Andrzej Bojarski KC

Practice Areas

Barrister (King’s Counsel) specialising in family work. Head of family finance law at 36 Family and door tenant at Broadway House Chambers, Leeds. Also a prominent arbitrator, neutral evaluator and mediator. Practice specialised in financial relief, including financial aspects of relationship breakdown outside marriage, such as trusts of land claims, and also general property law and inheritance disputes. Many substantial asset ancillary relief cases undertaken, including businesses, trusts and farming cases. Also instructed in proceedings involving intervening parties in relation to companies, trusts and complex property arrangements, and recognised as a specialist in cryptocurrencies. Frequently instructed by solicitors where the case has some unusual or complex features requiring thorough scrutiny and legal argument. Author of a well-regarded textbook on ancillary relief practice, and regularly lectures on the topic in England and outside the jurisdiction. Andrzej is also the consulting editor to Halsbury’s Laws of England 6th edition (Matrimonial and Civil Partnership volumes).

Career

Called 1995; Gray’s Inn. Appointment to Silk as King’s Counsel in 2024.

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Midland Circuit. Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.

Publications

Publications: Consulting editor to Halsbury’s Laws of England 6th edition (Matrimonial and Civil Partnership volumes) ‘Unlocking Matrimonial Assets on Divorce’, Andrzej Bojarski (Jordans, 2012); ‘Proceeds of Crime Act 2002: A Practical Guide’, Gumpert, Kirk & Bojarski (Jordans, 2002); Contributor to ‘Mercantile Courts Litigation Guide’, edited by Richard Wilson QC (Jordans, 2004).

Personal

London School of Economics (LLB); Inns of Court School of Law (Gray’s Inn Holker Scholar).

Industry Sector Expertise

Barrister (King’s Counsel) specialising in family work.

Prominent arbitrator, neutral evaluator and mediator.

Work Highlights

Unger v Ul Hasan [2023] UKSC 22. Seminal Supreme Court decision on whether unadjudicated matrimonial claims survive the death of a party.

Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 15 and [2023] EWFC 136. Successful repudiation of a wife’s claim that a husband had undisclosed assets of over $30 million.

Joseph v Grandison [2019] EWHC 977 (Fam). Successful enforcement of a ‘best endeavours’ injunction.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Most of Andrzej’s cases involve an international dimension and he has extensive experience of jurisdictional disputes and the tracing or assets and enforcement of orders across international borders. He is also regularly approached to offer advice on English law to lawyers overseas.

Experience

Finance - Andrzej is highly rated as one of the most knowledgeable and skilled lawyers in the field of family finance, dealing with cases where the parties were married and are divorcing, and in disputes between unmarried couples or resulting from other family relationship breakdowns.

He is routinely instructed in the most difficult cases and has particular experience of trusts and complex business structures, usually with a multi-jurisdictional and international dimension. He is also well-known for his experience of and expertise in cases involving crypto-assets and FinTech, business and corporate governance issues in the midst of relationship breakdown, and property disputes involving families, including in relation to the estates of the deceased.

While he was still a junior barrister the influential Chambers & Partners Bar rankings listed Andrzej as one of only four “Star Individuals” in Matrimonial Finance work in London.

ADR - Andrzej has been a family law arbitrator since 2012 and has been acting as a neutral evaluator in private FDRs since 2017. He has conducted in excess of 200 arbitrations and private FDRs with many clients regarding him as the ‘go to’ tribunal in difficult cases. The Legal 500 says “Andrzej brings his advocacy skills to the private judging sphere. He is thorough, empathetic and kind, hugely intelligent, and probably thinking five steps ahead of the advocates in front of him on every case, hard-working and keen to find/broker settlement. He is fully resolution-focused and will leave no stone unturned in trying to get a couple to that end.”