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Eleanor has a busy practice specialising in complex financial disputes, covering all financial remedy matters, nuptial agreements, Schedule 1 applications and financial relief after an overseas divorce, private law children disputes and matters relating to divorce and jurisdiction all of which frequently have an international dimension. She is regularly instructed in cases involving corporate and trust structures. Eleanor is commended for her pragmatic and commercial advice, thorough case preparation, swift assimilation of information, attention to detail and incisive advocacy; she works as a team with her client and solicitor to achieve the best result, whether that is through negotiation or contested litigation.

Alongside her practice as a barrister, she is an Arbitrator under both the IFLA Children Scheme and Financial Scheme and conducts private FDRs and Early Neutral Evaluation in children matters as the evaluator.

Eleanor sits as a Recorder in the Family Court on the South Eastern Circuit.

Notable cases:

• HD v WB [2023] EWFC 2
• DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6
• Agbaje v Agbaje [2010] UKSC 13
• Co v Co (Ancillary relief: Pre-marriage cohabitation) [2004] EWHC 287 (Fam)

Publications:

Eleanor is the author of the chapter on financial relief after an overseas divorce in the most recent edition of Rayden & Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters.

Called 2000.

Middle Temple Family Law Bar Association Affiliate member of Resolution Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Recorder, Family, South Eastern Circuit

St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (1998 BA History Hons); City University (1999 Dip Law).