Marilyn Stowe
Marilyn Stowe (born 1957) is an English solicitor. She is the founder of Stowe Family Law and contributes on family law matters in the UK media.
Early life and education
Stowe was educated at Leeds Girls' High School and the University of Leeds. She founded Stowe Family Law, a specialist family law firm, in 1982. The firm has offices in Harrogate, North Yorkshire; Leeds, Wetherby and Ilkley, West Yorkshire; Hale and Wilmslow, Cheshire, Central London, St Albans,[1] Winchester[2] and Tunbridge Wells.[3] She sold Stowe Family Law LLP to private equity firm Living Bridge in February 2017 and left the firm.[4]
Stowe is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. She qualified as a family law arbitrator in 2012. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). In 2012 she became a member of the Legal Advisory Group to the Law Commission (England and Wales) regarding matrimonial property. In 2007 she was a member of a Legal Advisory Group that reviewed the rights of cohabiting couples.
Stowe is also known for unearthing the medical evidence that freed Sally Clark, the victim of a British miscarriage of justice. Stowe volunteered her involvement in the case, providing her services free of charge because she felt that "something was not right".[5] Clark's convictions were overturned in a second appeal on 29 January 2003.[6] The prosecution's pathologist, Alan Williams, was found guilty of "serious professional misconduct" by the General Medical Council.[7]
Personal life
Stowe is married to fellow lawyer Grahame Stowe, and has one son.[8]
Publications
Stowe is the author of three books about life after divorce:
- Divorce - a New Beginning, published in 1993
- No Looking Back, published in 2002[9]
- Divorce & Splitting Up: Advice From a Top Divorce Lawyer, published in 2013.[10]
She contributes a monthly family law column to legal trade magazine Solicitors Journal, entitled Family Business. Stowe also writes the Marilyn Stowe Family Law & Divorce Blog, which covers a range of family law issues.[11]
References
- ↑ "A legal force of nature". Daily Telegraph. 9 July 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2009.
- ↑ "SJ movers and shakers | Solicitors Journal". www.solicitorsjournal.com. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ↑ "A new office for a new year: Stowe Family Law Tunbridge Wells". Marilyn Stowe Blog. 19 December 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- ↑ "Top divorce firm bought by investors". Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- ↑ O'Hara, Mary". "Suspicious mind", Guardian, 3 August 2005.
- ↑ Second appeal, R. v Clark, [2003] EWCA Crim 1020, 11 April 2003, from BAILII.
- ↑ "Pathologist in Sally Clark case suspended from court work" British Medical Journal 2005;330:1347, 11 June 2005.
- ↑ "Tenacious divorce lawyer living up to her own family’s values" Yorkshire Post, 2 August 2013.
- ↑ "Marilyn Stowe at Guardian". Guardian. 15 November 2009. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ↑ "Divorce & Splitting Up: Advice From a Top Divorce Lawyer". Amazon.
- ↑ "Marilyn Stowe Blog".