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Deborah Eaton KC

Deborah Eaton KC

Work Department

Private Law ChildrenFinance

Position

Deborah is highly successful and enjoys an excellent reputation nationally and internationally as a pre-eminent authority in children law. Her expertise in this area includes internal and external relocation, parental alienation, substance abuse, mental health and education issues. She is also extremely well respected in the matrimonial finance and enforcement field offering tremendous experience in ancillary relief cases, prenuptial agreements and applications pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989. For many years she has handled some of the most significant, far-reaching and complex cases in the field of family law for both UHNW and high-profile clients. Almost all her work has an international dimension.

In addition to being technically challenging, Deborah’s cases are often strategically and tactically complex, and require a highly sensitive, skillful and nuanced approach. She is naturally able to make an outstanding contribution in all these areas.

Career

Qualified 1985, Inner Temple; general editor and author ‘Encyclopaedia of Financial Provision in Family Matters’ Wildblood and Eaton (Sweet & Maxwell 1998).

Memberships

FLBA Deputy High Court Judge [2011] Recorder [Crime, Private Law Children and Public Law Children] 2004 Master of the Bench Inner Temple Fellow of the International Family Law Association Midland Circuit

Education

Keele University (BSc Sc); City University (Dip Law).

Mentions

London Bar

Family: children and domestic abuse

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Deborah Eaton KC –1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Deborah is a superstar of the Bar, and her experience and knowledge of children’s cases is unrivalled. Her understanding of how people work is amazing, and she knows how to unlock the most difficult cases. She always has the ear of the judge and knows how to pitch her advocacy to the circumstances.’
London Bar

Family: divorce and financial remedy

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Deborah Eaton KC –1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Deborah is phenomenal. She is tough, tenacious, insightful, thorough and devastatingly effective in her cross-examination. She gets straight to the heart of the issue, and can give legs to the weakest cases.'