Harley joined Carter Lemon Camerons LLP in May 2024 as a Solicitor in the Family and Litigation departments, having qualified the same year, following several years of experience within both private practice and in-house legal teams.

Harley advises clients on a broad range of private family law and civil litigation matters.

Her family law practice includes divorce and separation, financial remedy proceedings, cohabitation disputes, non-molestation and occupation order applications, and matters relating to children. She also has experience dealing with overlapping family and property disputes, including TOLATA claims and disputes concerning beneficial interests in property.

Alongside her family law work, Harley maintains a varied civil litigation caseload with particular experience in housing and property disputes, landlord and tenant matters, debt recovery, insolvency proceedings, contractual disputes, and general contentious matters.

Harley regularly assists clients throughout all stages of proceedings, from initial instruction through to negotiation, settlement, and final hearings. She has experience drafting a wide range of court documentation, pleadings, witness statements, and applications, and works closely with counsel and experts across both family and litigation matters.

Her dual-specialism background allows her to provide clients with practical, pragmatic, and commercially focused advice, particularly where family, property, and financial issues intersect.

Prior to qualifying as a Solicitor, Harley gained experience across family law, litigation, and dispute resolution, developing a strong foundation in contentious matters and client care.

Harley obtained her LLB Law degree from Nottingham Trent University before completing her LPC and Master’s degree at BPP University, where she achieved a distinction in her Family Law elective.

Outside of work, Harley enjoys travelling, time outdoors, and spending time with her friends and family.

Seamus Smyth is head of litigation and arbitration. His practice is primarily commercial with an emphasis on arbitration, financial services and work for South African and Italian clients.

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His reported cases include RH Green & Silley Weir v BR (limitation period against 3rd party), de Bry v Fitzgerald (security for costs), Hartt v Newspaper Publishing (libel concerning a work by Michelangelo), Pearson v Sanders Witherspoon (valuation of loss of chance), Siebe Gorman v Pneupac (status of consent orders), Senate Electrical v NTL (liability of an employee for acquisition warranties) and Bendell v Smith & Others (a successful recovery action by a lender on a shared appreciation mortgage equity release – the only such case to go to trial).

Recently involved in enforcement of foreign arbitration awards, claims arising from the banking upheavals since 2007, a successful claim against a high street bank resulting from a banking error, a successful claim against estate administrators and their solicitors for wasting the estate funds on irresponsible litigation and the recently-reported case of RRY v NKX [2025] EWHC 41 (Comm), dealing with time-limits in  connection with applications under S68 and S69 of the Arbitration Act 1996.

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Educated (BA, LLB, Wits) and first qualified as an attorney in South Africa, he requalified in England in 1977, took an LLM at UCL and a Diploma in International Arbitration at QM, and became an FCIArb. He was for two terms the chairman of the British South African Law Association, chairman of Michaelhouse UK Trust, chairman of Global Leadership Foundation (UK), a former President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association and Trustee and President of Town Malling Cricket Club (established in 1827!).  He was until 2012 a Visiting Senior Lecturer in International Commercial Arbitration at London Metropolitan University.  When work and domesticity permit he plays some cricket and more golf (but – which is immediately obvious – not nearly enough).