David Burles

Practice Areas

Matrimonial Finance, Schedule 1 and other disputes between unmarried partners, private law children.

Work involves financial disputes where the assets are substantial / ‘big money’, as well as ‘middle-money’ cases and some complicated low asset disputes. Cases typically focus on issues surrounding disputed and complex assets, privately-owned equity and trust structures, non-disclosure issues, company valuations, non-mainstream income cases and competing international claims.

Notable cases include: Dixon v Marchant (CA) [2008] 1 FLR 655, 4 Eng Ltd v Harper (No 2), [2009] EWHC 2633 (Ch); N v N (Ancillary Relief) [2010] 2 FLR 1093, ABC v PM [2015] EWFC 32, FN v AC [2019] EWHC 3806 (Fam).

Career

Called to the Bar (Middle Temple) - 1984

Deputy District Judge (Civil) (2007) – sits in the Financial Remedies Court generally, in the Financial Remedy Unit (complexity list) and also appointed to hear private law children disputes in 2010.

Sitting on SE Circuit (Civil) and at the Central Family Court including the Financial Remedies Unit / Financial Remedies Court.

Professional Memberships

MCIArb (financial disputes)

Member of the Legal Advisory Group to the Law Commission Cohabitation Law Project 2005-07

Member of the Legal Advisory Group to the Law Commission ‘Enforcement of Family Financial Orders’ project 2016.

FLBA Member, Common Law Bar Association.

Publications

Co-author of "Applications Under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989", Contributor to Halsbury's Laws (children - financial claims), Contributor to Butterworths Civil Court Precedents - ('children/family breakdown').

Articles in The Times, Family Law, Family Law Week, Solicitors Journal, New Law Journal.