Mary Shaw – Family Law Department
Mary specialises in:-
• Divorce and related financial matters including high net worth cases.
• Collaborative Family Law.
• Family Mediation
• Children cases in Public Law (Care Cases) and where children require separate representation in private law proceedings
Mary is qualified as an Advocate in the Family Proceedings Court, County Court and High Court.
She is a Member of Resolution and is one of only 140 solicitors in the country to be accredited by Resolution as a specialist lawyer in 3 areas-in her case, Ancillary Relief, Private Children Law and Domestic Abuse.
Mary is a Resolution Mediator.
Mary is also a member of the Children Panel.
Mary is a member of the Resolution North East Committee. In addition, she is a Trustee and Board Member of Relate Northumberland and Tyneside.
Mary has undertaken training in Children Law for CAFCASS.
Mary was a Peer Reviewer for the Legal Services Commission and received a score of 1 (excellent) in her own file peer reviews.
Mary was a founding member of the Tyneside collaborative lawyers group and worked on the first successfully completed collaborative law case in the region.
Mary read law at Durham University and qualified as a Solicitor in 1984 after training at Bindmans the London civil liberties firm.
Mary can be e-mailed directly: mary.shaw@davidgray.co.uk
Mary can be contacted directly: 0191 232 95 47 ext 4001
Family Department Team Members
 Mary Shaw Head of Department, Solicitor |
 Clare Routledge Solicitor |
 Lesley Monkhouse Solicitor |
 Elspeth Thomson Solicitor |
 Lucy Mead Solicitor |
 Cara Smith Solicitor |
 Nicky Hunter Solicitor |
 Jane Wilkinson Solicitor |
 Joanne Charlton Solicitor |
 Claire Hunter Solicitor |
 Laura Croft Solicitor |
 Hannah Pearce Solicitor |
 Jenny Carter Solicitor |
 Lisa Bowman Paralegal |
 Paul Harbison Paralegal |
 Anne Brooks Paralegal |
 Lisa Bucknall Paralegal |
 Suzanne Bullimore Paralegal |
 Natalie Kidd Paralegal |
 Nicola Thompson Paralegal |