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James Carroll

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Work Department

Family

Position

James is Joint Managing Partner at Russell-Cooke. He specialises in the financial and other consequences of relationship formation or breakdown. His principal role is to help people separate sensibly.

James is an expert in complex financial matters, including those involving businesses and trust/tax structures, often with an international dimension. He has considerable knowledge of pre-nuptial agreements (having sat on the Advisory Group to the Law Commission).

In contrast with many family lawyers, James’ practice is not limited to representing married couples or those in a personal relationship. He also acts for family members, business partners or trusts/corporations that own property together or face family-related legal issues.

James is identified as a leader in the field in relation to same-sex relationships, civil partnerships and same-sex marriages, particularly those involving cross-border issues.

He has a particularly strong reputation in resolving matters through constructive discussions and cooperation. James is both an accredited mediator and a collaborative family lawyer (both specialist forms of dispute resolution designed to reach solutions out of court). James works with and advises individuals, couples or wider family members.

Career

  • trained Anthony Gold Solicitors 1999-2001; qualified 2001;
  • assistant solicitor Russell-Cooke, Kingston Office 2001-06;
  • assistant solicitor Campbell Hooper Solicitors 2006-08;
  • partner Campbell Hooper Solicitors 2008-09;
  • partner Russell-Cooke 2009 to date.

James is regularly called upon by the mainstream media for interview or comment on family law matters, and as such James has appeared on the Today programme, the BBC, Sky and Channel 4 News

Publications of note: ‘Schedule 1 Provision (financial provision for unmarried parents)’ in The Law Society, Family Law Protocol (3rd edition).

Memberships

  • Member of Resolution
  • Committee Member of the Family Law Committee of the Law Society of England & Wales (former Co-Chair)
  • Fellow of the International Association of Family Lawyers
  • Member of the International Association of Collaborative Practitioners;
  • Editorial board, Practical Law, Family Section.
  • James is a co-author of the Family Law Protocol, published by The Law Society.

 

Education

University of Wales, Aberystwyth 1994-97; BPP Law School 1997-99.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Private client > Family

(Leading individuals)

James Carroll – Russell-Cooke LLP

Russell-Cooke LLP ‘is extremely well led’ and provides a ‘golden circle service’. It has a broad range of specialisms and advises on a diverse range of matters, such as nuptial agreements, cohabitation issues, international mandates, and complex children issues. Other fields of expertise include assisting clients with fertility law, surrogacy, and adoption, as well as LGBTQ+ family law advice. James Carroll, Kate Hamilton , Fiona Read, and Sarah Richardson are ‘hugely experienced’ and have an ‘uncanny ability to see around corners’. Hannah Minty, Hannah Field, Samantha Little, and Miranda Green produce work that is ‘consistently of an excellent standard’. Jemma Pollock has been promoted to the partnership, and Jade Quirke ‘knows everything there is to know on any complicated area of fertility law’.

London > Private client > Family: mediation

(Leading individuals)

James Carroll – Russell-Cooke LLP

‘Russell-Cooke LLP has one of the best family mediation teams in London. They have a real depth of talent. They are a committed and innovative team’. It has a strong focus on ADR. James Carroll is a key member of this ‘forward thinking and collaborative team’. Carroll is ‘encyclopaedic in his knowledge of the law, and a brilliant strategist who is easily able to translate these skills into his mediation practice’. The team offers sole mediation, co-mediation, hybrid and shuttle mediation, with or without solicitors. The ‘highly rated’ Fiona Read has recently qualified to offer child inclusive mediations. Read is an accredited family mediator and a member of Family Mediation Council. Kate Hamilton is a trained Resolution mediator. Hamilton regularly mediates on high-net-worth cases and cases with conflict.

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