Emily Ward

Practice Areas

Emily is Deputy Head of Family and is highly sought after and well respected for her expertise and approach in the field of matrimonial finance. She regularly appears in high net worth and complex cases, including against silks, involving business structures, pensions, farming assets, insolvency and bankruptcy, nuptial agreements, and trusts. Emily’s practice also encompasses property disputes between cohabitants, claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family & Dependants) Act 1975 and applications pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989. Emily embraces all forms of ADR. She is regularly appointed to act as private FDR practitioner/judge and sits as an Arbitrator in financial remedy cases. As a Deputy District Judge, Emily is authorised to hear public, private children and financial remedy cases. In the children law sphere, Emily often appears in cases involving serious domestic abuse, intractable hostility, parental alienation and relocation. She has conducted several lengthy and difficult fact finding hearings, including those involving allegations of coercive and controlling behaviour. She has a growing practice in appellate litigation too. Emily is a member of the editing team at Butterworths Family Law Service, Butterworths Civil Court Precedents, and is co-editor of ‘Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents’. She also sits on the Editorial Board at the Financial Remedies Journal.

Professional Memberships

LL.B(Hons) University of Manchester

Bar Professional Training Course

Deputy District Judge (Civil, Public & Private Children tickets)

Deputy District Judge of the Financial Remedies Court

FLBA (Regional Secretary)

Association of Women Judges

International Association of Women Judges

Financial Remedies Journal