James Stewart (solicitor)
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James Stewart (born 1964 in Strabane, Northern Ireland), is a solicitor, who acts for celebrities in high-profile/high value divorce cases.
The son of a County Tyrone farmer, Stewart was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution in County Londonderry, the University of Essex and the College of Law, Chester.
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[edit] Legal career
Stewart qualified as a solicitor in 1990, was accredited by Resolution as a specialist family lawyer in 1999. A year later he was appointed partner and head of the family department at Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. He became a partner at Manches LLP in 2006, shortly after being elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML), a worldwide association of practising lawyers.
He has acted on a number high-profile cases involving members of Pink Floyd and INXS, has represented clients including Dynasty actress, Emma Samms and Julie Le Brocquy, producer of BAFTA award winning Osama. Stewart also successfully represented Glory Annen Clibbery in the landmark family/Human Rights Act 1998 case of Clibbery v Allan (2002), where he won at first instance and on appeal.[1] He also acted for the successful claimant, Kerry Cox, in the widely publicised cohabitation case of Cox v Jones in 2004.[2]
In 2003 he became one of the first solicitors in England to train in Collaborative Family Law, a new non-confrontational approach towards alternate dispute resolution in family law.
Stewart writes extensively on International family law, his articles on Anglo-Russian divorce have appeared in The Times[3] and the Russian Investment Review[4][5][6]
[edit] Personal life
Stewart lives in Covent Garden, London. He is a supporter of the peace building charity, Co-operation Ireland.[7]
