Areas of Practice
Track Record
Acting with Harriet Errington and Katie Male for the wife in the case of KA v MA (prenuptial agreement: needs) [2018] EWHC 499 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 92 (Apr) concerning the extent to which a court should uphold the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement which the wife sought to disregard. Taking into account all of the circumstances of the case the court largely overturned the pre-nuptial agreement, on the basis that it failed to meet the wife’s reasonable needs, and provided the wife with an award of £2.73 million, well in excess of the provision in the pre-nuptial agreement
Acting for the HNW fund manager husband in his financial remedy proceedings following his divorce (B v B (2013) EWHC 1232 (Fam)in a two week trial in the High Court, which is now the lead authority on how valuable private equity funds are to be treated in HNW financial remedy proceedings following a divorce
Acting for Mr Don Gallagher, a male civil partner in the case of Lawrence v Gallagher [2012] EWCA Civ 394 which was the first civil partnership financial relief case to reach the High Court and subsequently the Court of Appeal. The case was widely reported in the media, being the first of its kind
Awards & Rankings
Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2017 – 2023
Legal 500, Leading Individual, 2018, 2020 – 2024
Spear’s Family Lawyers Index, Top Recommended , 2019 – 2023
Chambers UK, Ranked Individual, 2017 – 2020, 2022 – 2024
Tatler HNW Address Book 2020 – 2023, Specialist in Family Law and Founding Partner
Spear’s Family Lawyers, Distinguished Individual, 2018
Education & Qualification
University of Nottingham
Qualified as a solicitor in 1983
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Read more 9 min read 08 Dec 2023 London courts: a home from home?In the New Law Journal, we discuss the wide-ranging powers of the English court to intervene following foreign divorce proceedings and the power of Pt III applications.
Read more 5 min read 01 Nov 2023 Part III applications – striking the right balanceIn The Law Society Gazette, we outline how Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 (“part III”) is a powerful, but often misunderstood, area of the law.
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