Olivia Piercy

Ranked in 3 Practice Areas

Band 2

Family/Children Law

London (Firms)

2 Years Ranked

Band 3

Family/Children Law: International Abduction, Adoption and Surrogacy

UK-wide

1 Years Ranked

Spotlight

DEI Champions

UK-wide

2 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Olivia Piercy

Practice Areas

Olivia is a partner in the family department and a skilled family lawyer with vast experience handling complex matters, such as child abduction, protection, surrogacy, and fertility law. She is also highly knowledgeable in cases involving domestic and financial abuse and coercive control.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Family/Children Law - London (Firms)

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Olivia Piercy impresses with her expertise in complex children law matters, including disputes over child welfare and international relocation cases. She is also recognised as a thought leader when it comes to matters concerning domestic abuse.

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Family/Children Law: International Abduction, Adoption and Surrogacy - UK-wide

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Olivia Piercy regularly handles international disputes, including Hague Convention proceedings and cross-border child arrangements that involve concerns over child welfare.

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DEI Champions - UK-wide

Spotlight

Individual Editorial

Olivia Piercy is a family lawyer who is known for her advocacy for domestic abuse victims. She has represented the victims of honour-based violence, female genital mutilation and forced marriage. She sat on the Foreign Office’s Forced Marriage Partnership Panel and ran a successful judicial review of the then government’s domestic violence evidence checklist for legal aid. She has also campaigned to change the law in respect of economic abuse.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

I rate her highly, she has a huge amount of experience in domestic abuse work and takes a very nuanced approach to those cases.

Family/Children Law respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia is a really good lawyer. she is very clever and has a really thorough understanding of the impact of domestic abuse on families, she really gets it from a human perspective as well.

Family/Children Law respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia Piercy has vast experience, she's charming, personable and an exceptionally able practitioner, who is in high demand.

Family/Children Law respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia has vast experience. She's charming, personable and an exceptionally able practitioner.

Family/Children Law: International Abduction, Adoption and Surrogacy respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

She is very inspiring as a person and as a lawyer. She is passionate about family law, earns trust from her clients and is highly respected by lawyers and judges alike.

Family/Children Law: International Abduction, Adoption and Surrogacy respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia Piercy is amazing to work with. She has fantastic subject matter knowledge, installs a sense of complete confidence, and is thoughtful and considered in her delivery.

Family/Children Law: International Abduction, Adoption and Surrogacy respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia never stops working to improve the family law situation for victims of abuse. She has shifted the dial towards positive change.

DEI Champions respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia is one of the thought leaders and has done work on domestica abuse in child proceedings. She is very good.

DEI Champions respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia works tirelessly for her clients and doesn't compromise her principles to get a result. She will home in what is fair and is excellent at delivering and holding people to account when needed.

DEI Champions respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia has a huge amount of experience in domestic abuse work and takes a very nuanced approach to those cases with safeguarding. She is very careful and considered.

DEI Champions respondent
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Olivia's particular strength is difficult cases dealing with domestic abuse. Her name should be up in lights!