Family: mediation

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP offers a ‘holistic service’ with ‘some of the most experienced mediators in the country’. Caroline Bowden ‘is a standout star' in the team, conducting traditional and hybrid mediations surrounding issues including foreign jurisdictions, inter-generational concerns, and children-related matters. Recommended for her ’vast experience‘, Kim Beatson carries out civil and commercial work alongside family mediation. For international assets and jurisdictional issues, David Emmerson is a go-to: ’an unfailingly fair mediator‘, Emmerson ’offers the highest level of expertise across the family law spectrum’. Fiona Lyon qualified as a mediator in January 2023.

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‘Caroline Bowden is a standout star; she is a highly experienced mediator who is calm, confident and capable even with the most acrimonious or complicated disputes.'
‘Anthony Gold offer a holistic service to their clients. They have some of the most experienced mediators in the country. Their training in a variety of approaches to mediation means they are able to offer the right service for any situation and as a lawyer I have the utmost trust in them.'
‘David Emmerson offers the highest level of expertise across the family law spectrum. David is an unfailingly fair mediator who brings to mediation a huge depth of family law knowledge which ensures that clients are supported to almost invariably find a solution in mediation with him.'
'Fiona Lyon has a wonderful demeanor that puts clients at ease and enables them to commit to and embrace mediation with her. She is excellent at ensuring that clients in mediation feel heard and engage in mediation constructively.'
'Kim Beatson is one of the doyennes of family law. She has vast experience, detailed knowledge of the law and is concise and to the point but able to ensure that she adapts to offer the very best service to her clients in mediation to help them find an outcome.’
‘This family law department really is the Gold standard. Highly capable and personable individuals and brilliant team players. Experienced, calm and unflappable. Client focused and always working to resolve their clients' issues away from the court wherever possible. Non-court dispute resolution runs through everything they do.’
‘Caroline Bowden is always a pleasure to work with; she is thorough, caring and up to date with the latest mediation practice. Clients who I have referred to Caroline are impressed by her skills in getting them to an agreement and where that was not possible in narrowing the issues.’
‘The team of mediators at Anthony Gold are some of the best in the country. They are more experienced probably than any other London practice. There is depth in the work they do and they bring clients along in the process. They can handle complex and difficult cases which would not traditionally be considered appropriate for mediation or dispute resolution but critical for family's in crisis.’

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