Fiona Hay

Practice Areas

Family Finance

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Direct Access

Career

Fiona focuses exclusively on financial remedy cases where she applies her widely recognised financial expertise to secure practical solutions for her clients, particularly in cases featuring disputes over pension entitlements. Her approach balances empathy and support for her clients with robust and skilful advocacy.

Fiona has a strong interest in Alternative Dispute Resolution. She is an experienced Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR) advocate and her calm, pragmatic approach has earned plaudits. Fiona also sits as a judge in Private FDRs – a mechanism that she strongly favours for its effectiveness in delivering workable agreements with minimal distress to the parties involved.

Since January 2013, she has been authorised to sit in the High Court, pursuant to s9 Senior Courts Act 1981 and she has been a Recorder on the Midland Circuit since 2009.

Fiona lectures for Jordan’s Family Law on issues relating to pensions and divorce.

Professional Memberships

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Pensions Advisory Group

BSc Chemistry and Law, Exon

BA Law Exon

Publications

Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook, the leading textbook on pensions and divorce, published by Sweet and Maxwell, 2018.

A Guide to the Treatment of Pensions on Divorce –The report of the Pension Advisory Group –Fiona is a committee member of the Pension Advisory Group and a co-author of the report

Pensions and Equality [2007] Family Law 310.

Pension on Divorce–Practical Law, Thomson Reuters

Pensions on Divorce –Westlaw

Capitalising periodical payments; lump sum or pension share?–Sweet and Maxwell White Paper 2013