Testimonials

Peggy is compassionate and committed.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2026

Kevin is an expert in all aspects of children law. Kevin has an excellent, dare I say encyclopaedic, knowledge of the law which he uses to put forward arguments on behalf of children.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2026

Kevin is respected for his huge amount of knowledge and experience. He is very committed to the client and very much a leader in the field of international family law.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2026

Janet is fantastic. She’s a great lawyer with great judgement and is very knowledgeable.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2026

Goodman Ray rightly has a reputation as one of the top firms in the country dealing with children law cases, with strength in depth covering international, public and private law matters.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2026

Ann Thomson is highly experienced and always achieves the best outcomes for her clients. She is a safe pair of hands.

‐ Legal 500, 2026

Ann Thompson is simply unbeatable. She advises across the range of family law cases and offers the complete service to her clients.

‐ Legal 500, 2026

Peggy is one of the most prominent practitioners in this space.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Kevin is a master tactician and very well-regarded for international children work.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Jemma is the stand out solicitor for complex adoption, parentage and surrogacy disputes.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Janet is brilliant – she never gives up on a case and fights until the last for her clients.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Hannah is an exceptional lawyer who is caring, considerate and goes above and beyond.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Emma always looks for ways to support the client around proceedings, considering all the options to get the best possible outcome for them.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Catriona Allan is a very experienced solicitor and provides an excellent service to clients.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Trudi Featherstone provides strong, sensible and no-nonsense advice. She is forward thinking and respected by her peers. As an experienced mediator, she has the optimum blend of sensibility and empathy, enabling her to navigate clients through their often complex emotional influences. She expertly guides the clients through the mediation process and will find some common ground.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Thomas Brownrigg is a stand out family lawyer for finance and children disputes. Very good with cohabitation and modern family cases. Technically brilliant with a fine attention to detail. Tremendous lateral thinker. Extremely good at negotiation. Always popular with clients. Very good at difficult, challenging and acrimonious mediation cases.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Kevin Skinner knows everything about international family law cases. He acts for parents and children and has been involved in some of the key cutting edge cases.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Ann Thompson is a legend amongst family lawyers. Her client skills are exceptional and she is one of the most in-demand solicitors in London. She is available at all times of day to clients and goes the extra mile.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Janet Broadley is outstanding in children law, especially in international cases. She is rightly regarded as the best lawyer for representing children.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Jemma Dally is a Star amongst Stars. She works tirelessly for every client and has exceptional judgment.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Emma Sherrington is fantastic in all areas of private and public law children work. Really bright. Hugely experienced.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

I believe anyone will be in safe hands with Thomas Brownrigg. An outstanding solicitor who made me feel at ease throughout the hearings and achieved the best result for my family.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Trudi Featherstone is known for her wisdom and thoroughness. A very experienced and accomplished mediator.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

It has been incredible to work with Peggy Ray of Goodman Ray.

Her attention to detail is extraordinary. I have felt truly supported in what has been a difficult situation and because of her commitment, I have hope that our family situation can be resolved. A successful outcome for our family is everything to me and I know it is for Peggy too. I’m so grateful. I would recommended anyone to work with Goodman Ray, they are an amazing team.

‐ Mr G, Client of Peggy Ray

Trudi Featherstone maintains a strong reputation as a litigator and mediator who handles children matters. She represents clients in a range of matters including cohabitation and jurisdictional disputes. Her experience also covers high-value financial remedy and Schedule 1 proceedings.

‐ Trudi Featherstone in Chambers and Partners, 2023

Emma Sherrington is extremely experienced and able. She can, and does, turn her hand to the whole range of children work, achieving outstanding outcomes for a variety of clients. Very highly recommended.

‐ Emma Sherrington in the Legal 500, 2024

Having read your letter I would like to thank you for doing your duties emphatically and supporting me though this difficult time by your professionalism. At a time where I was being judged and condemned by various people you fought my corner I believed at the very least reflected my views and side of the story.

‐ Client of Rachel Browne

I don’t know where Catriona finds the time to do the work she does.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Laura was recommended to me by a fellow solicitor who had also been through the divorce process.  She expertly dealt with the numerous financial issues that arose and was firm but practical in her approach to how she  came to the final settlement. She was very clear and explained each step as we went along, which alleviated much of my anxiety. I am hugely grateful to her for her calm handling of the opposition solicitor who was extremely aggressive and for progressing the case to its conclusion.

‐ Client of Laura Dand

Trudi Featherstone is great on mediation in complicated money cases. She’s such good value for money as she’s an experienced partner. She is good at building a relationship with clients very quickly.

‐ Chambers High Net Worth 2025

Kevin shows excellent judgement in his cases, knowing which arguments will be most effective.

‐ Chambers and Partners, 2025

Trudi Featherstone is a fantastic mediator with a real empathy for clients and desire to do her absolute best to reach resolution for them.

‐ Trudi Featherstone, Legal 500 2024

Kevin Skinner is absolutely brilliant at what he does and gets his clients to the best place he can as quickly as possible.

