Shona Young

Shona is a Legal Director at Gilson Gray LLP, based in Edinburgh. She has worked exclusively in the area of family law since qualifying as a solicitor, and specialised in the field during her traineeship.

Shona advises clients on a broad range of complex issues, including financial provision upon separation and divorce, cohabitation agreements and disputes, protective domestic orders, and child related matters. Shona is noted for her empathetic, yet no nonsense, approach. She strives to negotiate and resolve disputes out with of a court setting but, when that is not possible, she is experienced in litigating matters both in the Sheriff Courts and in the Court of Session. She regularly appears in Sheriff Courts all over Scotland.

In addition, Shona is the current Chair of Family Journeys (formerly known as Family Mediation Lothian), who are a member service of Relationship Scotland, and provide a range of services for families in mediation, family connections centres, children’s groups and support for parenting apart across Edinburgh and the Lothians.