Benest Corbett Renouf Partner qualifies as children’s scheme family law arbitrator

Friday 19 August 2016

Advocate Barbara Corbett, Head of Family Law at Benest Corbett Renouf, has qualified as a family law arbitrator in respect of children matters. This follows on from her qualification as a family law financial arbitrator in 2014.

Mrs Corbett is now able to arbitrate in cases involving disputes children which means that she is able to make decisions regarding issues such as contact and children’s holidays that separating couples might find difficult to agree between themselves. She is the only accredited family law arbitrator in Jersey.

Mrs Corbett said: “Family arbitration is a form of private dispute resolution in which you and your ex-partner appoint an impartial family arbitrator to resolve things between you. It’s an ideal approach for people who want to explore and agree a way forward in a family dispute without the delay and expense of the court process.”

She added that arbitration enables ex-partners to engage in a completely confidential process which also benefits from flexibility of not being committed to a court timetable. However, arbitration still has the advantage of a binding decision being made by a third party after hearing both sides of the story and parties can be represented by their lawyers. 

She is a financial arbitrator through the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an accredited civil and commercial mediator as well as a family mediator and a collaborative lawyer.