Fiona Davidson
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Family/Matrimonial
Band 1
About
Provided by Fiona Davidson
Practice Areas
Fiona heads the Liverpool family law team and manages the renowned national family team at Weightmans across our offices. She is recognised by Legal 500 2023 as a Leading Individual in family law in the North West. And is a First tier ranked solicitor in Chambers and Partners.
Fiona specialises in financial and children issues arising out of relationship breakdown with particular expertise in complex divorces involving company, partnership and trust issues.
She has a significant practice in pre, post marital and cohabitation agreements, as well as a wealth of experience in dealing with children cases, particularly involving international relocation.
Fiona is known for her strategic and focused advice in delivering results for clients. Her understanding of the needs of clients enables her to offer a first-rate and bespoke service to her clients resulting in regular referrals from fellow professionals including barristers and other members of the legal profession.
Fiona is keen to offer alternatives to litigation with a child centred and amicable approach to separation. She is a trained collaborative lawyer, she chaired the Merseyside collaborative law group for over six years. She is an active member of . She also sits on the Liverpool Law Society Family Committee helping to shape local family law issues.
Fiona is recognised as a leader in her field in both independent legal directories, Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, being described as ‘excellent – reassuring, technically able and clear and calm’ ‘technically excellent; really approachable and able to build a real rapport with clients, who trust her implicitly’. ‘an incredibly robust solicitor who is phenomenal for her clients and will fight incredibly hard to get results for them’ , ‘she is a brilliant financial specialist who offers top notch advice’
Chambers Review
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Fiona Davidson is head of the Liverpool family law team at Weightmans and also leads the national team. She is particularly strong in financial remedy proceedings while also assisting clients with postnuptial agreements and Children Act proceedings.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fiona combines force and steel with charm and good humour. She's very straight to the line, does very good, high-quality work and is a pleasure to work with. It's always a team effort with her."
"Fiona is highly experienced and very knowledgeable. She is calm and empathetic with clients and good at managing expectations; she is a very good communicator."
"Fiona combines force and steel with charm and good humour. She's very straight to the line, does very good, high-quality work and is a pleasure to work with. It's always a team effort with her."
"Fiona is highly experienced and very knowledgeable. She is calm and empathetic with clients and good at managing expectations; she is a very good communicator."