Areas of Practice
Track Record
Acting with Harriet Errington and Katie Male for the wife in the case of KA v MA (prenuptial agreement: needs) [2018] EWHC 499 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 92 (Apr) concerning the extent to which a court should uphold the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement which the wife sought to disregard. Taking into account all of the circumstances of the case the court largely overturned the pre-nuptial agreement, on the basis that it failed to meet the wife’s reasonable needs, and provided the wife with an award of £2.73 million, well in excess of the provision in the pre-nuptial agreement
Acting for the HNW fund manager husband in his financial remedy proceedings following his divorce (B v B (2013) EWHC 1232 (Fam)in a two week trial in the High Court, which is now the lead authority on how valuable private equity funds are to be treated in HNW financial remedy proceedings following a divorce
Acting for Mr Don Gallagher, a male civil partner in the case of Lawrence v Gallagher [2012] EWCA Civ 394 which was the first civil partnership financial relief case to reach the High Court and subsequently the Court of Appeal. The case was widely reported in the media, being the first of its kind
Awards & Rankings
Chambers UK, Ranked Individual, 2017 – 2020, 2022
Legal 500, Leading Individual, 2018, 2020 – 2022
Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2017 – 2021
Spear’s 500, Top Recommended Family Lawyers, 2019 – 2021
Tatler HNW Address Book 2020, Specialist in Family Law and Founding Partner
Spear’s Family Lawyers, Distinguished Individual, 2018
Education & Qualification
University of Nottingham
Qualified as a solicitor in 1983
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In CityAM, Bloomberg Wealth, The Law Society Gazette and Spears, Family Partner, Harriet Errington comments on today’s record £554m divorce settlement awarded to Princess Haya in her divorce from Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Read more 11 min read 06 Dec 2021 Relationships: Life on the edge?In the recent edition of the Family Law Journal (Legallease), Family Partner, Emily Brand explores whether there should be legal reform to protect the rights of ‘throuples’.
Read more 5 min read 22 Nov 2021 Divorce & the family business: The lessons that can be learnt from The ArchersAs the divorce storyline in the country’s favourite radio soap opera, The Archers, unfolds Family Partner, Harriet Errington highlights that the best way to ensure that family business assets are protected in the event of a divorce is to enter into a pre-nuptial agreement, which ring-fences the shares and provides alternative ways of meeting the other party’s needs.
Read more 4 min read 15 Nov 2021 Call for legal reform after surrogacies fallPrior to Covid, surrogacy had been steadily on the rise in recent years. Parental orders, which transfer the parentage of a baby born to a surrogate mother to the intended parent, rose 17% from 441 in 2015/16 to 520 in 2019/20. However, coronavirus-related restrictions, for example on travel, have led to the first drop since 2014/15.
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