Financial Remedy 2026

HH Stephen Wildblood KC

Stephen Wildblood KC, Editor-in-Chief of Family Law Week, was the Designated Family Judge for the Bristol area for ten years before stepping down in November 2023. He practiced at the Family bar for 27 years, the last 8 ½ in silk. Stephen has extensive experience in all areas of family law, with particular expertise in public law children cases, including care proceedings and local authority matters.  He has written in over 20 legal textbooks on issues of family law and often lectures on the full range of family issues. He continues to sit, part-time, in the Family and High Courts.

Mani Singh Basi

Mani Singh Basi is a Barrister at 4PB and Managing Editor of Family Law Week. He is a specialist in international child abduction disputes and has appeared in 80 published judgments, in the High Court or Court of Appeal.. He has won many awards including the 2025 International Family Lawyer of the Year award,  2023 Family Law Junior Barrister of the Year award, the 2024 Legal Aid Barrister of the Year award, the 2024 Legal Personality of the Year winner and the 2022 Legal Commentator of the Year award. He is also an author in respect of books across different topics of family law.

Stuart Taylor-Jones

Stuart Taylor-Jones, the Family Law Week Marketing and Podcast Editor, is the Deputy Senior Clerk at Westgate Chambers. He also sits on the Committee of Resolution (East Sussex).

Stuart is continually recognised in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for Client Service at The Bar. It was recently commented that Stuart ‘is impressive’ and ‘is extremely approachable and about building long term relationships’.

In 2024, Stuart and his colleagues at Westgate Chambers won ‘Clerking Team of the Year’ at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards.

Adrian Barnett-Thoung-Holland

Adrian Barnett-Thoung-Holland, a barrister at Coram Chambers, practises exclusively in financial remedies and matters relating to divorce with particular experience in matters involving complex pension assets, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and applications for financial relief after foreign divorce under the Matrimonial Family and Proceedings Act 1984. He also appears in cases involving disputes between cohabitants under TOLATA 1996 and applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.

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Rebecca Carew Pole KC

Rebecca Carew Pole KC, a barrister at 1 Hare Court, is a leading silk in the field of matrimonial finance. She acts in complex financial disputes, mostly for high-net-worth clients and notable individuals. She has appeared in a number of the seminal cases in recent years and is at home undertaking complex jurisdiction disputes. Rebecca has been shortlisted in the prestigious Legal 500 Silk of the Year category in the 2024 Legal 500 Bar Awards.

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Professor Rebecca Bailey-Harris

Professor Rebecca Bailey-Harris, a barrister at 1 Hare Court  is a French-speaking matrimonial practitioner and former professor of law. Rebecca specialises in cross-border jurisdictional disputes and applications for financial provision following an overseas divorce. Sources respect her for her wealth of knowledge in this area.

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Brent Molyneux KC

Brent Molyneux KC, a barrister at 29 Bedford Row Chambers,  is principally known for his expertise in high net worth financial remedy cases, including those with complex international aspects.

Rhys Taylor

Rhys Taylor, a barrister at 36 Group specialises in financial remedies. He is a leading expert and a very experienced advocate in this field and related areas of law. Many of Rhys’ cases involve complex questions relating to the involvement of third parties and how their property or commercial rights relate to the parties’ financial remedy claim. Many of his cases have an international dimension with assets or parties located in different jurisdictions.

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Katharine Bundell

Katharine Bundell, a barrister at 4PB, is a financial remedy practitioner who takes on complex cases often  involving company structures, trusts, jurisdiction and international issues. She has a particularly long standing practice in trusts of land work which is most often found in cases with intervenors.

Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Lee, a barrister at Pump Court Chambers, specialises in financial remedies. She is frequently instructed to represent HNW clients in cases involving family businesses, inherited wealth, substantial pensions, nuptial agreements and trusts. Many of her cases involve tax complications and international elements, such as cross-jurisdictional issues, the validity of an overseas marriage/divorce, or claims in multiple jurisdictions. She is experienced in Schedule 1 and cohabitation disputes.

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Michael Allum

Michael Allum is a Partner at The International Family Law Group LLP.  He is ranked as a leading lawyer in both Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners Family/Matrimonial Finance HNW guides.

