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Rosemary Budden

020 7797 7837 r.budden@qeb.co.uk

Position

Rosemary practises exclusively in family law, specialising in all types of financial claims and private law children work. She is instructed to appear before all levels of tribunal up to and including the Court of Appeal, both on her own and as junior to leading Counsel.  Rosemary acts for a wide range of clients in particular high net-worth clients with complex financial arrangements. Rosemary brings an intelligent, strategic and extremely personable approach to her cases.

Since 2012, Rosemary has been consistently recommended as a leading junior in the Legal 500 and since 2013 in Chambers and Partners.  The directories describe her:

• “She was phenomenal when dealing with one of the most challenging clients I have ever had. She gave frank advice and kept the client on board.” Chambers & Partners 2016
• “a strong reputation for dealing with international cases…adept at both financial & private law children cases” Chambers & Partners 2015
• “a very good advocate” Legal 500 2014
• “regularly sought after to advise high net worth clients with complex financial arrangements”  Chambers & Partners 2014
• “extremely pleasant, but feisty and effective once in court.”  Chambers & Partners 2013
• “a tenacious advocate” Legal 500 2012
• “she is extremely sensitive towards the client in very difficult cases” Legal 500 2017

Interesting cases include: Fields v Fields [2015] EWHC 1670 (Fam);  Schofield v Schofield [2011] 1 FLR 2129, CA

Career

Called 2003; Lincoln’s Inn; has been a tenant at Queen Elizabeth Building since the successful completion of her pupillage. Edited ‘Durable Solutions – The Collected Papers of the 2005 Dartington Hall Conference’ with Lord Justice Thorpe (Jordans, 2006).

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association
Bar Pro Bono Unit
Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship
Affiliate member of Resolutionamily Law Bar Association; secretary to the QEB pupillage committee.

Education

St Hilda’s College, Oxford (Law); awarded a Hardwicke scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn.

Leisure

Rosemary is married with two small children.  She enjoys cycling & has a love-hate relationship with running.  She enjoys music & musical theatre.ning (including running the London Marathon in 2006 and various half-marathons since), theatre, salsa dancing and music.