Family Law

Stuart Clark is a partner at iFLG specialising in international forum, divorce and financial work.

Stuart initially qualified as a barrister and later cross-qualified to become a solicitor in 2012. He has over 10 years’ experience in family law having joined iFLG from the family department of a large City firm in 2009.

Stuart has a wide breath of experience in all issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship but particularly specialises in financial and forum matters. His work involves high net worth individuals with international assets and complicated trust and partnership issues. He is often required to obtain quick advice from a specialist lawyer in another jurisdiction to run concurrently to his cases. Stuart has excellent advocacy skills and he has represented a number of clients in the Family Courts and in the High Court.  Stuart is thorough in his approach and has excellent drafting and negotiating skills.

Stuart has written for several legal journals and published family law opinion pieces on a variety of media platforms. Stuart was named as runner-up in the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML) European Chapter Young Lawyers Award 2015.

Marcia Hyde is a Barrister at 42 Bedford Row. She specialises in children work and has almost 30 years’ experience at the family bar. She undertakes both public and private law work.

Marcia’s main practice involves serious & complex child abuse matters including those where there are issues of sexual abuse, non-accidental injury and the death of a child. She acts on behalf of local authorities, parents, children’s guardians and extended family members in such cases at all levels of court. She also has a particular interest in cases relating to contact with children in local authority care.

In private law work Marcia has a particular interest in domestic abuse and especially controlling and coercive behaviours.

She is regularly instructed by the most experienced of family solicitors in London and the Home Counties and has built a reputation for her detailed and thorough preparation, her attention to detail, her acute understanding of complex legal and evidential issues and her robust style of advocacy.