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Hughes Fowler Carruthers Offices
ACADEMY COURT
94 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
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England
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Pauline Fowler
Work Department
Matrimonial and family.
Position
Partner in top ranked niche family law practice; work includes complex financial matters with an international dimension; private children’s law including international adoption; pre- and post-nuptial contracts; cohabitation; mediation, particularly in complex financial cases.
Career
Qualified 1983; joined Bates, Wells & Braithwaite 1985, quickly developed an expertise in cases combining financial complexity and difficult issues concerning children, partner 1990; co-founded Hughes Fowler Carruthers 2001; trained as a mediator 1993; lectures, writes and broadcasts on family law matters. Represented the successful husband in the Privy Council case of MacLeod [2008] UKPC 64.
Memberships
Fellow of International Academy of Family Lawyers; Resolution member and chair of pensions, tax and financial remedies committee; Pensions Advisory Group; BAAF Legal Group; Law Society.
Education
Notre Dame High School, Birkdale; Liverpool University (1975 BA Hons); Chancery Lane College of Law (1981 Solicitors Finals).
Leisure
Chamber music.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Private client > Family
(Hall of Fame)Clients ‘greatly appreciate’ the ‘user friendly’ style at boutique firm Hughes Fowler Carruthers, which offers the full range of domestic and international finance and children expertise. Frances Hughes
heads up the practice, specialising in complex divorce cases which involve high-value assets and multiple jurisdictions. Alex Carruthers ‘is a powerhouse of a lawyer’, sought after for complex legal issues involved in matrimonial finance cases, while Pauline Fowler is recommended for her ability to find ‘creative solutions that work for real families‘. For pre-nuptial and pre-civil partnership agreements, Mark Harper is a go-to, and Renato Labi ‘negotiates as well as he litigates‘ in high-stakes divorce matters. ‘A brilliant lawyer and a clever tactician‘, Caroline Park handles long-running and often cross-border cases; such international matters are also an area of expertise for Kate Brett. The team’s children practice handles international relocation, abduction, adoption and surrogacy matters, along with sensitive issues of domestic abuse and coercive control.