Kevin is a master tactician and very well-regarded for international children work.
Jemma is the stand out solicitor for complex adoption, parentage and surrogacy disputes.
Janet is brilliant – she never gives up on a case and fights until the last for her clients.
Hannah is an exceptional lawyer who is caring, considerate and goes above and beyond.
Emma always looks for ways to support the client around proceedings, considering all the options to get the best possible outcome for them.
Catriona Allan is a very experienced solicitor and provides an excellent service to clients.
Trudi Featherstone provides strong, sensible and no-nonsense advice. She is forward thinking and respected by her peers. As an experienced mediator, she has the optimum blend of sensibility and empathy, enabling her to navigate clients through their often complex emotional influences. She expertly guides the clients through the mediation process and will find some common ground.
Thomas Brownrigg is a stand out family lawyer for finance and children disputes. Very good with cohabitation and modern family cases. Technically brilliant with a fine attention to detail. Tremendous lateral thinker. Extremely good at negotiation. Always popular with clients. Very good at difficult, challenging and acrimonious mediation cases.
Kevin Skinner knows everything about international family law cases. He acts for parents and children and has been involved in some of the key cutting edge cases.
Ann Thompson is a legend amongst family lawyers. Her client skills are exceptional and she is one of the most in-demand solicitors in London. She is available at all times of day to clients and goes the extra mile.
Janet Broadley is outstanding in children law, especially in international cases. She is rightly regarded as the best lawyer for representing children.
Jemma Dally is a Star amongst Stars. She works tirelessly for every client and has exceptional judgment.
Emma Sherrington is fantastic in all areas of private and public law children work. Really bright. Hugely experienced.
I believe anyone will be in safe hands with Thomas Brownrigg. An outstanding solicitor who made me feel at ease throughout the hearings and achieved the best result for my family.
Trudi Featherstone is known for her wisdom and thoroughness. A very experienced and accomplished mediator.
It has been incredible to work with Peggy Ray of Goodman Ray.
Her attention to detail is extraordinary. I have felt truly supported in what has been a difficult situation and because of her commitment, I have hope that our family situation can be resolved. A successful outcome for our family is everything to me and I know it is for Peggy too. I’m so grateful. I would recommended anyone to work with Goodman Ray, they are an amazing team.
Trudi Featherstone maintains a strong reputation as a litigator and mediator who handles children matters. She represents clients in a range of matters including cohabitation and jurisdictional disputes. Her experience also covers high-value financial remedy and Schedule 1 proceedings.
Emma Sherrington is extremely experienced and able. She can, and does, turn her hand to the whole range of children work, achieving outstanding outcomes for a variety of clients. Very highly recommended.
Having read your letter I would like to thank you for doing your duties emphatically and supporting me though this difficult time by your professionalism. At a time where I was being judged and condemned by various people you fought my corner I believed at the very least reflected my views and side of the story.
Trudi Featherstone is known for her wisdom and thoroughness. A very experienced and accomplished mediator.
Jemma is always thinking about the client and how to solve their problem.
I wanted to take the opportunity to extend my professional compliments regarding the excellent presentation of the most recent brief in the matter. It was very well considered and of enormous assistance.
She reads absolutely everything, analyses it and presents it in a way that is entirely sensible, and she’s hugely empathetic.
This is just an email to tell you how much I appreciate your guidance and hard work during these proceedings. I am very confident in saying that I wouldn’t be in the position I am in if it wasn’t for your hard work and guidance.
Kevin Skinner has a wide-ranging children law practice with significant experience in cross-border work. He frequently advises on jurisdictional and relocation disputes as well as international abduction and care proceedings that have international aspects.
“Emma is a solicitor who is diligent, dedicated and always on the ball.”
Goodman Ray is one of the leading children law firms in London with an excellent reputation. They attract and retain really good solicitors and it’s always a treat to work with them.
Jemma is the lawyer you want in your corner. Her knowledge of adoption law is incredible.
Peggy Ray has a powerful and acute intellect, and grapples imaginatively, with maturity of judgment, and (where appropriate] forcefully with difficult and challenging cases. She is a legendary class act.
Janet Broadley is an expert mediator and litigator with vast experience in Hague Convention proceedings such as international abduction cases. She garners praise for her expertise in jurisdictional disputes, and regularly represents parents in overseas relocations.
They are a match for any of the magic circle firms. They have expertise in both children and finance cases and have a significant number of outstanding lawyers.
The team was very thorough and responsive. They were quick to reassure me and to guide me whenever I contacted them in a panic, which was a real boon.
She is an outstanding solicitor. Her professionalism and efficiency promotes results, and her experience and mind create relief.
Catriona Allan is undoubtedly the best solicitor I have come across in the 12 years I have been practicing as a barrister…the energy she puts into defending clients never ceases to amaze me.’
Jemma Dally is a market leader in surrogacy and modern families work. She is enormously creative and always looking forward to push forward her clients’ cases.
He ensures his communication is excellent throughout and he retains a view of the big picture while also considering the detail.
Working with Novlet is always an immensely positive and motivating experience due to her passion and dedication to her clients which is as infectious as it is heartening in the often-beleaguered field of childcare law.
Ann Thompson is a practitioner who operate effectively at the highest level in children’s cases, including those with an international aspect.
Trudi Featherstone is meticulous in her approach with clients, consideration of the issues in hand and the subsequent preparation of documentation. She is fast becoming London’s preeminent mediator.
He is extraordinarily committed to his client; he’s able to build a very good empathy with clients and get the best from them.” “Kevin is always cool, calm, collected and gives clients good, no-nonsense advice.” “He is a big name in children law matters and he has great instincts.
An intellectually and emotionally intelligent lawyer with a very broad range of experience in all types of children work. He is unafraid to fight his client’s corner if it’s in their best interest.
Any client can be 100% sure that Kevin is on their side – his commitment really goes beyond the call of duty.
Trudi Featherstone fights her clients’ corner and they trust her experience and judgement.
I worked with Trudi and Hannah on a long-running, intractable and very difficult case. Hannah was excellent, performing way beyond her experience. She was on top of the detail, very efficient (with me, the client, the court and the opposition) and effective. I was also very impressed with her client-handling, which was exemplary and befitted a solicitor of far more experience than she in fact has. Furthermore, she appeared unflappable and calm, as well as good humoured at all times, despite the many (and unusual) which arose in the case.
Catriona Allan is knowledgeable on all aspects of childcare law.
Emma Sherrington and Ann Thompson are practitioners who also operate effectively at the highest level in children’s cases, including those with an international aspect, and I have worked in cases in which their effectiveness was well-demonstrated.
