We are passionate about increasing awareness and driving change through collaboration and education, across the legal sector and beyond.
FLiP and FLANC are delighted to partner to produce this toolkit to enable family lawyers, barristers, mediators and arbitrators to best support neurodiverse clients accessing NCDR processes.
FLANC was founded by a group of expert lawyersdedicated to ensuring that the neurodivergent community has equal access to justice by addressing barriers to participation in family proceedings and dispute resolution. We are passionate about increasing awareness and driving change through collaboration and education, across the legal sector and beyond.
FLiP – is a law firm specialising in Family Law for the last 30 years, with a specific focus on all NCDR processes and providing the best solutions for clients whatever their needs.
Working with FLANC on this initiative is an important step in enabling neurodiverse clients to better access NCDR services. NCDR is well placed to provide neurodiverse clients with the bespoke service they may need.
Meet Jenny
Jenny is an award-winning family solicitor and founding partner at Beck Fitzgerald who specialises in all aspects of the law relating to children and divorce. Jenny is committed to accessible justice and the rights of the individual as well as being a successful business leader who is adept at creating and running high performance teams.
She has worked tirelessly to shape the future of family justice and influence policy to make the system fairer. Jenny works with each and every client to understand and support their needs and achieve fair results and she is well known for her integrity and tenacity.
Jenny is regularly approached by the media to provide expert insight and comment, and she holds a number of positions including: Chair of the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory; Current member and former chair of The Law Society’s Access to Justice Committee; Member of The Law Society’s Family Law Committee; Current co-chair of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group; and Private law solicitor representative on the Family Justice Council. See Jenny’s full profile here.
Meet Caroline
Caroline is a barrister with over a decade of expertise in all aspects of the law relating to children.
Caroline is deeply committed to ensuring that everyone who comes into contact with the family justice system has access to justice and is treated fairly and in accordance with their particular needs.
She regularly represents neurodivergent adults and children in the Family Court and she has a wealth of experience about the steps that can be taken to improve access to justice and ensure that proceedings are fair for neurodivergent children and adults.
Caroline has an extensive knowledge of the law relating to neurodivergent children and families and she regularly provides training to other lawyers about meeting the needs of neurodivergent children and families in the family justice system. Caroline aims to provide a bespoke service which meets the individual needs of each client. View Caroline’s full profile here.