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Deborah Eaton KC
Work Department
Private Law Children
Finance
Position
Deborah is highly successful and enjoys an excellent reputation nationally and internationally as a pre-eminent authority in children law. Her expertise in this area includes internal and external relocation, parental alienation, substance abuse, mental health and education issues. She is also extremely well respected in the matrimonial finance and enforcement field offering tremendous experience in ancillary relief cases, prenuptial agreements and applications pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989. For many years she has handled some of the most significant, far-reaching and complex cases in the field of family law for both UHNW and high-profile clients. Almost all her work has an international dimension.
In addition to being technically challenging, Deborah’s cases are often strategically and tactically complex, and require a highly sensitive, skillful and nuanced approach. She is naturally able to make an outstanding contribution in all these areas.
Career
Qualified 1985, Inner Temple; general editor and author ‘Encyclopaedia of Financial Provision in Family Matters’ Wildblood and Eaton (Sweet & Maxwell 1998).
Memberships
FLBA
Deputy High Court Judge [2011]
Recorder [Crime, Private Law Children and Public Law Children] 2004
Master of the Bench Inner Temple
Fellow of the International Family Law Association
Midland Circuit
Education
Keele University (BSc Sc); City University (Dip Law).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: divorce and financial remedy
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Deborah Eaton KC –1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Deborah is a true powerhouse. She has a determination to achieve the client’s goals, robust, determined, knowledgeable, and a formidable advocate.’
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Deborah Eaton KC –1 King’s Bench Walk ‘Deborah is an absolute powerhouse of authority, knowledge, tactical and strategical brilliance and a rock of reassurance for her clients. Her tactical and strategic positioning of her client’s cases to win is spot-on and unrivalled.’
1 King’s Bench Walk is a set with ‘experienced KCs and excellent junior barristers who specialise in all areas of family work’. Deborah Eaton KC is a ‘highly intelligent and pragmatic advocate’ who regularly represents high-profile clients in complex cases. Richard Harrison KC is known for his ‘measured and insightful advice’ and successfully represented a father seeking an order for the return of his child to Ukraine in Re R (A Child). ‘Fierce and determined advocate’ Caroline Lister specialises in cases related to parental responsibility and surrogacy, while rising star Victoria Halsall has extensive experience of representing vulnerable clients and is described as someone who ‘goes above and beyond and is always thoroughly prepared’.