4 BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, WC1R 4DF, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7242 7363
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7405 0555
- DX:
- 163 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
- Web:
- www.collyerbristow.com
- Email:
Michael Drake
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7468 7253
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Work Department
Family department.
Position
Former head of family department; partner specialising in family and matrimonial matters especially cases involving a commercial, financial, or international element.
Career
Articled Collyer-Bristow; qualified 1971; articled clerk and assistant solicitor 1969-74; assistant solicitor Kenneth Brown Baker Baker 1974-77; partner MacDonald Stacey 1977-84; partner Collyer Bristow 1984; publications: first editor of Resolution (then SFLA) Newsletter 1984-87 and member of National Committee member for many years; author of various textbooks including ‘Divorce and the Family Business’ (second edition recently published by Jordans); has lectured, written numerous articles and broadcast on family law and business topics; chairs the CLT conference on ‘Divorce and the Family Business’; has written and appeared in a series of specialist family law training videos for The Law Channel; from 2005-07 chief assessor and examiner for the Law Society family law panel; fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Member
Law Society Family Law Panel.
Education
Haberdashers’ Aske’s, Elstree; Selwyn College, Cambridge (1968 BA Law; 1971 MA).
Leisure
Art, theatre, travel, reading; Fellow of Royal Geographical Society; trustee of the Born Free Foundation.
Practice Areas
Family - children; Family - matrimonial
