Isla Currie
Isla joined Blanchards Law in June 2023 and is currently working towards becoming a Barrister and dual qualifying as a Solicitor Advocate. Isla was called to the Bar in October 2022 having successfully completed the Bar Practice Course earlier that year.
Throughout her time in education and working in a legal environment, Isla has developed a real love for advocacy, particularly within the family law setting. Isla prides herself in being able to understand and empathise with clients and the circumstances they find themselves in.
In October 2023, Isla qualified as an accredited Mediator and can now offer this service at Blanchards Law. Isla is a crucial member of our pet custody team and is well versed to offer mediation in pet custody disputes.
In her spare time, Isla enjoys spending time with her two dogs, three horses and two guinea-pigs.
Christine Plews
Christine is a qualified solicitor with more-than 30 years of experience in family law.
She is a highly ranked Family Mediation Council (FMC) Accredited Mediator and was noted as a Senior States person in the Family Law field in the 2023 and 2024 legal directories. Christine handles financial mediations following a divorce or separation, including where there are significant Trust or business assets, and for HNWI. She also handles parenting and children mediations, having become a Child Inclusive Mediator. Christine has a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from Oxford University which enables her to take into account some of the feelings that can be triggered by mediation.
She is a member of Resolution and the Family Mediators Association and is a diversity champion. She is on the ED&I panel for the Family Mediation Council.
Recommended in Chambers 2024 and Legal 500 2024 and Chambers High Net Worth under Family/Matrimonial: Mediators - UK-wide
What mediation service users say about Christine:
"Christine has such a huge wealth of experience and is quite unflustered; she brings all of that to her mediation."
"An exceptional and gifted mediator with years of practical family law experience under her belt."
"Christine is very experienced, has a lovely manner and is very calm and reassuring for clients. She also has a background as a family solicitor so can mediate complex technical issues."
"Christine is a fantastic and diligent professional who can put a client's mind at ease."
"Christine is really good at managing difficult situations. With her skill set as a lawyer and a mediator she offers more of a holistic approach to family law."
Punam Denley
Punam has been qualified for longer than she would care to admit. Testimonials on this website and Google reviews tell you what you need to know about her work ethic and values. Client satisfaction and personal pride in the quality of her work, as well as her dogs, are what get her out of bed in the morning.
Her cases have been reported many times in the Legal Press, the most recent being the success in the Court of Appeal in the case of Giusti v Ferragamo [2019] EWCA Civ 691. Punam successfully acted for the respondent in a High Court appeal regarding a civil restraining order in the anonymised case of [2020] EWHC 3542 (Fam).
