Hanne & Co

Family & DIvorce

Partner

Elinor is a Partner in the family department and deals with a broad spectrum of issues arising from family breakdown, in addition to divorce. She is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in both financial and domestic abuse cases. With regard to the latter, Elinor is noted for her particular sensitivity and experience in dealing with such difficult cases.

Elinor has extensive experience of a broad range of family law issues including divorce, matrimonial finances, cohabitation disputes, pre and post-nuptial agreements, domestic violence applications, including non-molestation and occupation orders, as well as private law children matters including successful applications for Leave to Remove children from this jurisdiction. Her finance experience includes high net worth cases, international assets and complex business interests.

Elinor frequently deals with emergency applications, whether they are without notice applications for Non-Molestation and Occupation orders, Prohibited Steps or Specific Issue orders in respect of children, or financial applications such as emergency freezing injunctions.

Being a Resolution Accredited Specialist, Elinor is also experienced in resolving matters outside of litigation and is committed to resolving disputes in a practical, constructive way in order to achieve the best outcome for her clients. She is conscious of the personal nature of family disputes and deals with the issues raised in a sensitive, considerate manner.

Elinor has a personal interest in matrimonial and non-matrimonial financial matters, with recent notable cases including:

Obtaining a freezing injunction with costs awarded; Successfully setting-aside a financial consent order where there were allegations of fraud; Settling a high net worth finance case involving an unusual conduct point that the Judge commented could have gone to the Supreme Court Successfully defending an appeal of a matrimonial finances final order and receiving a costs award.

Elinor is a Resolution Accredited specialist in Complex Financial Remedies and Domestic Abuse

University of Birmingham