Meet the Team

Roger has extensive experience in the field of family law built up over a career working at some of Scotland’s best known legal firms.

In addition to having a renowned track record in resolving complex and high value financial arrangements on divorce, Roger is a passionate advocate of sensible resolution of child contact and residence disputes.

While providing effective counsel, he is pragmatic and sensitive in dealing with the emotional and financial repercussions of separation and divorce.

Roger has been recognised in successive editions of the Legal 500 where clients have commented he is “efficient and highly effective” and praised his “excellent listening, negotiating and empathetic skills.”

As legal adviser to Scottish Adoption, Roger is one of a small number of solicitors in Scotland with expertise in acting exclusively for prospective adopters. He appears at courts throughout Scotland representing families in the adoption process and is recognised for having an “encyclopaedic knowledge of this field.”

Roger is a regular speaker on family law and adoption and edits the Family Law Association Bulletin.

Iona completed her traineeship with WJM during which time she gained valuable experience in private client, property and litigation law. She joined the family law practice in August 2022.

Iona advises on a wide range of family law matters, including divorce, separation, cohabitation, kinship care and child contact cases. She draws on her litigation experience to advice clients on court procedure in a wide range of actions and has experience appearing in Sheriff Courts through Scotland. She also assists her colleagues in the team in instructing Counsel in complex and high value Court of Session cases.

In particular, she has developed significant experience in adoption law, advising prospective adopters throughout the process in both uncontested and contested cases.

Iona has a keen interest in immigration and cross-border issues relevant to family law.

Iona has also undertaken the Approved Domestic Abuse Training for Solicitors offered by the Scottish Women’s Rights Centre.