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Helen is a senior mediator and one of the founding partners of Wells Family Mediation and The Wells Group working with clients in Tunbridge Wells and in Central London.​ She has lectured regularly on Family Mediation, including training new family court judges at the Judicial College. Helen was the mediator representative on the Private Law Working Group, which examined how family law disputes are resolved in England and Wales, and how that might be improved. In 2020 Helen was invited to set up and Chair the Family Solutions Group, and its report 'What about me?' focusing on the needs of the child following family separation, was published in November 2020.

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Is joint head of Family Law at Mills & Reeves. He has over 40 years experience of assisting clients in achieving a fair and cost effective resolution to their difficulties whether divorce, separation or child related. His work includes helping clients whose cases have an international element or where the asset base is complex, perhaps involving corporate structures, family trusts or pension arrangements. Other lawyers regard Mills & Reeve as being experts in pension aspects of marriage breakdown.

He belongs to Resolution, which is an organisation of specialist family lawyers which promotes a code of practice aimed at the constructive resolution of family disputes. He is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers which consists of nearly 600 expert family lawyers across the world.

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