‐ Kevin Skinner in the Legal 500, 2024

Trudi Featherstone and Thomas Brownrigg are very personable and knowledgeable, and are able to guide their clients with NCDR principles to a reasoned and fair result.

‐ Legal 500, 2025

Thank you also to you. You have made a very difficult and heart wrenching so much more bearable than it could have been. Your patience with my ramblings has been admirable and how you managed to extract anything sensible is impressive!

‐ Client of Rachel Browne

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for all you have done. Your advice has been correct every step of the way. You listened to me, supported, encouraged and respectfully challenged where necessary. You gave professional advice promptly and succinctly, all the while ensuring I completely understood.

‐ Client of Rachel Browne

Emma Sherrington is a public law specialist who has expertise in non-accidental injury, falsely induced illness and sexual abuse allegations. She has experience in representing clients before the High Court.

‐ Emma Sherrington in Chambers and Partners 2023

Clear and straightforward advice, she is incredibly empathetic and supportive.

‐ Peggy Ray in Chambers and Partners, 2020

Goodman Ray manage to combine expert legal knowledge with a really human approach to cases which clients appreciate so much.

‐ Legal 500 – 2024

“What clients get from Emma is real experience and understanding of the issues very early on as well as incredibly good strategic guidance from the outset.”

‐ Emma Sherrington in Chambers and Partners, 2024

This is just an email to tell you how much I appreciate your guidance and hard work during these proceedings. I am very confident in saying that I wouldn’t be in the position I am in if it wasn’t for your hard work and guidance.

‐ Client of Rachel Browne

He’s kind, patient and clever and has all the qualities that you would want in someone representing you at the hardest time of your life. He’s incredibly supportive of his clients

‐ Kevin Skinner in Chambers and Partners, 2020

I retire at the end of next week. I would not be able to do so in the great frame of mind I’m in, without your work and support.  I am eternally grateful to you and all at Goodman Ray.

‐ Client of Jennifer Crossthwaite

Tom is dedicated and gets a quick grasp of the personalities and issues involved in cases with complex dynamics.

‐ Tom Brownrigg in Chambers and Partners, 2023

I have worked with Goodman Ray for ten years or more undertaking financial remedy work. Many of those cases have had a large and complex international element, others have involved uncovering gross non-disclosure by the other party and almost all have been cases where the asset base is complicated by trusts, private limited company structures or complex third-party interests and claims. 

What I have consistently found is that Goodman Ray offer quality that is just as effective and professional as the ‘magic circle’ sets of solicitors but do so with a strong personal commitment, offer empathetic advice and consistent maintain a clear focus on achieving successful outcomes at proportionate cost to the clients. I routinely recommend Goodman Ray’s financial remedy team to others and including to my own directly instructed clients when their cases need the involvement of a solicitor.

‐ Client

Kevin is really good at understanding where the important aspect of the case is and directs his efforts towards that rather than less important matters.”

‐ Kevin Skinner in Chambers and Partners, 2024

Emma is a solicitor who is diligent, dedicated and always on the ball.

‐ Client of Emma Sherrington

An intellectually and emotionally intelligent lawyer with a very broad range of experience in all types of children work. He is unafraid to fight his client’s corner if it’s in their best interest.

‐ Kevin Skinner in Chambers and Partners, 2022

Kevin Skinner is genuinely interested in his cases and has a reputation for being involved in the very biggest cases. Kevin also has a particular expertise in cross-border work

‐ Kevin Skinner in the Legal 500, 2024

A caring, considerate, knowledgeable, strong advocate who knows the facts of her cases very well and has a good intuition of the issues.

‐ 2022 Client of Hannah Perry’s

I’m extremely grateful to Kevin Skinner of Goodman Ray Solicitors who helped me through a Hague Convention abduction case. It was an extremely difficult and stressful time for me, but Kevin was professional, approachable, knowledgeable and calm. He kept me informed at all times, putting my mind at ease, and advising of the best approach to take. I would highly recommend to anyone needing legal expertise.

‐ Client of Kevin Skinner

She doesn’t bat an eyelid at a case; she can manage all the issues that arise because she has seen it all before. Emma is very bright, able and good with clients.

‐ Client of Emma Sherrington

She is a forerunner in international children law and especially complex surrogacy work.

‐ Jemma Dally in Chambers and Partners, 2024

Hannah is incredibly organised and very forensic in her analysis of a case.

‐ Hannah Perry, 2023

Even if she has to present a difficult position, she does it expertly and brings people along with her. She is very good at case planning and strategy.

‐ Client of Peggy Ray

Jemma Dally  brings an innovative and creative approach to things and she takes chances. She follows her instincts and her instincts are usually right.

‐ Jemma Dally in Chambers and Partners, 2024

Peggy Ray – the doyenne of family law. Kind, down to earth despite being magnificent at every aspect of her role, she fights for her clients with courage and compassion.

‐ Peggy Ray in the Legal 500, 2021