποκτηθείσα διάκρισή της σε ένα εκπαιδευτικό μάθημα υπεράσπισης.
H Lucy έχει δημοσιεύσει τα άρθρα στα νομικά περιοδικά. Είχε επίσης την εμπειρία που εξετάζει τα εθνικά μέσα.
H Lucy είναι κυπριακός και ρευστός ελληνικός ομιλητής.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Resolution
Law Society
Founder and Past chair Surrey Young Resolution
Co-ordinator of establishing Young Resolution groups across the country
Elected member Surrey Resolution Committee
Member of Resolution’s National Membership Development Committee
Resolution
Law Society
Ιδρυτής και νέο ψήφισμα του Surrey Young Resolution
Συντονιστής της δημιουργίας των νέων ομάδων ψηφίσματος σε ολόκληρη τη χώρα
Εκλεγμένη Επιτροπή ψηφίσματος του Surrey Resolution Committee
Μέλος της εθνικής Επιτροπής ανάπτυξης ιδιότητας μέλους του ψηφίσματος
Katie Harris
Paralegal
Email: enquiries@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 3178 5668
Fax: +44 (0) 20 3178 5669
Katie is a Paralegal at iFLG. She assists on cases, court work and client matters. She has a First Class B.Sc degree in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has studied law and psychology. She has a good working knowledge of Spanish.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Rebecca Stammers
Legal Secretary
Email: rebecca.stammers@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0) 203 178 5669
Rebecca has 22 years’ secretarial experience gained at law practices in Central London and joined iFLG from the family department of a City Law firm.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Colette Williams
Legal Secretary
Email: colette.williams@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Colette is an experienced legal secretary. She has worked as a PA and secretary for number of specialist Family Departments in London and regional firms for the past 10 years and joined iFLG from the family department of a City Law firm.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Stuart Clark
Lawyer
Email: stuart.clark@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Stuart is a lawyer at iFLG. He obtained a law degree and completed his Bar Vocational Course with a “Very Competent” grade at the University of Cardiff. Stuart joined iFLG in September 2009 after 3 years experience as part of the Family Law team of a City Law firm. He is an assistant to the fee earners in the practice. He undertakes research, drafts documentation and attends Court on a regular basis.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Lucy Greenwood
Partner
Email: lucy.greenwood@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Lucy Greenwood is a solicitor and partner at iFLG.
Lucy has extensive experience in cases including complex financial disputes and consequential issues concerning children arising from marital/relationship breakdown. She regularly advises on premarital agreements and cohabitation issues. Many of her cases have an international dimension.
Lucy has a broad depth of experience and knowledge in resolving family issues having specialised exclusively in the field of family law for the last 13 years.
Lucy trained at a specialist family law firm in Central London and joined iFLG as a partner from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP in September 2009.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
- Resolution
- The Law Society
- The Association of Women Solicitors
- Reunite
Helen Blackburn
Partner
Email: helen.blackburn@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Helen Blackburn is a solicitor and partner at iFLG.
Helen specialises in family law concerning children and has a particular expertise in child abduction law and children cases with an international dimension (adoption, Wardship, leave to remove, Brussels IIr etc).
She is listed as a specialist in “Family:Cross-Border Child Work” in Chambers and Partners.
Helen writes for various legal journals/publications and was most recently commissioned to write an article for “Family Advocate”, the American Bar Association Family Law publication.
Helen worked in the Family Department of Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP before joining iFLG as a partner in September 2009.
Specialist Appointment/Qualifications
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
- Resolution
- Reunite
- The Law Society
Carolynn Usher
Partner
Email: carolynn.usher@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0) 203 178 5669
Carolynn is a solicitor, mediator, collaborative lawyer and partner at iFLG
Carolynn has a formidable expertise in all areas of child law.
Carolynn is a Resolution Accredited Specialist Family Lawyer (abduction and private children cases). She is a long standing member of the Resolution International Committee and Reunite Legal Advisory Panel. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP). She is a member of several child agencies including the House of Commons Working Group on child abduction and is a member of the President of the Family Division’s International Committee.
Carolynn is regularly invited to appear on TV and radio to comment on current family law issues and regularly lectures and contributes to Family Law publications/journals.
Carolynn has been a Partner and the Head of the Family Department of Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP for many years and joined iFLG as a Partner in September 2009
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
- Member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP)
- Reunite Legal Advisory Panel
- Member of the Resolution International Committee
- Member of the House of Commons Working Group on child abduction
- Member of the Lord Justice Thorpe’s International Committee
- Resolution Accredited Specialist Family Lawyer (abduction and private children cases)
- American Association of Counsel for Children.
- BAAF
- The Law Society
Carmel Brown
Trainee Solicitor
Email: carmel.brown@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)20 3178 5668
Fax: +44 (0) 20 3178 5669
Carmel is a trainee solicitor at iFLG. She obtained a law degree at the University of Sheffield. She undertakes research, drafts documentation and attends Court on a regular basis
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Mandeep Dhami
Solicitor
Email: mandeep.dhami@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 3178 5668
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 3178 5669
Mandeep is a solicitor at iFLG. She graduated in law from Leicester University and joins us from a large firm of solicitors in the Midlands. Although Mandeep undertakes all issues that arise in a family or relationship breakdown, her particular specialism is in international child abduction and international child contact disputes. Mandeep has had much experience in advising and acting for both Plaintiff and Defendants in Hague and Non Hague cases for a number of years.
