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French-speaking matrimonial practitioner and former professor of law. Rebecca specialises in cross-border jurisdictional disputes and applications for financial provision following an overseas divorce.

Rebecca is also qualified as a mediator and for direct access instruction.

Notable cases:

• Potanina (Respondent) v Potanin (Appellant) [2024] UKSC 3 [2024] 2 WLR 540
• Potanina v Potanin [2021] EWCA Civ 702 [2021] 2 FLR 1457
• Des Pallieres v Des Pallieres [2021] EWCA Civ 995 [2021] 2 FLR 1097
• Potanin v Potanina  [2019] EWHC 2956 [2020] 1 FLR 616
• Giusti v Ferragamo [2019] EWCA Civ 691 [2019] 2 FLR 261
• MB v TB (Jurisdiction: Divorce: Court First Seised) [2018] EWHC 2035 [2019] 1 FLR 1247
• A v B (Financial Remedies) (No 2) [2018] EWCF 45 [2019] 1 FLR 17
• A v B (Financial Remedies: Application to Strike Out) [2018] EWFC 4 [2019] 1 FLR 1 
• E v E  (BIIA: Arts 16 and 19) [2015] EWHC 3742 (Fam) [2017] 1 FLR 658
• Walton v Allman [2015] EWHC 3325 (Ch) [2017] 1 FLR 927
• AB v JJB (EU Maintenance Regulation: Modification Application Procedure) [2015] EWHC 192(Fam)  [2015]  2 FLR 1143
• Wyatt v Vince [2015] UKSC 14 [2015] 1 FLR 972
• Ville de Bauge v China [2014] EWHC 3975 (Fam)[2015] 2 FLR 873
• Chai v Peng (No 2) [2014] EWHC 1519 (Fam) [2015] 1 FLR 637
• Tan v Choy  [2014] EWCA Civ 231 [2015]  1 FLR 492
• H v W (Cap on Wife’s Share of Bonus Payments) (No 2) [2014] EWHC 2846 (Fam) [2015] 2 FLR 161

Publications:

Rebecca has published widely in both Australia and England, through books and articles in academic and professional journals.

In England Rebecca has co-authored the major texts Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters and Cretney’s Principles of Family Law.

Rebecca is currently an editor of the Family Law Reports and a monthly case commentator for Family Law. She is a consultant editor of International Family Law.

Called 2000.

Professor Emeritus University of Bristol. Qualified mediator.

Principal interests are reading, classical music and cooking.