Jane Simpson is the Chairman of Manches, of the few women who head City of London law firms. Admitted Solicitor of Supreme Court 1967.
A family lawyer who specialises in complex ancillary relief cases and those involving children.
Simpson is the founder and head of the family law department at Manches, and Chairman of the firm. A fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML), Simpson is a trained marriage guidance counsellor and collaborative lawyer. She has been described as the “doyenne of family lawyers”. In 2008 Simpson was one of the founders of the group, Collaborative Family Law (formerly the Central London Collaborative Forum)which aims to bring collaborative law to high value cases.
In 1982 Simpson co-founded, and from 1993-95 chaired, the Solicitors' Family Law Association (now Resolution). It is the national organisation for solicitors specialising in family law and now has over 5,000 members. She also served as a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Family Law Advisory Board and was a non executive director and Vice Chairman of the Tavistock Portman NHS Trust.
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“If the veil were withdrawn from the sanctuary of domestic life, and man could look upon the fear, the loathing, the detestations which his tyranny and reckless gratification of self has caused to take the place of confiding love, which placed a woman in his power, he would shudder at the hideous wrong of the present regulations of the domestic abode.”
—Lydia Jane Pierson, U.S. women’s rights activist and corresponding editor of The Woman’s Advocate. The Woman’s Advocate, represented in The Lily, pp. 117-8 (1855-1858 or 1860)
“The man who married Magdalene
Had not forgiven her.
God might pardon every sin . . .
Love is no pardoner.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)