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Jane is a senior consultant in the family team, having previously headed the department for a number of years. She is an expert in high value divorce finances, with many years’ experience of cases involving trusts, inherited wealth, complicated remuneration structures and assets overseas. She represents high net worth individuals, senior professionals, people in the financial services industry, and members of landed families, as well as clients who have devoted much of their lives to bringing up children and running the family home. 

Long recognised in all the legal directories, Jane is featured in The Legal 500 Hall of Fame. She is ‘Top Recommended’ in the 2024 Spear’s Family Law Index and is ranked a ‘Senior Statesperson’ in Chambers High Net Worth UK 2024. Jane is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and works closely with lawyers from other jurisdictions on her international cases. Having been national chair of Resolution, Jane is now a committed member of Resolution’s Cohabitation Committee. She was a member of The Law Commission of England and Wales’s Cohabitation Project Legal Advisory Group, and maintains a keen interest in this area of the law.

Jane often advises on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. She has acted in many cases between unmarried parents involving a financial claim on behalf of a child (Schedule 1). She also has extensive experience of acting in complex disputes about arrangements for children. A member of the Family Justice Council for seven years, she has chaired its private law Children in Families Committee.

The directories describe Jane as ‘…a tenacious litigator, arch strategist and formidable opponent’, as well as ‘superb’ and ‘unflappable’, with a ‘reassuring demeanour’. Alongside her legal practice, Jane chairs the family team’s ‘alternatives to court’ group and is a staunch champion of women in the legal profession.