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Nicola Buchanan
Nicola Buchanan
Associate. Accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a  Family Law Mediator and a Trained collaborative lawyer. I specialised in Family Law in approximately 2005 and have practised exclusively in this field since then. I am regularly instructed on all aspects of family law and child law with particular experience of acrimonious contact / residence disputes. I have extensive Court experience and experience of representing children. In the past I have been appointed by the court both as a child welfare reporter to prepare reports in contentious contact and residence disputes and also as a curator to represent children. I have been involved in numerous cases involving complex financial provision including businesses, companies and shareholdings on occasion for high net worth individuals. I have experience of cohabitation disputes and minutes for contempt of court for failure to obtemper court orders including aliment orders. I regularly negotiate minutes of agreement for  Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements and cohabitation cases. I have substantial experience of domestic abuse cases and the obtaining of protective court orders in relation to them and adoptions.
Judith Higson
Judith Higson
Head of Family Law. Accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in Family Law, Child Law and as a Family Law Mediator and collaborative lawyer. Regularly instructed on all aspects of family law and child law. Has extensive Court experience and experience of representing children. Specialises in cases involving complex financial provision, often with an international element. Has extensive experience of relocations of children intra UK and abroad and all types of child cases, Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements and cohabitation cases.