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Geographical areas covered: Beds, Herts and Bucks

Legal aid: Yes
Mediation: No
Collaborative law: Yes
Disabled access: Yes

Head of Family Team: Stephen Holmes
Head of Bedford Family Team:
Samantha Reddington
Bedford Family Team Members: Stephen Holmes, Samantha Reddington, Sarah Wright, Julia Wright, Yvonne Noble, Harbir Pattar, Sophie Jackson
Resolution members:Sarah Wright, Julia Wright, Yvonne Noble
Resolution areas of expertise: Yvonne Noble (Advanced Financial Provision 1 and Domestic Abuse) 
Specialist panel memberships:
Children Panel – Samantha Reddington Family Mediation Association’s Accredited Mediator – Stephen Holmes
Yvonne Noble (Advanced Financial Provision 1 and Domestic Abuse)

Other departments: Civil litigation, company/commercial, conveyancing, crime, employment, personal injury, and probate

About us

Borneos Solicitors is an established, well respected legal practice with offices in Bedford, Milton Keynes and Newport Pagnell providing a wide range of legal services to business and individual clients.

With 16 lawyers, it has the largest family department in the area. 5 Members specialise in family work. Borneos Solicitors is the only firm to be recommended in the top tier in the Legal 500 2008-9 for family law in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes. The Legal 500 2008-9 refer to Borneos family work as a ‘core practice area’ with ‘work involving child care, guardian and adoption issues ….. a particular focus’.

All areas of family work are covered including divorce, finance matters, children issues, injunctions, cohabitee disputes and care work.

Stephen Holmes heads the department. Stephen has 30 years legal experience and was a member of the Law Society’s Children’s Panel from inception.

Jason Lazard heads the Milton Keynes office. He specialises in complex, high net worth financial cases and undertakes comprehensive advocacy

Jane Charlton, one of the few accredited collaborative family lawyers in the area, heads the Newport Pagnell team. She also specialises in complex, high net worth financial cases.

Samantha Reddington heads the Bedford office and the renowned care team. The team was instructed by 30 Children’s Guardians across the region last year. Borneos is also noted for its Inheritance Act/contentious probate work and is one of the five original firms to be appointed to the Litigation Catalogue Panel to provide litigation services to a Public Authority.

The renowned care team is headed by Sam Phelan from our Bedford office. 3 of the Members are on the Children’s Panel, 1 senior Solicitor is approved to undertake work on behalf of Guardians pending reinstatement of his Panel membership following a sabbatical and 5 other lawyers also specialise in public work on behalf of parents/grandparents.

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