Mandeep has worked for reunite, the leading UK charity advising parents in respect of dealing with international child abduction. Mandeep advised parents on the reunite advice line and was one of the coordinators who undertook research for the media coverage of a number of international child abduction cases. She also assisted in the collation of statistics for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and for The Department of Constitutional Affairs.
Mandeep speaks fluent Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Lee De Maertelaere
Litigation Support Executive
Email: enquiries@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 3178 5668
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 3178 5669
Lee is a Litigation Support Executive at iFLG. He provides general office support within the practice
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Jenny Green
Solicitor
Email: jenny.green@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 3178 5668
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 3178 5669
Jenny is a solicitor at iFLG. She studied Law at the University of Birmingham and graduated with an LLB. Jenny then remained in Birmingham to complete her Legal Practice Course at the College of Law. Prior to her career in the law, Jenny worked at a boutique recruitment consultancy in the West End. Jenny trained at a large regional law firm in the Thames Valley and qualified as a solicitor in 2008 when she joined iFLG
Jenny undertakes a wide spectrum of legal issues resulting from family and relationship breakdown. She has experience in complex areas of family finance in the Principal Registry of the Family Division and in the High Court. She also handles cases concerning contact and residence of children and applications for permission for a parent to permanently take a child to live with them abroad. Many of Jenny’s cases involve an international element.
Jenny was previously known as Jenny Donaldson
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Resolution
Catherine Evans
Legal Secretary
Email: catherine.evans@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)20 3178 5668
Fax: + 44 (0) 20 3178 5669
Catherine is a very experienced PA and secretary, having worked in family law practices for a number of years.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Jay Shah
Head of Accounts
Email: enquiries@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Jay is Head of Accounts at iFLG. Jay has many years experience in accounting in London and the Home Counties. Jay manages The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s accounts procedure within the practice. He, together with Susan Lewis, manage any financial issues that arise for clients within the practice.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Clare Fraser
Legal Secretary
Email: clare.fraser@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Clare is a very experienced secretary. She has worked in a number of specialist Family Departments in London and regional firms for the past 12 years.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
Punam Denley
Partner
Email: punam.denley@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Punam Denley is a solicitor and a partner at iFLG. She specialises in all aspects of family law, including complex financial issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship. She handles high net worth financial cases, often involving partnerships, companies and trusts. She deals with international children work, and many of her cases have cross-jurisdictional elements.
Punam is a trained mediator and collaborative lawyer, an active member of the London Collaborative pod, and a founding member of the Berkshire and Oxfordshire pods.
She has been elected to sit on Resolution’s London Region Committee.
She is a regular lecturer, presenter and speaker at training events for other professionals and a frequent contributor to various professional journals including a book on family law published by the Law Society and Resolution, the association for family solicitors, called the ‘Resolution Family Law Handbook’, now in its second edition, and sole author of a self-help guide to family law for Lawpack to be published in 2010. She has been interviewed by LNTV and other programmes.
Memberships include the Institute of Directors, Liberty, Reunite and Resolution, and in the past she has been actively involved with the following committees: Legal Aid, Children and CSA committee for many years. She has liaised with MPs etc on proposed CSA legislation in 2003 and 2008, involved in consultation papers on children legislation, eg input into the ‘Making Contact work’ paper, amongst others.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
- The Law Society’s Family Law Panel
- The Solicitors Family Law Association (SFLA)
- Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) Children Committee
- Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) Child Support Committee
- Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) London Region Committee
- ADR Family Mediator
- The Institute of Directors
- Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) Collaborative Lawyer
- Reunite
- Liberty
- The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
- London Collaborative Lawyers Group
Susan Lewis
Practice Manager
Email: susan.lewis@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Susan is the iFLG Practice Manager. She has a wealth of Office/Practice Management experience gained within both UK and US Law Firms.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
David Hodson
Consultant
Email: david.hodson@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
David Hodson is a highly experienced family law dispute resolution specialist, especially involving an international element or complex assets or issues
He is a
- English solicitor (1978 and accredited 1996),
- mediator (1997),
- family arbitrator (2002),
- Deputy District Judge sitting at the High Court of the Principal Registry of the Family Division, London (1995)
- Australian (NSW) solicitor and barrister (2003) and mediator
He is a joint founder and a consultant at iFLG
He is one of the world’s leading family lawyers.
David was a partner in City of London firm Theodore Goddard as head of their Family Law Department and then Frere Cholmonley Bischoff (later Eversheds). In 1995, he was joint founder of probably the world’s first metropolitan practice to combine family lawyers, mediators and counsellors and with an emphasis on a conciliatory and holistic approach. It was subsequently copied in many practices across the world. From 2003 to 2005 he worked in Sydney for a leading Sydney family law firm, requalifying as an Australian lawyer. He retains his entitlement to practice in Australia.
