
Russell-Cooke LLP
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Fiona Read
- Phone+44 (0)20 8789 9111
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Family
Position
Solicitor, mediator, collaborative family practitioner and family arbitrator; undertakes all aspects of family work for married couples, registered civil partners and cohabitating couples; specialisms include international divorce/dissolution cases, cross-border disputes, substantive financial claims following breakdown of relationship, disputes involving children including removal of children from jurisdiction.
Career
Trained JP Malnick & Co 1986-88; assistant solicitor Russell-Cooke, Potter & Chapman 1988-95; partner 1995; Resolution-trained mediator (all issues 1997); accredited with Family Law Mediation Counsel and MIAM trained; practising collaborative family law from 2004; part-time deputy district judge 2005 to date; Family Arbitrator from commencement of Family Law Arbitration service started in 2012.
Memberships
Resolution; Law Society Family Law Panel and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Education
Oaklands (RC) Comprehensive, Waterlooville; London Guildhall University (1985 BA Hons Business Law); Guildford College of Law (1986 Law Society Finals).