Edward Devereux KC

Career

Edward was called to the Bar in 2001 and appointed KC in 2017. He was the youngest specialist family barrister to be appointed a KC in the last twenty years. He is widely regarded to be one of the leading barristers of his generation.

Edward acted for Rocco Ritchie in disputes between his mother Madonna and his father Guy Ritchie, for the parents of Archie Battersbee in their efforts seeking to resist the application of a NHS Trust to withdraw life sustaining treatment from their son, and for the family of AH, who was said to be “the most complex Covid patient in the world”.

Edward has a wide-ranging practice in family law. Many of his cases have significantly changed the law in the UK or around the world.

Amongst other significant cases, Edward represented one of the parties in the landmark ADR case of AI v MT (Alternative Dispute Resolution) [2013]. He represented the applicant in a case that concerned one of the largest ever reported monetary awards in the UK involving an unmarried couple; was the principal author of an Amicus Brief for Reunite Child Abduction Centre in the matter Monasky v Taglieri (No. 18-935) before the United States Supreme Court; and has acted for the UK government in domestic and international cases.

Over the course of his career, he has appeared before, or presented submissions to, a large number of different national and international courts and appeared in over 80 cases reported in the Family Law Reports.