He is past chairman of the Resolution/Solicitors Family Law Association’s Financial Provision Reform Committee, Training Committee and Good Practice Committee and a founder member of its International Committee. He is a member of the Law Society’s Family Law Protocol Committee. He is a member of the Family Justice Council International Committee. He is past vice chair of the UK College of Family Mediators, the umbrella organisation for family mediation. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He is chair of the Family Law Review group of the Centre for Social Justice which in July 2009 produced a report “Every Family Matter”, a ground breaking set of major reforms of all aspects of family law, in order to support families, marriage and children. It has been well received and parts have already been endorsed by the political parties and many involved in family law. Details can be found via our Home page and www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk
He is author of “Divorce Reform: a Guide for Lawyers and Mediators”, “The Business of Family Law”, “the SFLA/Resolution Guide to International Family Law” and consulting editor of “Butterworth’s Family Law in Europe”.
In May 2008, his book “Practical Aspects of International Family Law” was published by Jordans. It is probably the leading textbook on the international aspects of family law work. With Ann Thomas, he is author of “When Cupids Arrow crosses National Boundaries: A Guide for interntaional families”. Both books are available via iFLG
David also writes a weekly column for Jordan’s e-newletter on International Family Law matters
He is an Accredited Specialist (with portfolios in Substantial Assets and International Cases), a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a past trustee of Marriage Resource and a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. He is a member of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Law Commission in respect of their work on Marital Agreements, and of the Advisory Board of the Financial Services Authority on provision of information for separating and divorcing couples.
David has written and spoken extensively on family law including many conferences abroad. More details are at www.davidhodson.com
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
- Solicitors Family Law Association (SFLA/resolution) Good Practice Committee, past chair
- SFLA Training Committee, past chair
- SFLA Ancillary Relief Reform Committee, past chair;
- SFLA National Committee past Member (8 years)
- SFLA International Committee, founder member,
- President’s International Committee
- Chair, Family Law Review group of Centre for Social Justice
- Law Society’s Financial Provision Reform Committee and Protocol Committee, member
- SFLA Directive ADR Working Party, chair.
- UK College of Family Mediators, former elected governor and vice chair
- International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Fellow
- Marriage Resource, former trustee
- Lawyers Christian Fellowship, member and convenor of Family Law Section
- English Law Society, member
- Law Council of Australia (Family Law Section), member
- International Bar Association, member
- NSW Law Society, member
- Advisory Board, Law Commission (Marital Agreements)
- Advisory Board, Financial Services Authority (provision of information for separating and divorcing couples)
Ann Thomas
Managing Partner
Email: ann.thomas@iflg.uk.com
Telephone: +44 (0)203 178 5668
Fax: +44 (0)203 178 5669
Ann Thomas is a solicitor, civil and family mediator, a trained collaborative lawyer and the Managing Partner at iFLG. She specialises in all aspects of family law, including complex financial issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship. She handles high net worth financial cases, often involving partnerships, companies and trusts. She regularly advises on prenuptial agreements and cohabitation issues. She is recognised as a leading international children lawyer. Many of Ann’s family cases have an international element. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the world’s leading organisation of peer elected top family lawyers dealing with international work.
She is an advanced accredited solicitor (The Law Society’s Family Law Panel).
She is a member of the lawyers network of Reunite, the leading UK charity specialising in international parental child abduction and which provides advice, information and support to parents, family members and guardians who have had a child abducted or who fear child abduction.
She is a chair of the Resolution International Committee and a past member of the London Regional Committee of Resolution (formerly known as SFLA). Ann is former chair of the Family Law Steering group of LawNet and former President and founder of the Eurojuris International Family Lawyers Practice Group whose headquarters are in Brussels. She is a member of The International Bar Association and the Institute of Directors. She is a member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
She has written a number of articles on the recent developments in family law and has also presented seminars on international aspects of family law in this country and in other European countries. Ann also regularly lectures to the legal profession both in this country and abroad. She has recently been involved in training family Judges in Serbia in the Hague Convention and international family law. She attended the Australian family lawyers conference in Perth in October 2006 and Adelaide in April 2008.
Ann is often asked by the media to comment on topical issues in family law. She has been in a number of high profile reported cases.
She has been Partner and Head of the Family Department of a Mayfair firm and previously was Head of Department at a large regional firm in Cambridge.
Specialist Appointments/Qualifications
- The Law Society’s Family Law Panel (Advanced Accreditation)
- Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- The International Bar Association
- The Solicitors Family Law Association (SFLA)
- Former Chair of the Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) International Committee
- Former member of Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) London Regional Committee
- Resolution (formerly known as the SFLA) Family Mediator
- Former Chair of LawNet Family Lawyers Group
- Former Chair Eurojuris International Family Lawyers Group
- The Scottish Family Law Association
- The Institute of Directors
- International Academy of Collaborative Lawyers
- Law Council of Australia, Family Law Section
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