Millie Benson

Practice Areas

Millie deals with complex financial remedy proceedings and is regularly instructed in high-net-worth cases, both as a junior to leading silks and in her own right. She has a particular interest and specialism in cases involving intervenors and trust assets, and has been instructed by private client teams in cases involving trust or property disputes in the family court. Millie’s financial cases commonly involve non-matrimonial assets, high-profile clients, pre-nuptial agreements, substantial wealth or international elements.

Reported Cases:

VW v VWS & Ors [2021] EWFC 128

KA v MA (Prenuptial agreement: Needs) [2018] EWHC 499 (Fam)

Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 4

Career

Magdalene College, University of Cambridge: MA (Cantab) Law (First Class);

Bundy Scholarship for performance in university exams;

Orlando Bridgman Prize for Law - awarded by Magdalene College, Cambridge. City University Bar Course (Outstanding);

Inner Temple award for performance on the BPTC. Shortlisted for Young Family Law Barrister of the Year 2018 – Family Law Awards. Member of the Family Law Bar Association.

Publications

Benson, M. Equal Shared Parenting Arrangements: A Research Digest – [2015] Aug Family Law 940

Harrison QC, R and Benson, M. Illegitimate claims? Schedule 1 claims for periodical payments by parents of adult children – [2019] May Family Law Journal