Katherine Dunseath

Katherine is a leading junior barrister specialising in both complicated high net worth financial matters and private children cases.

She has particular expertise in matters involving difficult novel points of law at both domestic and international level with particular interest in:

• International financial remedy, enforcement and issues of jurisdiction
• Advising on domestic and international maintenance, including variation and enforcement
• Legal costs funding orders and LSPO applications in cases involving sophisticated international assets
• Complex business structures (both domestic and international)
• Complicated children matters with an international dimension.

Cases of note include: 

• F v M [2025] EWFC 225 (B)
• FB v KS [2025] EWHC 827 (Fam)
• RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155
• Des Pallieres v Des Pallieres [2021] 4 WLR 96 (Court of Appeal)
• DP v DP [2020] EWHC 3188 (Fam) (High Court)
• M v P (the Queen’s Proctor Intervening) [2019] 2 FLR 813
• Mills v Mills [2018] 4 All ER 612 [2018] UKSC 38
• Mills v Mills [2017] EWCA Civ 129
• Re L and B (Children) (Specific Issues: Temporary Leave to Remove from the Jurisdiction; Circumcision) [2017] 1 FLR 1349
• In the Matter of X, Y and Z (Children) (Retrospective Leave to Remove from the Jurisdiction) [2016] EWHC 2439 (Fam)
• LM and DR (Return to Non-Convention Country) [2016] EWHC 1943 (Fam)
• In the Matter of JL and AO (Babies Relinquished for Adoption) [2016] 4 WLR 40; [2017] 1 FLR 1545
• Guerroudj v Rymarczyk [2016] 1 FLR 1349

She was shortlisted for: 

Junior Pro Bono Barrister of the Year (Bar Pro Bono Awards 2019) 

Junior Barrister of the Year (Family Law Awards 2017) 

Year of Call: 2008

Judicial Assistant, Court of Appeal (March – July 2008) 

Blue Book Stagiaire, European Commission (October 2007- February 2008) 

Stage Scholar and Prince of Wales Scholar, Gray’s Inn 

Year of Call: 2008 

Family Law Bar Association Association of Lawyers for Children Child Abduction Lawyers Association Free Representation Unit