Family: Matrimonial Finance

Richard Todd is the counsel of choice for the best and biggest cases. He knows the law backwards and can easily reach for cases of relevance that no one else has heard about.

A lawyer who is so much in control of his brief. Richard's natural stage is before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

Tim is brilliant with clients - he's always reassuring and delivers honest and realistic advice. He is a confident, authoritative advocate who always has the ear of the court.

He's thorough, innovative and a great strategist.

He's one of the real greats at the Bar - he's charming and someone who argues very well for his clients. He's an excellent advocate with great gravitas.

Deborah is a first-class advocate at the top of her game, who fights very hard for her clients. She is phenomenal and a force to be reckoned with.

Clients love her.

She is unfailingly accurate in her predicted outcomes of cases - always all over the papers. She's very much part of the team and very easy to have an ongoing dialogue with.

She's good-humoured, gets on brilliantly with clients and is a highly effective strategist and negotiator.

Emma's very calm, hugely determined and someone who will fight for her clients. She's a skilled advocate with incredible judgement, who is very hot on case preparation.

She's very strategic, very good at anticipating outcomes and very good in her interactions and engagement with clients. She has their trust.

Emma has exceptional poise and charm and outstanding client care skills. She has a great ability to make vulnerable clients feel comfortable and empowered.

One of the best financial silks out there. Geoffrey is incredibly pragmatic in his advice, tactically astute and a brilliant advocate.

Geoffrey is utterly committed to delivering client-focused advice. His warm and compassionate approach gives his clients enormous reassurance.

Meticulously prepared, very supportive of instructing solicitors and a lawyer who goes the extra mile.

He's a persuasive advocate, who's intellectual and on top of the law.

Mature beyond her years, incredibly calm and very strategic in her advice, she's a silk in waiting.

Understated, charming and unflappable. She knows every point and everyone listens to her.

A trusted advocate, well respected by both instructing solicitors and clients.

She is an absolutely brilliant international lawyer, who thoroughly understands cases with a foreign dimension to them. Lily is head and shoulders above other barristers of her generation.

Lily is quite exceptional. She is thorough, detailed and very knowledgeable about a wide range of tricky aspects of family law and associated financial matters.

He's a very pragmatic, numerate, incredibly enthusiastic and hard-working silk who is in demand for cases with assets comfortably over £50 million.

Nicholas is exceptional in every way. He is a calm, focused advocate, whose advocacy is fluent and to the point. He is great with the lay client and readily available to his instructing solicitor.

She offers excellent insight into black letter law and really gets down to the nitty-gritty.

Rebecca Bailey-Harris is brilliant for cross-border jurisdiction issues.

A master tactical lawyer possessed of both charm and wisdom.

Simon is one of the greatest brains at the Bar. He can deal with really difficult issues that look insurmountable and find the answer.

Simon has an unbelievable brain. He is able to simplify the most complex issues and to come up with a strategy in which the client and solicitors can have the utmost confidence.

One of the most wanted juniors at the Bar.

Ben is a really strong junior who has a great eye for detail and the intricacies of a case.

Ben has a razor-sharp focus on delivering on a client's priorities, whether that be through his powerhouse advocacy or thoughtful written work.

An agile negotiator, who is the consummate pragmatist. He has a knack for finding elegant solutions to knotty problems.

Always a pleasure to instruct, Ben goes the extra mile for clients and solicitors on his cases. As a result, he is highly sought after for the most complex and difficult matters.

He gets all the intellectually difficult cases and for good reason.

He is hard-working, fiendishly bright and commercially astute, and will be one of the greats of his generation.

An excellent and confident junior, who inspires confidence in clients and gets good outcomes. He's one of the new breed of go-to juniors.

She is always really well prepared and fights her client's corner well.

Jude is able to unpick tricky cases and get them into a position where we're able to settle. She's good at bringing the client along with her as they trust her judgement.

She is very highly regarded and for very good reason - Jude’s legal knowledge and judgement are excellent. She is a tough but fair opponent, who is honest and the consummate professional.

He's particularly skilled in explaining complex areas of the law in a way that clients find digestible. They feel he is going to fight their corner.

He's just extremely clever and able to grasp very complicated issues and present them in a very effective way in court.

