Deborah Eaton KC

Practice Areas

Deborah is highly successful and enjoys an excellent reputation nationally and internationally as a pre-eminent authority in children law. Her expertise in this area includes internal and external relocation, parental alienation, substance abuse, mental health and education issues. She is also extremely well respected in the matrimonial finance and enforcement field offering tremendous experience in ancillary relief cases, prenuptial agreements and applications pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989. For many years she has handled some of the most significant, far-reaching and complex cases in the field of family law for both UHNW and high-profile clients. Almost all her work has an international dimension.

In addition to being technically challenging, Deborah’s cases are often strategically and tactically complex, and require a highly sensitive, skilful and nuanced approach. She is naturally able to make an outstanding contribution in all these areas.

Career

Awards and Scholarships

- Horace Avery Scholarship Inner Temple

- Benefactors Scholarship Inner Temple

- Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship Inner Temple

- Elizabeth Nuffield Foundation Scholarship

Education

- BSc (Hons) Psychology & Anthropology

- Dip Law

Professional Memberships

FLBA

Deputy High Court Judge [2011]

Recorder [Crime, Private Law Children and Public Law Children] 2004

Master of the Bench Inner Temple

Fellow of the International Family Law Association

Midland Circuit

Publications

General Editor and Author ‘Encyclopaedia of Financial Provision in Family Matters’ Wildblood and Eaton (Sweet & Maxwell 1998).