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- Work 020 7814 1200
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Miranda Baker
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- Work +44 20 7814 1200
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Work Department
Family.
Position
Partner, specialising in all aspects of private family work, with a particular interest in high-net-worth financial work and children cases (contested residence, contact and leave to remove applications), surrogacy and mediation; represented the wife in the case of K v L [2010] EWHC 1234 – an important case dealing with the treatment of a substantial premarital inheritance, which has recently gone to the Court of Appeal (judgment awaited), and also represented the successful respondent in the case of Re D (Minors) (Conciliation: Privilege) (1993) 2 All ER 693. Resolution (formerly SFLA) trained mediator.
Career
Articled Turner Peacock; qualified 1981; previously worked for Collyer-Bristow, Rubinstein Callingham Polden & Gale (partner from 1989-94), and Manches; member of the Resolution children committee; former co-editor of the ‘Resolution Review’; contributor to legal education videos; lectured on family law matters, including SFLA seminar on children, SFLA National Conference 2003 (co-wrote and shared presentation of children law update lecture), CLT ‘Alternative Family’ lecture in February 2006 (wrote and delivered lecture on surrogacy), and talk at international surrogacy seminar at Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in November 2010.
Languages
Conversational German.
Member
Resolution; Law Society.
Education
Wimbledon High School, GPDST; New Hall, Cambridge (1974-77).
Leisure
Opera, hiking, football, travel.
Practice Areas
Family - children; Family - matrimonial
