Harcourt Chambers

Damian Broadbent regularly represents clients in both children and financial remedy cases. He is often instructed by local authorities, parents, guardians, intervenors and police forces.

Damian routinely acts in cases turning on contested factual and expert evidence and involving difficult findings of fact. Damian has been successful in bringing and challenging serious allegations such as rape and sexual assault, historical physical and sexual abuse, and serious non-accidental injuries, including head injuries. In his first three years of practice Damian undertook criminal trials in the Crown Court where he honed his abilities as a cross-examiner and witness handler.

In 2022 Damian was invited to Sierra Leone by the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone as part of a delegation of four lawyers. Damian, together with the Justice Teresa Doherty CBE, Professor Saul Lehrfreund MBE, and HHJ Heywood met judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and High Court of Sierra Leone. Damian advised on the creation of a sexual offences model court.

Call: 2019

Member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn.

2019: LLM., BPP University, Master of Laws, with Distinction.

2018: LLB., University of Liverpool, Bachelor of Laws, with Honours.