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Mr Christopher Pocock KC
Position
Queen’s Counsel specialising in divorce and matrimonial finance in disputes between high net worth parties. He has a wealth of experience dealing with complexities involving corporate and other businesses and/or complex remuneration packages, as well as with cases involving offshore and onshore trust and other asset-holding structures. Many, if not most, of his cases involve international and cross-border aspects, either substantively or in relation to enforcement.
Qualified IFLA Arbitrator
Career
Qualified 1984; Inner Temple
QC 2009
Head of Chambers 2020
Memberships
FLBA
MCIArb
SE Circuit
Education
Pembroke College, Oxford University (BA Jurisprudence); St Dunstan’s College, Catford.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: private FDR judges and arbitrators
(leading Private FDR Judges and Arbitrators)Ranked: Tier 2Christopher Pocock KC– 1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Christopher is a rock-steady tribunal for both arbitrations and private FDRs. He manages proceedings before him with a reassuring calmness, and his judgement is spot-on.’
London Bar > Family: divorce and financial remedy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Christopher Pocock KC –1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Christopher is wonderful with clients. He provides clear and robust advice and is not afraid to ask difficult questions. His advocacy is clear and effective without being pompous. Judges trust and like him.’
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’.