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Emma Palmer


Interests


  • Practicing family lawyer (solicitor) with 30 years of family law experience. Currently an Associate Director at Whitehead Monckton and Head of their family law team. A collaboratively trained family lawyer and a One Lawyer/One couple specialist with a family law practice focused on resolving disputes outside of the court environment.

  • https://whitehead-monckton.co.uk/our-people/emma-palmer

  • Founding member of Stour NCDR and their LinkedIn officer - a group of family law professionals working together to promote out of court family law dispute resolution.

  • Member of Resolution and Kent Resolution.

  • Nominee of Kent Law Society pro bono award, winner of Kent Law Society Covid Award for services to the society during covid, and Law Society’s Unsung Legal Hero award winner.

  • Member of Special Purposes Committee for Kent Law Society, former Honorary Secretary and Past President of this society and also Past President of Medway Law Society (the latter now moribund).

  • Kent Law School Advisory Board committee member.

  • Strong interest in promoting careers in law and works regularly with both UKC and CCCU law schools, giving lectures and attending careers events there as well as in local Kent schools. Passionate about diversity in law and access to justice.

  • https://uk.linkedin.com/in/emma-palmer-17446170

  • Personal interests include going to the theatre, opera and cinema and travelling.


Useful Information


  • Through Kent Law Society very good links with many lawyers/law firms across Kent.

  • Links with Kent Police through Kent Law Society networking.

  • Very good links with both the law school at CCCU and at UKC.

  • Good links with Canterbury CAB, and the Kent Law Clinic (was a duty adviser at both until earlier this year).

  • Good links with our local family law judges 

  • Good connections with central Law Society - 

  • Have links with France (especially Lille) through Kent Law Society twinning arrangements. Personal connections in Japan as have family living there