Simon Craddock

Background

About Simon Craddock

Simon is Head of the Banbury Family Department. He specialises in financial provision on divorce, especially farming/complex disputes involving assets such as businesses. Simon is a trained collaborative family lawyer. He is also an International Hague Convention panel lawyer. It is very interesting as such hearings take place in the High Court in London. They are swift and very challenging especially having to understand the need for different culture values. In 2009, Simon spoke at the International Conference in Italy which dealt with International approaches to children and their vulnerabilities, lecturing in his specialism of International Child Abduction; his paper examined the approach of the British and the Australian legal systems in respect of the relocation of children from one country to another. The conference was attended by over 200 delegates including Judges from around the world. In 2010, Simon spoke at the Malaga Law Conference which focused on Private Client Issues in English and Spanish Law. Simon's talk covered Divorce and Financial arrangements between spouses. Simon is a Resolution Accredited Specialist, a Law Society Children Panel Lawyer, a Resolution trained Mediator, a Collaborative Lawyer and also a Child Abduction Ministry of Justice Panel Lawyer. A recent High Court Child Abduction case has been discussed at parliament question time. Specialties: International Child Abduction, Simon is ranked by both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories for being a specialist in this area.