About
Technical excellence. Strategic clarity. Pragmatic solutions.
As head of Family Law and Divorce, Sarah has over twenty years’ experience in dealing with complex and high value divorces and financial settlements, in and out of the court process, as well as international divorce issues, and pre and post nups to protect wealth. She advises people getting divorced or looking to protect assets for the future, families and family offices on the financial consequences of divorce.
“Sarah is a force of nature. Utterly committed and fiercely intelligent.” Legal 500
She is consistently recognised among the country’s leading family lawyers – ranked in Band 1 in Chambers and Partners UK High Net Worth Guide, where she is recognised as being “very pragmatic, solution-focused and creative and kind. She is good at understanding her client’s ultimate objectives” and a “simply an outstanding lawyer who it is a pleasure to work with. Her knowledge on pension issues is second to none; she is simply the best. She is very commercially aware”. She is a “Star Individual” in Chambers UK and a “Leading Partner” in Legal 500.
Sarah is particularly known for her technical knowledge and work on pensions on divorce, as the leading family solicitor in this area. A Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers since 2015, she co-chairs their Pensions Committee. She sits on many technical committees and working parties, including the Pensions Advisory Group (and PAG2), the FJC Financial Remedies Working Party and the Duxbury Working Party , Resolution’s Financial Remedies, Tax and Pension Committee, which she chairs.
That said, Sarah is about solutions – she works hard to resolve matters out of court and to understand what people want to achieve. However, where litigation is necessary, she has acted as the lead partner in the following reported financial remedy cases:
AF v GF [2024] EWHC 3487 (Fam) and EWHC 3479 (Fam) – complex financial remedy proceedings involving substantial business interests and matrimonial and non matrimonial wealth.
S v S [2014] EWHC 4732 (Fam) – again dealing with substantial pre marital business assets and the treatment of matrimonial and non-matrimonial assets.
Chambers HNW also says “Sarah is incredibly bright, articulate and really knows her stuff. She has real technical knowledge that is impressive”.
She is in Tatler’s Address Book as a recommended family lawyer.
