Forsters LLP

Family

Partner

Ranked as an ‘Up-and-Coming’ Partner in Chambers UK and as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 UK, Dickon is highlighted for his ‘top client care skills as well as his brilliant legal knowledge’, and ‘intellectual firepower’.

Dickon has wide-ranging experience of resolving ‘big money’ financial disputes on divorce and relationship breakdown. He specialises in preparing and negotiating both domestic and international pre and post nuptial and cohabitation agreements. He is renowned for his knowledge of parental rights and obligations, and private child law matters, including child abduction, internal and international child relocation and surrogacy. His cases often involve complex assets and multiple jurisdictions.

He ‘is very astute’ and ‘exudes reassurance’, providing first class support to clients. Dickon works hard to get to know people and to understand their priorities in order to achieve their desired outcome. He is known for taking a firm but fair, pragmatic, and constructive approach to resolving issues. Having represented numerous high-profile clients, he is acutely aware of the importance of discretion.

Dickon is a member of Forsters’ US/UK and sports law groups.

The Law Society

Resolution

Dickon read Politics and Modern History at the University of Manchester. He won the Oxford University Press prize for finishing top of the year when completing the Graduate Diploma in Law.