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St Philips Chambers Offices
St Philips Chambers
55 TEMPLE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B2 5LS
England
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Jonathan Nosworthy
Work Department
Family
Position
Jonathan Nosworthy is head of the St Philips Family Finance Team. Jonathan is ranked in Band One in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 as a specialist financial remedy practitioner. He provides advice and representation in cases involving all aspects of the financial consequences of marriage, civil partnership and other domestic relationship breakdown.
He has considerable expertise in dealing with very complex financial remedy claims involving large quantities of paperwork. He is particularly adept in dealing with cases involving substantial assets, business assets, overseas assets, pensions, trusts and the intervention of third parties. Further, he has significant experience in conducting cases involving applications to preserve assets (freezing orders) and involving applications to set aside transactions.
He also has extremely detailed knowledge of the law in relation to trusts of land and Schedule One of the Children Act 1989. Jonathan is one of the authors of “Cohabitation Claims – A Resolution Guide.”
He has provided seminars and lectures to other members of the legal profession on these topics.
His clients include business people, professional sportsmen, barristers, solicitors, medics, accountants, farmers, landowners and their spouses.
Jonathan receives instructions to sit as a private FDR judge.
Career
Called 2000; Middle Temple.
Deputy District Judge (sitting in Civil and the Financial Remedies Court).
Education
Birmingham University (BSc Hons); College of Law (Dip Law; BVC); Middle Temple (Harmsworth Scholar).
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Family: divorce and financial remedy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Jonathan Nosworthy –St Philips Chambers ‘Jonathan is always meticulously prepared, incredibly sensible and pragmatic. He is an excellent negotiator and equally effective advocate who always seems to hit the right note with the judges.’
St Philips Chambers is ‘a top-notch set’ with ‘a wide range of barristers with varying levels of experience and expertise’, regularly instructed in high-value cases involving a complex company and trust structures, often with international elements. Jonathan Nosworthy leads the team and is highly regarded as ‘a measured, persuasive and immensely talented advocate’ in financial remedy cases involving business structures and pre-acquired assets. ‘Fearless advocate’ Leisha Bond ‘always fights very hard for her clients’ and her practice encompasses the full spectrum of work within financial remedy proceedings. Juliet Allen is ‘an excellent advocate who has a particular strength in financial remedy cases involving businesses, pensions or novel areas of law’.