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Collaborative lawyer & Family law arbitrator Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Tony Roe is a highly experienced family law solicitor. Qualifying in 1990, in his thirty years of practicing family law Tony has run a department and led a well-respected firm.

Now having joined Foster Harrington as head of family law, Tony continues to offer high quality tailored family law services to clients with complex needs.

Tony has been published and/or quoted in newspapers including The Financial Times, The Times, Daily Express, the i Newspaper (Independent). He is also sought after by legal journals and has appeared in Family Law, Family Law Journal, Solicitors’ Journal and Law Society Gazette. In addition, being media trained by the Law Society and Resolution, he has appeared on television and radio giving expert comment on family law issues.

Tony was shortlisted by LexisNexis Family Law in 2015, 2016 and 2018 as Family Law Commentator of the Year.

Collaborative lawyer & Family law arbitrator Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Tony Roe is a highly experienced family law solicitor. Qualifying in 1990, in his thirty years of practicing family law Tony has run a department and led a well-respected firm.

Now having joined Foster Harrington as head of family law, Tony continues to offer high quality tailored family law services to clients with complex needs.

Tony was shortlisted by LexisNexis Family Law in 2015, 2016 and 2018 as Family Law Commentator of the Year.

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I must confess that I am an old fan of paper knowledge resources, having had a family law library going back to the 1970s. I am also not very technically savvy. It was therefore with some trepidation...

New Ministry of Justice (MoJ) statistics about the family court are just out. The headline is that the number of divorce petitions is down on the same period last year. There were 28,144 divorce...

“Call for inquiry into abusive parents' access to children” was the story on the BBC website on Wednesday (15 May). It plugged a feature on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. For early birds the...

On 21 June, the divorce centre for London & the South East at Bury St Edmunds (BSE) ‘on demand’ information bulletin was effectively closed down. The daily backlog information was replaced with...

[UPDATED 22 JUNE]In his Sir Henry Brooke annual lecture, titled 'The Age of Reform', given on 7 June 2018, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon said:'Significant reforms of the civil and...

'Call for "rights for grandparents" law' announced the BBC in May. The story came from a Parliamentary debate on 2 May entitled, 'Access Rights to Grandparents'. One should not be distracted by the...

In March 2017, I attended a Court Service (HMCTS) workshop about its online divorce project. HMCTS promised a follow up to demonstrate the progress the project has made. This subsequent...

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has just announced that its fully online divorce application process is being tested across England and Wales for the first time.It says that he pilot...

I am a fan of the Co-op. My granny was a 'divi' (dividend) number holder. However, a headline earlier this month took me aback: 'Co-op speeds up the quickie divorce', announced the FT.Of course,...

'New divorce form "invites name and shame" of adulterers.' So ran a BBC News strapline on 11 August. This would be a worrying development, running contrary to good practice, the Law Society’s Family...

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