Advocate to speak at prestigious matrimonial lawyers' meeting

Wednesday 25 March 2015

Advocate Barbara Corbett will be travelling to Seville this week for the European Chapter meeting of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Furthermore she has been asked to present to her peers from around the world at this event.

The IAML is a worldwide association of practising lawyers who are recognised by their peers as the most experienced and skilled family law specialists in their respective countries.

Advocate Corbett is the only practitioner in Jersey who is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, which demonstrates her expertise in international family law.

Barbara is now also responsible for co-ordinating the off shore membership; further testament to Barbara’s standing in the area of family law and the IAML.

The IAML was formed in 1986 to improve the practice of law and administration of justice in the area of divorce and family law throughout the world.

Membership of IAML is by invitation only. Lawyers who are interested in joining are asked to submit information to satisfy established criteria for membership in order to obtain the approval of the Board of Admissions. The process is a rigorous one, designed to ensure that the high level of expertise within IAML is maintained.

Barbara Corbett is a partner at Hanson Renouf and is Head of Family Law. She is a qualified Collaborative Lawyer, Specialist Children’s lawyer and is both a Family and a Civil and Commercial mediator. Barbara is also the first, and only, Family Arbitrator in Jersey.