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Chloë graduated from Newcastle University with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology in 2009. Then she completed an MSc in Clinical Criminology at the University of Leicester and the GDL at the College of Law in Manchester. After a brief spell teaching Psychology at Haileybury College, she was awarded a Lord Diplock scholarship from Middle Temple and studied the Bar Professional Training Course at Nottingham Law School.

Chloë has acted as an Appropriate Adult, spent time working for the National Centre for Domestic Violence, the Free Representation Unit and currently volunteers for Big Voice London, working with students on law reform projects. Prior to joining Vardags, Chloë worked at Rebus Group dealing with cases of investment scheme mis-selling.

Chloë grew up in Northamptonshire but now lives in North London and enjoys tennis, design and cooking.

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Caroline is the former Chief Executive and former Chair of Solicitors for the Elderly, an organisation she helped to found in 1999. She lectures regularly and is well known in her specialist field, advising older and vulnerable adults who have limited physical and/or mental capacity.

Caroline has a national media profile, and is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Money Box Live and interviewed in for TV, radio, magazines and national press.

She provides consultancy for law firms on an independent basis. Her work focuses on advising vulnerable adults; principally older and disabled people, their families and carers.

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