About Joanne
Joanne Edwards is a Partner and Head of Family at Forsters LLP, a Mayfair firm widely regarded as one of London’s leading private wealth practices, where she has built a practice spanning over 25 years. She specialises in high-value financial remedy proceedings on divorce (often with complex international, trust or business-valuation elements), pre- and post-nuptial agreements, child arrangements including international relocation, and cohabitation disputes, acting predominantly for HNW and UHNW clients including professional sportspeople, private equity figures, entrepreneurs, landed gentry, and those from the political and creative spheres. A trained mediator and collaborative lawyer — and one of only a handful in London qualified to conduct child-inclusive mediation — Jo is also a prominent family law reformer who served as Chair of Resolution from 2014 to 2016, has given evidence to parliamentary committees, and regularly appears on national television, radio, and in the broadsheets; she is recognised in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame and ranked Band 2 in Chambers HNW for Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth.
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It's somehow 25 years this year since I first started practising family law, and when I look back, I think when I started out it still felt very litigious. I'm increasingly seeing couples in my mediation practice who I will work with who are worth tens or hundreds of millions of pounds, who just want to sort things out with my help.
the experience of other countries where they've moved to a no-fault system is that there is a spike when the new law comes in – in Scotland, for example, when they changed the law in 2006
- BBC Breakfast: Government's early legal advice pilot for separating parents
- Lorraine: Divorce day — top tips for a good divorce
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- English, French, Spanish