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Camellia Buckmaster

Work Department

Family

Position

Camellia is a senior associate in the Family department.

Camellia specialises in ultra/high net worth cases and advises on the full range of matrimonial finance work including pre and post-nuptial agreements, Schedule 1 cases (financial provision for the benefit of a child of unmarried parents), jurisdictional disputes and complex financial claims upon divorce.

She also advises on all aspects of private children law including cases with complex and contentious contact arrangements with jurisdictional or harm factors in play and relocation applications.

Her practice covers co-habitation and separation agreements, Non-Molestation and Occupation Orders and her cases often involve an international element and/or complex trust structures.

Case Highlights

• Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 6

• WX v HX & NX and LX [2021] EWHC 241

• Potanina v Potanin [2021] EWCA Civ 702

• Potanin v Potanina [2019] EWHC 2956

• M (Children) (Non-Hague Convention State) [2020] EWCA Civ 277

Awards/Rankings

Ranked – As an associate to watch in Chambers and Partners 2022 (Family/Matrimonial: High Net Worth) and 2023 (Family/Matrimonial: Ultra High Net Worth) 

Shortlisted – Family Lawyer of the Year, Senior/Managing Associate – Citywealth Future Leaders 2023 

Shortlisted – Family Lawyer of the Year, Senior/Managing Associate – Citywealth Future Leaders 2020

Future Leaders Top 100 – Citywealth Future Leaders 2020

Career

Camellia trained at Slaughter and May qualifying in 2014.  She joined Payne Hicks Beach in 2016 and was promoted to senior associate in 2018.

Education

Durham University –  Camellia read Philosophy and Theology at Durham University and was awarded a Norton Prize for outstanding academic performance by St Cuthbert’s Society.

BPP Law School – Camellia converted to law at BPP Law School achieving Distinction in the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course.