Georgina Emerson

Georgina adopts a compassionate, down-to-earth and proactive approach to mediation. She focuses on creating a safe and respectful environment where each participant feels heard and supported throughout the process. Her aim is to help families move away from conflict and towards practical, workable solutions that provide clarity and certainty for the future. Georgina believes that mediation is not about winning or losing; it is about finding practical and workable solutions that both parties can live with and that enable them to move forward positively.

Drawing upon her experience as a specialist family lawyer, Georgina helps clients navigate complex financial and children-related issues constructively and cost-effectively, avoiding court proceedings wherever possible. She is particularly committed to ensuring that children's welfare remains at the heart of discussions and that families are empowered to make informed decisions about their future.

Georgina is flexible with her working arrangements and can offer in-person, shuttle or remote mediation sessions, whatever works best for everyone involved.

• Financial disputes on divorce, including complex matrimonial finances, pensions, family businesses and high-income cases
• Arrangements for children (contact arrangements between parents and helping parents to agree a sensible and child focused co-parenting plan)
• International children disputes, including child abduction and relocation cases
• Internal and international relocation of children
• Complex children cases involving schooling, holidays, parental responsibility and safeguarding concerns
• Cases involving domestic abuse, coercive and controlling behaviour
• Emergency applications relating to children and family protection
• Cohabitation disputes (unmarried couples)
• High conflict disputes involving any and all family members

Georgina is a Partner and Mediator who heads up the London Family Team at Ellis Jones. She has worked at the firm for 10 years, qualified as a solicitor in 2021 and became a Resolution-qualified Family Mediator in 2025. Georgina is recognised by Resolution as an Accredited Specialist in Child Abduction and Complex Higher Income Financial Remedies.

Alongside her mediation practice, Georgina has extensive experience advising and representing clients in complex financial disputes, children matters, domestic abuse cases, relocation applications and international child abduction proceedings. She has regularly acted in cases before the High Court and is instructed in matters involving significant assets, cross-border issues and high levels of conflict.

Georgina is recognised as a Recommended Lawyer in The Legal 500 and is ranked as an Associate to Watch by Chambers & Partners. She is also actively involved with the Child Abduction Lawyers Association (CALA), serving as an Officer of its committee, resulting in her having various international connections within the profession.