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Alison Edmondson

Director of SKO Family Law Specialists – SKO. Accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in family law and as a family mediator. Founding member of steering group of FLAGS (Family Law Arbitration Group Scotland) and FLAGS arbitrator. Trained collaborative lawyer. Past tutor in family law at Edinburgh University. Postgraduate certificate in mediation and conflict resolution from University of Strathclyde. Practice centres on financial provision and financial issues arising from separation and parenthood. Has particular interest in tax issues in family law cases – a subject on which she has written for the ‘Journal of the Law Society of Scotland’ – and unusual and/or complex cases including disputed paternity legal rights (inheritance) claims and family contracts including pre and post nups.

Robert Gilmour

Director of SKO Family Law Specialists. Accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in family law and as a family mediator. FLAGS (Family Law Arbitration group Scotland) arbitrator. Practice covers the full range of family and child law cases. Recognised for particular expertise in cohabitant claims – acted for successful applicant in ground breaking and widely reported Supreme Court case of Gow v Grant (undertaking all advocacy at first instance) and advising on surrogacy and artificial reproductive technology. Extensive experience of advocacy including conduct of proofs, debates and other contentious hearings in the Sheriff Court (Scotland wide).

Rachael Kelsey

Founding Partner of SKO until 2026. 'Hall of Fame' family lawyer in Scotland in the current Edition of the Legal 500; the only ‘Star Individual’ in Chambers Scotland Guide and the only Scottish lawyer in band one of Chambers High Net Worth. First Scottish lawyer in the Spears 500. Winner of Private Client Lawyer of the year at the inaugural Legal 500 Scottish Law Awards in 2023, where she was also the only Family Lawyer shortlisted for Lawyer of the Year and The Times Scottish Lawyer of the Week in July 2020. Elected President of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) in 2023- the first Scot and the first woman from the UK in the forty year history of the Academy. Practice centres on financial matters in divorce and on separation particularly when there are tax, property, corporate and trust issues, but also cross-border child law including child abduction, relocation of children, aliment and recognition issues. Particular experience and expertise where there are jurisdictional considerations or where the matter is complex or high value, and/or where the client is in the public eye.

Susan Oswald

Founding director of SKO Family Law Specialists. Accredited by Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in child law and family mediator. Particular, and widely acknowledged, expertise in child law issues. Extensive experience acting in cross-border public child law matters (especially for Local Authorities and English agents). Routinely appointed by the courts as a reporter and curator ad litem in family cases. Practises full range of family law cases including divorce, separation and financial provision. Extensive experience in child residence and contact cases, adoption, child abduction (Hague and non-Hague) and specific issue order applications. Extensive experience of appearing in the Sheriff Court. Highly sought after mediator and adept at assiting in the most intractable matters.