Meet Our Faculty

Our trainers lead our courses, design course objectives and content and delivers it to delegates, supporting delegates in their learning every step of the way.

The experts in our faculty equip all learners with the knowledge and practical skills which meet the course objectives and any standards requirements applicable to the subject area.

 

Adele Ballantyne

Adele is an award-winning therapist and counsellor. She is co-chair of Resolution Parenting after Parting Committee and chair of the Future Practice group… Read more

 

 

 

Andrea Boutcher

Andrea is a solicitor, an accredited and practising family mediator, a PPC, mentor and trainer. She is a collaborative and hybrid mediation practitioner and has been assisting in family dispute resolution and working with separated families for over 30 years.. Read more

 

Alison Bull

Alison Bull Alison helps individuals, couples and families sort out family law issues in a calm, professional, and sensitive way, using whichever process will work best for the individual or family (mediation, the collaborative process, solicitor negotiation… Read more

 

Angela Lake-Carroll

Angela Lake-Carroll is a Reunite Trustee. She has over 30 years’ experience of working with separated families. She is a collaborative practitioner, an accredited and practising family mediator and a PPC and trainer, and is Chief Assessor to the Law Society’s.. Read more

 

 

Claire Webb

Claire has worked in family law since 1990, qualifying as a solicitor in 1998 and as a Mediator in 2004. She offers all non-court solutions, from legally aided and privately funded mediation to arbitration. Claire is a Professional Practice Consultant for mediators and a 1-2-1 mentor for Resolution.. Read more

 

 

Denise Ingamells

Denise qualified as a Family Mediation Council Accredited Mediator in 2002 and as a Professional Practice Consultant in 2005. She is also qualified to deliver Child Inclusive Mediation, and is the main author of the Separated Parents Information Programme.. Read more

 

 

Elaine Richardson

Elaine has worked as a family solicitor for over twenty-five years. She is a collaborative practitioner and accredited child inclusive mediator. Elaine supervises mediators and family lawyers, and is a mediation coach and trainer.. Read more

 

 

Ian Hawkins

Ian has been working in financial services for 35 years and has been working within the field of Financial Planning on Divorce for almost 25 years. Ian is a Chartered Financial Planner, Resolution Accredited Financial Planner and a Pensions on Divorce Expert (PODE) providing support for.. Read more

 

 

Ian Walker

Ian qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and was trained as mediator by Henry Brown and Felicity White in 1996 in the first round of Resolution (then SFLA) mediation training. Ian is particularly proud of being named the inaugural Resolution Regional Champion in the 2023 Awards for his very long-standing.. Read more

 

 

Jayne Wildish

“You can’t eat a brick” is Jayne Wildish’s most quoted phrase during the work she does with divorcing clients. Jayne sold her own financial planning business in 2019 and subsequently retrained as a divorce coach where she now combines specialist divorce coaching skills with .. Read more

 

 

Jacinta Gallant

Jacinta is a respected Canadian collaborative lawyer, mediator and educator. She is recognised internationally for her insightful and experiential approach to teaching and managing conflict, and has been welcomed as a trainer throughout the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.. Read more

 

 

Juliet Harvey

Legal Director Juliet Harvey from Birketts’ Family Team was granted honorary status of CILEX Companion at the CILEX Graduation ceremony held at Central Hall Westminster on 6 November 2021. Nominated by the organisation’s Board, Juliet received the highest level of membership awarded by CILEX in recognition of her track record of.. Read more

 

 

Karin Walker

Karin Walker is one of the UK’s best known dispute resolving practitioners. Based in Woking, she set up her own firm, KGW Family Law, in January 2012 with the attention of achieving satisfactory resolution for separating couples through constructive communication. As a mediator Karin is able to.. Read more

 

 

Lisa Grimmett

In 2010 Lisa trained as a Collaborative Lawyer; she is a member of Shropshire Collaborative Law Group. Lisa has specialised in family law throughout her career. In 2000 she was first accredited as a specialist in family law under the Law Society’s accreditation scheme. In 2004 she was appointed.. Read more

 

 

Margaret Kelly-Edwards

I am a consultant solicitor with Ketley Miller Joels a niche firm of family professionals based in Mayfair London. I am a skilled, talented and experienced family solicitor and practitioner, qualifying in the UK in 1982, and in Australia in 1985. I am an accredited mediator and now trained in.. Read more

 

 

 

Mary Raymont

Mary Raymont has been a family law solicitor for 31 years and a family mediator for 25 years. During this time Mary was head of the family team at a legal 500 law firm in the Southeast. Mary also taught an Advanced Diploma in Litigation for Law South in conjunction with Nottingham Law..  Read more

 

 

 

 

Nadia Beckett

 

 

Nicola Wallace

Prior to her call to the Bar in 2006, Nicola was a Solicitor and Partner in private practice for 15 years.  Throughout her career, she has specialised exclusively in Family Law. Nicola has extensive experience of private and publicly funded work and is both a Civil and Commercial and Family Mediator.. Read more

 

Nigel Clarke

Nigel is a Family Arbitrator, Hybrid Trained Family Mediator, Collaborative Solicitor, Family Law Supervisor and Resolution Trainer and PPC, supervising 16 consultees. He is a Trainer for Resolution’s Foundation Mediation Training and the Mental and Emotional Health module.. Read more

 

 

Peter Burgess

Peter specialises in both high value financial work on divorce and separation as well as complex children matters including crossborder relocations. Peter regularly advises on pre and post nuptial agreements, separation agreements and cohabitation agreements for high-net-worth individuals and… Read more

 

 

 

Rebecca Hawkins

Rebecca is a lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, parenting co-ordinator and family law supervisor. Rebecca co-presents the eight-day Resolution Mediation Foundation course and has written and presented non court resolution courses on the effects of conflict, separation and divorce on children.. Read more

 

 

Simon O’Connell

Simon is Regional Head of Evelyn Partners Family and Divorce Team for the South and Chair of their national oversight committee. Simon is a committee member of Resolution’s Training & Learning Committee, Kent Resolution and on the Steering Group for Supporting Separated.. Read more

 

 

 

Dr Sue Palmer-Conn

Dr Sue Palmer-Conn holds a PhD in Psychology and is a chartered psychologist. Sue retired from a 40-year career in higher education where she was a National and International Teaching Fellow well-known for innovation in teaching, learning and assessment. Sue is known as.. Read more

 

 

Suzanne Kingston

Often referred to as “the Queen of Arbitration and Mediation’, Suzanne has a thriving mediation and arbitration practice and teaches both. She is widely known for the resolution of complex financial issues for high net worth individuals. Read more

 

 

Suzy Power

Suzy is a mediator, family consultant and dispute resolution specialist. She works alongside a number of family lawyers offering support to their clients on an individual basis as well as to couples in relation to parenting issues. Read more

 

 

Tasha Bevan-Stewart

Tasha is a partner in Family Law at Blandy & Blandy Solicitors. She has practised exclusively in family law since her qualification, also training as a mediator and collaborative practitioner. She currently co-presents the collaborative foundation training course for Resolution Together.. Read more