.svg){kind=small}
Katharine is a partner in the divorce and family team.
Dynamic and creative, Katharine brings huge energy and commitment to achieving positive progress for her clients in some of the most complex and hard-fought cases.
Katharine combines warmth, empathy, and insight with intellectual agility and pragmatism. Whilst she has a string of reported cases to her name, Katharine is a talented negotiator, working to diffuse and resolve conflict. She is adept at navigating her clients to settlements out of court, away from media glare, and collaborating to bring about an agreed outcome.
Katharine has a track record of handling the most financially and emotionally complex cases, particularly those with an international dimension, involving privately held businesses, multi-generational wealth, private equity interests and other sophisticated asset structures.
She advises on high value finance matters and nuptial agreements acting for the financially stronger as well as the financially weaker party. In her children practice, she deals with international relocations and abductions, and child arrangements involving serious allegations of harm including domestic abuse, sexual abuse, substance and alcohol misuse, alienating behaviours, coercive control, physical violence, and personality disorders.
Her reported cases over a career spanning more than two decades include Charman v Charman, Vaughan v Vaughan, Christoforou v Christoforou, X v X and Rosemin-Culligan v Culligan. She is top ranked in all of the legal directories.
Katharine is a qualified Children Arbitrator with the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Recent recognition
.jpg?lang=en-GB&ext=.jpg)
Me in a minute
I am a strong believer in the power of good communication
I am a strong believer in the power of good communication. A good lawyer needs to be able to deliver a message effectively. Communication is key to my relationships with my clients and other professionals. It enables me to deliver advice that makes sense and to achieve solutions that meet my clients' objectives.
Communication being such a passion of mine, I was delighted last year to be appointed to the board of trustees of the charity "One Plus One". One Plus One aims to strengthen relationships by creating resources to help families and front line workers tackle relationship issues early on. Based on the latest research evidence, their work promotes early action in relationship support. They equip people with the skills and knowledge to work on relationship issues before they become entrenched. They also provide support for couples who are separating. Being involved with a charity concerned wholly with supporting relationships has given me a brand new perspective. Looking at relationships from the other end of the telescope not only helps me to think about how I do my job but enables me to use some of my experience to help One Plus One do theirs.