About
I am recognised as a leading family lawyer in the UK, ranked in Band 1 by Chambers and the Legal 500. I am also featured in the “Top Flight” of the Spear’s 500 index. My work was honoured with the ‘Family Lawyer of the Year award’ at the 2018 Spear's Wealth Management Awards.
My expertise extends to financial disputes involving trusts, inherited wealth, family businesses, offshore assets, and the drafting of pre/post-nuptial agreements. I also handle financial provision for children of unmarried parents and relationship/cohabitation agreements. I am equally adept at dealing with complex financial issues and the most difficult cases concerning disputed arrangements for children.
As Head of our Middle East Family Practice, I bring an understanding of Islamic family law issues. I am a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and my international family law practice includes applications for financial settlement following overseas divorce, child relocation cases and jurisdiction disputes, with a particular focus on Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, and the Middle East.
I often advise high-profile clients from the sports and media sectors and am accustomed to managing privacy concerns. My contributions to legal literature include co-authoring Privacy and Disclosure for Family Lawyers for Resolution and Child Contact: Law and Practice for Law Society Publishing.
I am admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- L v O [2024] (Stay of Order/Hadkinson Order/Security for Costs) EWFC 6
- AA v BB (Brussels II Revised/Hague Convention 1996) [2021] EWFC 17
- R v R (interim periodical payments and Legal Services Order Provision) [2021] EWHC 195 (Fam)
- Re K (A Child) (Stay of Return Order: Asylum Application) (Contact to Parent in Self-Isolation) [2020] EWHC 2394 Fam
- RJ v Tigipko [2019] EWHC 448 (Fam)
- Re J (Children: Permission to Remove from Jurisdiction) [2018]EWCA Civ 1372
- S and V (Children - Leave to Remove) [2018] EWFC 26
- Rotenberg v Times Newspapers UKSC 2017/0192
- Rotenberg v Rotenberg [2015] EWCA Civ 796
- Fields v Fields [2015] EWHC 1670 (Fam)
- Re A (A Child) (Financial Provision: Wealthy Parent) [2015] 2 FLR 625
- Luckwell v Limata [2014] EWHC 502
- G v G (Financial Remedies: Strike out) [2012] Fam Law 800
- Moore v Moore [2007] All ER (D) 158
- W v W (Residence: Enforcement of Order) [2005] All ER (D) 41
- Re D (Stay of Children Act Proceedings) [2003] 2 FLR 1159
