Janine McGuigan
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 4 : Family: Matrimonial Finance
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Band 4
About
Provided by Janine McGuigan
Practice Areas
Janine is a rapidly rising junior whose busy practice encompasses all aspects of private family law with a particular focus on the financial consequences of divorce and Schedule 1 claims. She is regularly instructed in, and has a particular interest in, cases with a foreign/international element and complex financial arrangements (including company, trust, tax and pension issues).
Janine also has a busy private children practice and has appeared in the High Court in matters concerning child abduction.
Janine is led by silks from both QEB and other sets in high net worth financial remedy claims, and also appears against silks and senior juniors without a leader.
Seminars
Janine delivers numerous lectures and seminars to the legal profession. In recent years this has included being invited to:
deliver in-house seminars to leading firms of solicitors
deliver training to the judiciary on Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial property at the Judicial College
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Gray’s Inn
Personal
Janine is a classically trained Soprano and a performance-arts enthusiast. She can still, on occasion, be spotted performing locally in London when time allows.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Janine McGuigan is very active in the family law space with a particular focus on matrimonial finance matters. She has impressive credentials for acting in international matters, with experience in offshore issues too. High net worth clients frequently seek her out for representation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She's got a great eye for detail and really good judgement."
"Janine has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law."
"Nothing phases her. She's probably one of the hardest working members of the family bar."
"She's got a great eye for detail and really good judgement."
"Janine has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law."
"Nothing phases her. She's probably one of the hardest working members of the family bar."