Edward Benson

Ed practises in the financial and international elements of family law. He specialises in financial remedy work (including Part III and Schedule 1 claims), jurisdiction disputes, cohabitee claims under TLATA, and nuptial agreements. He also sits as a private FDR evaluator.

Ed regularly represents clients in complex and high profile financial remedy cases led by silks. He has appeared in the High Court in his own right on multiple occasions and in 2023 he appeared in the Court of Appeal, led by Richard Todd KC.

Ed frequently undertakes advisory and drafting work. He has a growing offshore practice, providing advice and representation this year on English law issues in cases in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and Switzerland.

Having undertaken pupillage at a leading commercial Chambers, Ed has a particular interest in the areas where commercial and trust law overlap with family law. He has significant expertise and experience acting in ‘intervenor’ cases involving third party claims in financial remedy proceedings, appearing in several of the recent leading authorities involving intervenors.

Call 2019. Pupillage at 4 New Square (commercial set).

Prior to pupillage, Ed was the Harold G Fox Scholar at Canada's leading litigation firm, working on complex financial and public law cases. He also was a judicial assistant at the Ontario Court of Appeal, and a trainee in the Cabinet of Bernd Hammerman at the EFTA Court in Luxembourg.

FLBA, Resolution, Advocate (formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit), Lincoln’s Inn.

Ed is an editor of Rayden and Jackson, specifically the chapter on Injunctions in aid of financial proceedings.

Ed lectures on topics of interest in family law to both large conferences and firms of solicitors.

Ed graduated with a First-Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford Unversity. He then undertook his legal training at BPP Law School and City University.

Ed was awarded numerous scholarships and prizes throughout his studies. These include:

St Edmund Hall, Oxford University: Open Scholarship (2015), Final Honour School Prize (2016).

Oxford University: Ranked 1st in Year: British Politics and Government (2016).

City, University of London: Academic Scholarship (2017).

Inns of Court: Hardwicke Award (2017), Lord Denning Scholarship (2017), EFTA Court Scholarship (2018), Harold G. Fox Scholarship (2018).

Other: 2nd Prize: UK Law Society Association International Mooting and Advocacy Competition (2018).