Chambers Review
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Family/Matrimonial - Scotland
What the Team is Known For
The team at Thorntons Law handles a broad range of family law matters from its offices in Dundee, Edinburgh and Perth. It has a solid reputation for local sheriff court work and is well versed in mediation and arbitration, with particular prowess in complex child access and finance cases. Lawyers within the group are adept at handling matters as varied as cohabitation claims, international child relocations and surrogacy cases. They also collaborate closely with the firm's other departments such as immigration, corporate and property to provide a comprehensive service. In March 2025, Thorntons Law merged with Macnabs Solicitors.
Strengths
Their care and compassion were extremely calming and comforting during a very difficult time. I felt confident in their ability and reassured about the situation.
Thortons provides excellent service and we usually receive exceptionally fast responses to any of our requests or queries.
Notable practitioners
Jennifer Gallagher advises on mediation and collaborative law cases concerning high-value financial matters, in addition to private children issues related to contact and residence applications.
Jennifer is kind, patient and totally professional.
Jennifer is a super family lawyer.
Ruth Croman is managing partner of Macnabs and an experienced family lawyer based in Perth. She has experience in a range of finance and child law-related cases and is particularly skilled in ADR proceedings.
Ruth is extremely knowledgeable, technically brilliant and engaging with clients. She is pragmatic in her approach and I enjoy working with her as you can have sensible discussions.
She is very pleasant and personable to deal with as well as being an effective communicator in court proceedings.
Ruth is very straightforward, easy to work with and she will pick up the phone and is happy to give a pragmatic approach to a case.
She is a very pragmatic person who will focus on solutions, rather than focusing on other problems.
Lucy is measured, has a high level of drafting skills and her pragmatic approach gets good results for clients.
Through her wealth of experience and non-confrontational, highly efficient solution-focused approach, Lucy has represented our family’s interests extremely effectively.
Sandra was business-like and confident in her approach. She outlined alternative courses of action and advised.
I can only commend Sandra on her knowledge and experience but also in understanding the situation with great empathy for me.
