29 Bedford Row Chambers is home to a number of qualified arbitrators, ‘brilliant advocates and FDR judges’, and practitioners who sit in high-profile and high-value matrimonial finance cases. Alexis Campbell KC exclusively handles financial remedy claims, and she is noted for her expertise in both domestic and international mandates. Another key silk at the set is Deputy High Court Judge, qualified arbitrator, and ‘top-class evaluator’ Nicholas Allen KC, whose practice also heavily leans towards high-value financial remedy cases. The ‘thoroughly prepared’ Peter Mitchell KC is another key name at the set with expertise in all matters surrounding pre and post-nuptial agreements, as well as matters with jurisdictional queries. Turning to the juniors at the set, Lucy Owens is ‘excellent with clients’ and increasingly active in PFDRs and arbitrations, while mediator and arbitrator Ben Fearnley is lauded as ‘incredibly intelligent’, and has a broad ranging practice that encompasses civil partnership dissolutions, divorce, and the parting of couples who are unmarried.
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Alexis is joint Head of Chambers and a specialist in HNW matrimonial finance (children and spouses). She is particularly well-regarded for pragmatic negotiation and where that fails, unflinching litigation.

Notable cases include Re C (A Child) (Financial Provision) [2024] EWFC 115; DH v RH (No.4) (Costs) [2024] EWFC 114; DH v RH [2024] EWFC 79; DH v RH [2023] EWFC 210;  Horohoe v Horohoe [2020] EWFC 102; Re Z (Schedule 1) X v Y [2020] EWFC 80; Villiers v Villiers [2020] UK.SC 30;  Re V [2016] EWHC 668;  JL v SL (No 1, 2 &3) [2014/2015] EWHC 3658; AS v JS &Others [2013] EWHC 1699 (Fam); Sharma v Sharma [2012] EWHC 2529 (Fam); Laing v Laing [2007] 2 FLR 199; Martin-Dye v Martin-Dye [2006] 2 FLR901.

Career

Leeds University(LLB Hon). Called to the Bar 1990. Recorder 2010 (Crime I Family (public and private law). Silk 2017. IFLA Arbitrator 2018.

Memberships

FLBA; IAFL (Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers).

Education

Leeds University (LLB Hon); Bar School (1990).

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