Education
Marilyn Stowe was educated at Leeds Girls" High School and the University of Leeds.
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Marilyn Stowe
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Career
She has been described by The Times as "one of the most formidable and sought-after divorce lawyers in the United Kingdom", and described as "one of the country"s leading divorce lawyers". Mrs Stowe is described as "First Class" by the Legal 500 and as an "Eminent Practitioner" by Chambers & Partners. She founded Stowe Family Law, the United Kingdom"s largest specialist family law firm, in 1982.
The firm has offices in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Leeds, Wetherby and Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Hale and Wilmslow, Cheshire, Central London, Street Albans and Winchester.
She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers ("IAML"), a worldwide association of family lawyers who are recognised by their peers as the most experienced and expert family law specialists in their respective countries. She was among the first 35 solicitors, barristers and ex-judges to qualify as a family law arbitrator in 2012.
The family law arbitration scheme operates in England and Wales and was developed by the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators ( International Federation of Library Associations).
She is also known for unearthing the medical evidence that freed, the victim of a famous British miscarriage of justice. The convictions were upheld at appeal in October 2000. Marilyn Stowe volunteered her involvement in the case, providing her services free of charge because she felt that "something was not right".
She obtained key medical reports, which showed that one of the babies could have died from natural causes.
This evidence had been known to the prosecution"s pathologist, Alan Williams, since February 1998, but had not been shared with other medical witnesses, police or lawyers. The Clark family"s solicitor described Marilyn Stowe as "the woman who"s going to get Sally out of prison".
"s convictions were overturned in a second appeal on 29 January 2003. The prosecution"s pathologist, Alan Williams, was found guilty of "serious professional misconduct" by the General Medical Council.
Membership
As a result she is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). In 2012 she became a member of the Legal Advisory Group to the Law Commission (England and Wales) regarding matrimonial property. In 2007 she was a member of a Legal Advisory Group that reviewed the rights of cohabiting couples.