Justin's intellectual and humane approach to cases is very effective. He uses his considerable charm and wit to bring the clients and the judges along with him.

A lawyer of great skill, who has charm and a sense of humour.

Kyra is a brilliant advocate, who instils confidence in clients. She can digest a huge amount of complex information and is all over the detail in a case.

Enormously capable and one to watch.

Kyra exudes confidence and charm. She's excellent when challenged.

A polished, assured, extremely well-prepared junior, who is an excellent advocate.

She's highly knowledgeable about the law and she puts arguments precisely and coherently.

Nichola is absolutely excellent in every way. She is always incredibly well prepared, she gives no-nonsense advice and she is extremely good on her feet.

Nichola Gray is one of the best lawyers at the Family Bar. She is meticulously prepared for every case, incredibly clever and someone with a photographic memory.

Brilliant on the detail and reassuringly calm.

Nick is a powerful advocate in the courtroom, who brings bags of energy to a case, and uses his incisive mind to drive matters forward. Clients love him, and solicitors are grateful to him.

His advice to clients is always pragmatic and considered. Highly intelligent, confident and persuasive, he's a powerful advocate in the courtroom. He's an excellent lawyer and a silk in the making.

A thorough, committed and engaging practitioner with a bright future ahead of him.

A great preparer of a case and a sound adviser who has the human touch.

He ticks every box and is an all-round great performer.

Phil Blatchley is an excellent senior junior and a star of the future. A man with a real brain, but also someone who is great with clients, he is a genuine pleasure to work with.

Rebecca is a very talented advocate. She's super smart, highly astute and very knowledgeable.

Rebecca is incredibly impressive and a force to be reckoned with. She takes a no-nonsense, constructive approach.

A very elegant advocate.

A brilliant all-rounder, who's already performing beyond his years. He's incredibly reliable, bright and astute, and also highly commercial in his approach.

Tom is very good with clients. He provides clear and pragmatic advice.

Thomas Harvey is everything you'd want in a junior. He's a good communicator, who's strong in conference and doesn't shy away from giving robust advice.

Ann is client-focused, technically excellent and a master of her craft. She is an impressive advocate, whom clients warm to.

A supremely tenacious advocate, who always asks the right questions. She's creative, solution-focused and loved by clients.

Christian is a superlative barrister whose advocacy is stunning and attention to detail and legal knowledge are exemplary. Clients love him for his measured and assured approached.

Highly intelligent and supremely effective, he is able to assimilate huge amounts of information and distil the most complex issues down to what is important.

He has absolutely amazing insight into the law and a calm bedside manner with the clients. Very confident and inspiring on his feet, he always has the ear of the judge.

Brilliant with clients and great on really difficult cases.

Studious, organised and adept at persuasive advocacy. He's also very client-friendly and solicitor-friendly.

He is very measured, very calm and very clear in how he sets things out in writing.

John was incredibly helpful on an urgent and complex matter. He was not fazed by the situation and was able to give practical and helpful advice.

A very clever, experienced and unflappable senior junior, who is at ease advising on high net worth and complex cases.

She's pragmatic when needed in negotiations, and has the ability to see the bigger picture at the same time as advancing robust arguments to protect her clients' interests.

Her advice is clear and impeccable.

A sharp and technically brilliant barrister, who is very easy to work with.

Her attention to detail is phenomenal.

Really punchy in her submissions and good on her feet. She's one of those barristers who really cares about the client and she really goes for it in court. 

Madhavi produces high-quality documents based on strong legal arguments, and has an inspiring courtroom style.

He's very friendly and an excellent advocate, who provides a fine service.

Edward is the outstanding junior of his class and delivers a legal service far above his level of experience.

He is very much an up-and-coming name to be reckoned with. He punches above his weight, and is very professional and hard-working.

She is so clear, comprehensive and confident in her advice. She will be an absolute star of the future.

Georgina is wise beyond her years. She's exceptionally bright and one to watch for the future.

His knowledge and handling of complex issues are at another level.

He is incredibly bright, perceptive and calm. His drafting is always excellent and his submissions measured and impactful.

Even my clients when on the other side of him like him.

An extremely impressive barrister, who goes above and beyond the call of duty in his work.