FRJ stage

Interview

Interview with Nigel Shepherd

Interview with Nigel Shepherd

Nigel Shepherd is a former partner and national head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve, retiring as a consultant at the firm in October 2024. He was national Chair of Resolution 1995–1997 and again 2016–2018, the only person to have held that role twice and was given

Interview with Baroness Hale

Interview with Baroness Hale

.jpeg) Whether you know her as ‘the Beyoncé of the legal world’[[1]] or ‘call me Brenda’ (as she modestly introduces herself), Baroness Hale of Richmond is an exceptional woman and an exceptional lawyer. The first woman from her school to go to Cambridge – at a time when only 2.

Interview with Hilary Woodward

Interview with Hilary Woodward

Hilary Woodward is a former solicitor and mediator, academic and the about to retire CEO of the Pension Advisory Group. At the launch of the Second Edition of the Pension Advisory Group report, Hilary’s contribution in the field of pensions on divorce was described as ‘incalculable’. She talks to

Interview with Professor David Hodson

Interview with Professor David Hodson

The Life and Career of Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb, Solicitor, Mediator, Arbitrator, Australian Solicitor and DDJ David, what was your background? It was modest. My father won a scholarship to a grammar school in Southampton but like so many, the war interfered with his education and he

Interview with Sir Mathew Thorpe

Interview with Sir Mathew Thorpe

Sir Mathew Thorpe, Barrister from 1961, in silk from 1980, Family Division Judge (1988–95), Lord Justice of Appeal (1995–2013) and Deputy Head of Family Justice and Head of International Family Justice (2005–13). Sir Mathew was interviewed at his Wiltshire home in Autumn 2022. How have you occupied