JUNIOR PROFILE

Nicholas Starks

UK Bar 2026

St Ives Chambers

Ranked in 1 practice area

Family: Matrimonial Finance

Midlands (Bar)

7 years ranked

About

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UK Bar

Practice Areas

Family/Matrimonial

Career

Nicholas has over 30 years' experience in family financial provision (divorce, TLATA, IPFDA, Schedule 1 Children Act and civil partnerships).

His work involves high net worth claims featuring businesses, farming, overseas assets, trusts, pensions and variation of nuptial settlements.

He is head of Chambers’ Family Finance team and was voted ‘Barrister of the Year, 2019’ by Worcestershire Law Society. He sits as a Deputy District Judge in civil and specialist financial remedy cases on the Midlands Circuit and as a private FDR evaluator. He is a member of Lexis Nexis’ panel of experts and is a keen contributor to legal publications and as a CPD speaker on circuit.

Nicholas was commended by the Court of Appeal for his “lucid argument” in Kaur v Matharu [2010] EWCA Civ 930 and appeared in the nationally publicised case of Colborne v Colborne [2014] EWCA Civ 1488. Other reported decisions include LF v DF 2021 EWFC B50.

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Nicholas is a member of the LexisNexis panel of experts for Matrimonial/Finance.

Chambers Review

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UK Bar

Family: Matrimonial Finance - Midlands (Bar)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Nicholas Starks is an excellent advocate who largely focuses on multifaceted financial provision cases arising from divorce as well as under TOLATA, Schedule 1 applications and the Civil Partnership Act. He is regularly instructed in disputes of a high-value and complex nature concerning farms, businesses and other kinds of assets. He shows further expertise in nuptial settlements.

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Strengths

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In my opinion, he's the best barrister dealing with financial matters that you can instruct in Birmingham. He is hugely helpful to instructing solicitors.
Family: Matrimonial FinanceUK Bar
Nicholas Starks is an excellent advocate, with a fantastic manner and consistently achieves excellent results. Nick is detail-driven and manages complex cases with ease and style.
Family: Matrimonial FinanceUK Bar