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Nicola Frost
Work Department
Family; Mediation
Position
Nicola Frost is a specialist family law barrister. Her practice encompasses finance and private law matters. She is committed to achieving the best results for her clients and uses her strong negotiation skills to facilitate settlement, wherever possible.
Nicola’s clients appreciate her sensitive, amiable and pragmatic approach to issues, alongside her meticulous preparation and tenacity at court.
Nicola is the author of “A Practical Guide to Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements,” published in November 2021.
Nicola is married with two young children. She enjoys running, swimming and singing. She is the appointed safeguarding governor and Vice Chair of Governors at a primary school.
Family
Finance/Property
Nicola is highly experienced in matters involving financial remedies upon divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, cohabitation disputes under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (TOLATA) and applications involving provision for children under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989. Nicola also has specialist expertise in the area of prenuptial agreements and advises upon and prepares both prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Click here to listen to Nicola’s latest podcast on “pre-nuptial agreements: are they worth it?”, recorded with Get Legally Speaking.
Nicola has particular experience of:
- Prenuptial agreements / postnuptial agreements
- Consent orders (enforceability, challenge, Barder events)
- Cohabitation agreements
- TOLATA claims
- Transfers of overseas property, ensuring the enforceability of orders
- Conduct, including dissipation of assets
- Maintenance pending suit / spousal maintenance
- Farming cases
- Third party interests
- Insolvency, including transaction avoidance, non disclosure, uncovering concealed assets
- Schedule 1 to the Children Act
- Enforcement applications
- Cohabitation and conversion / delivery up
- Annulment proceedings
- Business assets
- Pensions (including Forces pensions)
- Disabled adult ‘child’ dependants
- Freezing injunctions
Private Remote FDR Hearings
Nicola is available for private remote FDR hearings. For more information on private remote FDR hearings please click here.
Private Law
Nicola has an extensive private law practice and covers the spectrum of child law matters. She is particularly experienced in relationship breakdowns involving intractable contact disputes. Nicola has a special interest in surrogacy cases and has acted and advised in this niche area of private law.
Nicola has acted in cases involving allegations of domestic and sexual abuse, psychiatric disorders and issues of alcoholism and drug misuse; she deals with complex medical evidence and has conducted lengthy fact finding hearings.
In addition to general private law practice (child arrangements, specific issue and prohibited steps orders), Nicola has acted in the following types of private law cases:
- Surrogacy
- Private adoption
- Removal from the jurisdiction (including Hague Convention)
- Internal relocation cases
- Declarations of parentage
- Non-molestation / occupation proceedings
- DNA cases
Court of Protection
Nicola is fully qualified to undertake Court of Protection cases and has been instructed on behalf of the Official Solicitor.
Public Interest Immunity / Disclosure
Nicola reviews and advises upon all aspects of PII, including compliance with the Disclosure Protocol, interaction with other agencies and balancing competing public interests. Nicola has experience of dealing with complex medical evidence and, in addition to social services’ records, is willing to review health departments’ records.
Mediation
Nicola is an Accredited Mediator – Civil & Commercial Mediation (Bristol ADR Group).
Career
Year of call 2009; Inner Temple.
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association
- Bar Pro Bono Unit
- Inner Temple
- Western Circuit
- European Circuit
- Accredited Mediator – Civil & Commercial Mediation (Bristol ADR Group)
- Advocacy Trainer (Western Circuit)
Education
- LL.B (Hons) (First Class) – Bristol Law School, UWE Bristol
- BVC (Very Competent) – Bristol Institute of Legal Practice, UWE Bristol
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Family: divorce and financial remedy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Nicola Frost – 3PB ‘Nicola is extremely thorough and her attention to detail is impressive. She has excellent client care qualities and goes the extra mile for her clients. Nicola is a calm but very persuasive advocate.’
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Family: children and domestic violence
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Nicola Frost – 3PB ‘Nicola has an amazing ability to collate huge amounts of information down to the key points without missing anything. She approaches her cases with forensic accuracy as well as a great deal of compassion for clients. She is also incredibly robust when dealing with her opponents and with the court.’
3PB’s ‘very well-rounded set’ of family law barristers is a ‘go-to’ on the Western Circuit. Lucy Hendry KC, who represents lay parties, subject children, intervenors, and guardians in factually and medically complex cases, is widely considered a ‘top-class advocate’ for both public and private children law cases, while Nicola Frost is a ‘go-to barrister for difficult private children law cases’. Her broad practice includes child abduction and Hague Convention cases, as well as surrogacy and intractable contract disputes. Former circuit judge Martin Dancey joined chambers as an associate member in January 2023 – he is active as an ADR evaluator.