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Date: 19 June 2025
Starts: 9:00 am
Ends: 5:00 pm
Venue: Bristol Old Vic
Location: King St, Bristol BS1 4ED
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Who Should Attend?
Our Family & Divorce team will be hosting a full day conference on divorce & financial remedies on Thursday, 19th June at The Bristol Old Vic.
The conference will provide the latest procedural, case law and legislative updates from our experienced lawyers and is recommended to all busy family law practitioners.
We look forward to welcoming our guest speaker, HHJ Charles Hyde KC.
Topics include:
- Pre-Nuptial Agreements: Has excess judicial discretion undermined their usefulness? Georgina Swinglehurst
- A brief overview of costs in financial remedy proceedings, Vivien Croly
- Matrimonialisation, Richard Norman
- Businesses and farms, Zoë Saunders and Nick Miller
- Isn’t divorce taxing enough? Simon Denton, Milsted Langdon
- Case law update, Sophie Smith-Holland and Chelsea Bartlett
- In the interim: MPS & LSPO, Bethany Scarsbrook
In the afternoon you will be able to choose between two interactive workshops:
- Workshop 1 – Third Parties: what to do when other people are financially entwined with the parties to a divorce, Jacqueline Humphreys and Bethany Scarsbrook
- Workshop 2 – Recalcitrant, delinquent, and non-compliant parties, Jack Harris
The team will be hosting a networking drinks reception at the end of the day – we hope you can join us!
Full programme to follow soon.
People

Nick Miller
- Call: 1994
Nick specialises exclusively in divorce and financial remedy cases. He has an in-depth knowledge and expertise of the issues and the law, including consideration of pensions and actuarial issues along with tax and commercial considerations. Prior to joining the...

Jacqueline Humphreys
- Call: 1994
Jacqueline is a confident and highly competent advocate, specialising in the financial aspects of relationship breakdown. She rejoined the St John’s Chambers Family & Divorce team from a chambers in Birmingham where she had an enviable reputation for...

Zoë Saunders
- Call: 2003
Zoë specialises in family finance work, representing clients in finance and divorce cases. Zoë regularly deals with high-net-worth clients involving company shareholdings, business valuations, family trusts, complex pensions and international assets. Zoe has a wealth of experience dealing...

Richard Norman
- Call: 2009
Richard is a family law specialist with particular expertise in financial remedies (Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989) as well as complex private law disputes concerning children. He has a busy Court...

Jack Harris
- Call: 2012
Jack is a specialist family barrister with a busy court-based practice and with a particular emphasis on financial remedies under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and Schedule 1 Children Act 1989. He is equally at home advising on...

Bethany Scarsbrook
- Call: 2014
Bethany specialises in financial remedy disputes and private children law, with particular experience in cases that involve cross-jurisdictional issues. She accepts instructions in all aspects of family law including: Financial Remedy Proceedings Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 Private...

Sophie Smith-Holland
- Call: 2015
Sophie is a specialist family law practitioner with a thriving junior practice across all of our family law practice areas, including: Children Private Law Children Public Law Divorce & Financial Remedies Part IV Family Law Act 1996 Schedule...

Georgina Swinglehurst
- Call: 2019
Georgina is a specialist family law barrister who acts in all areas of private family law, specifically financial remedy proceedings, private children disputes, issues of jurisdiction including international child relocation, cohabitation disputes and applications under the FLA 1996...

Vivien Croly
- Call: 2019
Vivien is a specialist family law barrister practising in all aspects of family law. Vivien has recently been nominated for ‘Family Law Young Barrister of the Year’ at the Family Law Awards 2024. Areas of expertise include: Financial...

Chelsea Bartlett
- Call: 2021
Chelsea is a specialist family law practitioner with a broad practice across all areas of family law. Areas of expertise: Children Private Law Children Public Law Divorce and Financial Remedies Part IV Family Law Act 1996 Schedule 1...

Jenny Wilson
- Call: 2021
Jenny accepts instructions in all areas of family law including: Children Private Law Divorce and Financial Remedies Part IV Family Law Act 1996 Children Public Law Jenny has a busy practice representing clients in financial remedies and Children...
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