Revealed: Britain’s top 50 divorce lawyers
There are new entrants to both the Top Ten and the Top Recommended categories in this year’s Spear’s Family Law…
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As the political parties prepare their manifestos, William Cash offers his manifesto for Britain’s £127 billion tourism industry in the…
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London claims third place in the top 100 restaurants ranking
London has the third highest number of top 100 restaurants in the world – behind New York and Paris, according…
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Wanted: HNWs to save London’s Garden Bridge
It’s not too late to save the £200m Garden Bridge, the capital’s proposed new ‘floating garden’ over the Thames, writes…
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CAMILLA BALDWIN
When Camilla Baldwin took some time off to have her children twelve years ago, the founder of the eponymous niche…
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MELISSA LESSON
Unusually for a family lawyer, Melissa Lesson spent two years at the bar before joining Mishcon de Reya in 2000.…
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ALEX VERDAN QC
Peers attest that the bar’s ‘go-to children silk’ is quick to put clients at ease with his ‘down-to-earth and diplomatic’…
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LUCY STONE QC
Lucy Stone is a big-money heavyweight and ‘one of the most impassioned advocates at the family law bar’ who will…
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AMY KISSER
QEB’s rising star Amy Kisser is rated as ‘ferociously bright’ with an ability to ‘hold her own against any silk’…
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ANNA WORWOOD
When one looks at her last year, it’s no surprise that peers consider Anna Worwood one of the brightest family…
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NICHOLAS WESTLEY
‘The fall in the value of the pound has thrown up some interesting issues,’ says Nicholas Westley. One of his…
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JOE VAITILINGAM
‘You get Magic Circle quality service, you get our brains, but without the ginormous price tag of our competitors,’ Joe…
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Spoils (of war) alert: the government’s new framework on art and armed conflict explained
As the government seeks to tighten rules on cultural property obtained in armed conflicts, there are things collectors need to…
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RAYMOND TOOTH
Raymond Tooth is a celebrity, whose hard-fought battles (including on behalf of the wives of Jude Law, Eric Clapton and…
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ERICA SHELTON
‘A solid, old-school lawyer,’ one family head of a competitor firm tells Spear’s in commending Erica Shelton. The Bloomsbury-born partner…
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MARK HARPER
‘I’ve had clients sobbing hysterically when I said, “You have to file for divorce right now,”’ says family law heavyweight…
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JULIAN RIBET
Praise abounds for Julian Ribet. ‘A boy wonder grown into Superman!’ one contemporary tells us. A QC dubs him ‘an…
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Non-dom reform: not as dead as you think
Forget what you may have heard, there’s a good chance the government may want to revisit the changes to the…
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BARONESS SHACKLETON
Fiona Shackleton is regarded as one of the best family lawyers of her generation, but one peer is prepared to…
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DEBBIE CHISM
When Debbie Chism last spoke to Spear’s she told us that she had a client who resembled James Bond. ‘I’m…
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