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Katherine Kelsey
Position
Advises and acts in all areas of matrimonial finance. She has experience in dealing with complex cases involving high net worth and high profile individuals. She also advises and acts in relation to claims brought under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.
Katherine advises and acts in all areas of private law children work. She has experience in dealing with complex cases involving internal and external relocation and intractable contact disputes.
A qualified Mediator.
Career
Called 2003, Linclon’s Inn
Memberships
Member of the Family Law Bar Association
Member of Resolution
Member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
Member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Education
Greyfriars Hall, Oxford (2002 BA Hons Jurisprudence); Inns of Court School of Law (2003 Bar Vocational Course).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: private FDR judges and arbitrators
(leading Private FDR Judges and Arbitrators)Ranked: Tier 2Katherine Kelsey – 1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Katherine is wonderful. She is clear, calm, meticulously prepared and has sound and measured judgment. She is everything one could ask for in a private FDR judge.’
1 King’s Bench Walk is a ‘leading set for family law matters with unrivalled strength in depth at silk level’. Alexander Chandler KC is a ‘go-to private FDR judge’ and regularly acts as arbitrator in claims involving financial remedies, while Richard Castle is known for his expertise in international aspects of financial remedy and divorce. Other key members of the team include the ‘sensible, approachable, proportionate’ Nicola Fox and the ‘much liked and respected’ Katherine Kelsey , who are active across the matrimonial finance space.
London Bar > Family: divorce and financial remedy
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Katherine Kelsey –1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Katherine is an incredibly safe pair of hands. She delivers realistic, focused and pertinent advice and exudes confidence putting the most anxious client at ease.’
1 King’s Bench Walk is ‘one of the strongest sets for family law work with highly-talented leaders and juniors’. Richard Harrison KC is a ‘very clever, persuasive and strategic advocate’ with exceptional finance silks and expert at dealing with international cases involving complex issues of jurisdiction, while ‘expert cross-examiner’ Charles Howard KC’s main expertise is high net-worth financial disputes arising from divorce. Christopher Pocock KC is a ‘fantastic and impressive’ advocate experienced in financial remedy cases involving corporate and business assets. Other key members of the team include the ‘highly knowledgeable’ Richard Castle and Katherine Kelsey , who is praised for her ‘brilliant mind and written advocacy’.
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Katherine Kelsey –1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Katherine is exceptional at both children and money work. She is very user-friendly and loved by solicitors. She provides early, clear and strategic advice.’