Michael specialises in financial issues which arise on relationship breakdown including financial provision on divorce or separation, financial provision for the benefit of children (Sch 1) and financial provision after an overseas divorce (Part III). Michael also specialises in drafting nuptial agreements.

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Samara Brackley

Samara Brackley, a barrister at 29 Bedford Row Chambers, has a busy practice in all areas of private family law. Samara’s practice focusses on financial remedies and cohabitation disputes (TLATA and Schedule 1) as well as private children law work.

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Joseph Rainer

Joseph Rainer, is a junior barrister at Queen Elizabeth Building, specialising in financial remedies. He is ranked as a leading junior in the directories. He won Family Junior of the Year at the Chambers & Partners 2025 UK Bar Awards.

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Tristan Harvey

Tristan Harvey, a barrister at Queen Elizabeth Building, is an experienced barrister specialising in dispute resolution. As a mediator he offers different models to fit the needs of his particular clients. He is accredited by the Family Mediation Council and by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and he offers Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings. Tristan is also an arbitrator in financial and children cases, a collaborative lawyer and he conducts private FDRs and early neutral evaluations.

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Matthew Warmoth

Matthew Warmoth, a barrister at FOURTEEN, has a diverse family law practice. He acts for a range of clients at all stages of financial remedies proceedings.  He regularly represents applicants, respondents and intervenors in financial remedies proceedings. He is comfortable providing advice and representing clients at all stages of proceedings. Matt is frequently instructed in cases involving complex business structures and multiple properties, as well as cases involving elements of non-disclosure, conduct and contribution.

Clare Wiseman

Clare Wiseman is Partner and National Head of Family and International Family Law at Irwin Mitchell. With over 30 years’ experience, she specialises in complex financial matters and cross-border cases.

As a Collaborative lawyer and Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, Clare is recognised for her expertise, leadership, and commitment to innovative solutions in both domestic and international family law.

Henry Clayton

Henry Clayton is a specialist matrimonial finance barrister at 4PB who is recognised in leading legal directories, Chambers & Partners and Legal 500, for his work with high net worth clients in financial remedy proceedings (often in the context of private FDRs or arbitrations) and ‘commended for his grasp of complex issues’.

Henry is known for his technical understanding of corporate financial structures, and is in demand from clients seeking a barrister with a good understanding of the commercial world.

Mark Ablett

Mark Ablett, a barrister at 29 Bedford Row Chambers has a specialist practice in family law, appearing at all levels of the Family Court and High Court having completed pupillage in October 2017. His background as the senior paralegal at a leading family law solicitors firm lends an experience of working on big money divorce cases.

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Jo Henley

Jo Henley is a solicitor in the family team at Mishcon de Reya, supporting clients through periods of change in their lives. Her experience includes divorce/dissolution, complex finances, Schedule 1 proceedings, arrangements for children, child welfare and child relocation (for married and unmarried couples), domestic abuse, pre- and post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements.

When it comes to finances, Jo is known to be forensic, detail oriented and commercial. Her cases often involve complex renumeration structures, overseas corporate entities, pensions, crypto currencies, family businesses, family trusts and inherited/pre-acquired assets, and concerns about non-disclosure where asset tracing has been necessary.

Ben Butler

Ben Butler, a Barrister at Westgate Chambers, practises in family law. In particular, he specialises in private children work, domestic abuse, non-molestation and occupation orders, and all matters in relation to family finance.

Ben brings a calm demeanour and uses his client care skills to reassure and help advise clients throughout proceedings. Ben brings a pragmatic approach to matters throughout all stages of proceedings to ensure an appropriate outcome for his clients. Ben deals with all aspects of family finances. Ben has been instructed on cases dealing with all levels of money. Further, he has dealt with issues of enforcement, competency and evading service.

Tatiana Rocha

Tatiana Rocha, a barrister at FOURTEEN has quickly developed a successful practice across all areas of family law, regularly appearing at all levels up to and including the High Court. Tatiana has represented vulnerable parties, who require a pragmatic and creative approach to ensure their needs are met, even when there are limited assets in the marital pot.

Ewan Murray

Ewan Murray, a barrister at FOURTEEN, practices exclusively in the private client elements of family law.  He provides advice and acts for clients on the financial and children aspects of relationship breakdown under Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, and Children Act 1989.  Ewan’s matrimonial finance practice increasingly involves high net worth individuals.