Harcourt Chambers

Head of Chambers: Nicholas Goodwin QC

Chambers Director: Simon Boutwood

Practice Managers: Judith Partington and Matt Molloy

Tenants: 69

The Chambers Harcourt Chambers is one of the leading specialist family law sets in the country. It is recommended for its expertise in both children law and family finance.

Based in the Temple and at Oxford, it is home to seven well-known family silks; Nick Goodwin KC, John Vater KC, Karl Rowley KC (Door Tenant), Julia Cheetham KC (Door Tenant), Aidan Vine KC, Edward Devereux KC, Jonathan Sampson KC and 66 junior barristers, many of whom are acknowledged as leading practitioners in their fields.

Over the past decade, Harcourt Chambers has established itself as one of the very top ‘across the range’ family law sets and won ‘Family Set of the Year’ at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2016 and ‘Family Law Chambers of the year – London’ at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2018.

It has grown significantly in size and prominence and its members are regularly to be found in high profile and leading cases at first instance, appellate level and in the Supreme Court. Harcourt Chambers is particularly known for the high quality of its advocacy, advice and client care and for its modern and approachable style.

Chambers’ highly regarded family finance practitioners undertake the full range of matrimonial, cohabitee and partnership litigation and have extensive expertise in cases of high value including those where complex issues involving pensions, private companies, farms and overseas assets exist.

Its reputation in the field of children law is well-established and widely recognised in both private and public law. In private law, Harcourt Chambers has renowned expertise in all forms of parental dispute including international relocation and child abduction. Its public law work encompasses care, placement and adoption proceedings, often involving the most complex and severe cases of physical and sexual abuse.