Antonia Barker

Antonia Barker advises on all aspects of divorce and financial remedies (including financial provision after foreign divorces, and for unmarried parents). She has acted for a variety of high and ultra-high net worth clients to resolve the financial issues arising from their relationship breakdown.

Antonia’s financial cases usually involve complex and/or multi-jurisdictional legal and financial issues, including all manner of offshore trust and corporate structures, dynastic wealth, and both alleged and actual non-disclosure of significant assets by one party.

Every family law case is unique. Antonia works with clients to identify their objectives and agree upon a strategic approach tailored to their needs, whether through alternative dispute resolution, or by way of court proceedings where appropriate. She is always conscious of the potential costs of the process - both financial and emotional – and takes a pragmatic approach to her cases.

Prior to joining Hamblin Family Law as a Partner in 2024, Antonia was a Partner at one of London’s leading family law firms.

Her reported cases include:

LIN v PAR [2025] EWHC 401

CG v SG [2023] EWHC 942 (Fam)

Nicolaisen v Nicolaisen [2022] EWFC 70

FRB v DCA No.4 [2021] EWHC 116 (Fam)

FRB v DCA No.3 [2020] EWHC 3696 (Fam)

FRB v DCA No.2 [2020] EWHC 754 (Fam)

MB v EB [2019] EWHC 3676 (Fam)

FRB v DCA [2019] EWHC 2816 (Fam)

MB v EB [2019] EWHC 1649 (Fam)

Quan v Bray & Ors [2018] EWHC 3558 (Fam)

Quan v Bray [2017] EWCA Civ 405

Al-Baker v Al-Baker [2016] EWHC 2510 (Fam)

Quan v Bray [2015] EWCA Civ 1253

Quan v Bray [2014] EWHC 3340 (Fam)

Resolution

• ‘Variation: Looking at all the options’ (variation of orders for periodical payments) Family Law Journal [October 2021]

• ‘Divorce: A Limited Power’ (set aside of decrees of divorce) Family Law Journal [May 2021]

• ‘Remarriage: like chalk and cheese?’ (cessation of maintenance upon cohabitation/remarriage) Family Law Journal [March 2020] (with Kate Williams)

• ‘Looking beyond the evidence’ (non-disclosure and lack of finality in litigation) Family Law Journal [April 2019]

• ‘Shared intentions’ (beneficial ownership of joint bank accounts) Family Law Journal [June 2018]

• ‘Joint lives maintenance orders and deferred capital claims in financial remedy proceedings: Quan v Bray’ Lexis PSL [January 2018]

• 'Variation of nuptial settlements in financial remedies: Part II: The process of variation’, Family Law 1107 [October 2017] (with James Webb, barrister at 1 Hare Court)

• 'Variation of nuptial settlements in financial remedies: Part I: Identifying a nuptial settlement' Family Law 978 [September 2017] (with James Webb, barrister at 1 Hare Court)

• ‘The Sound of Silence’ (adverse inferences) Family Law [December 2016]

• ‘Obstruction of truth: exploring financial relief under MFPA 1984 (Al-Baker-v-Al-Baker)’ Lexis PSL [November 2016]

• ‘Break it up’ (nuptial settlements), Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal, [July/August 2015]

Legal 500 (2025) Individual ranking: ‘Next Generation Partner’

Legal 500 (2024) Individual ranking: ‘Next Generation Partner’

Legal 500 (2023) Individual ranking: ‘Rising Star’

Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

BA Hons Classics

BPP Law School

Higher Rights of Audience, LPC (Distinction) and BPTC (Outstanding)