Lauren Lanson
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 4 : Family: Matrimonial Finance
Band 4
About
Provided by Lauren Lanson
Practice Areas
Lauren practices exclusively in family finance work, covering all areas of matrimonial finance and applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act.
Lauren specialises in complex matters, often dealing with high-profile and high net-worth clients who require persuasive and robust representation alongside discrete handling of their cases.
Lauren has significant experience of dealing with cases involving thorny factual or legal issues, such as non-disclosure, company or trust involvement, faming disputes or those with an international element. She is regularly instructed in variation applications or those made under Part III
Notable cases
Represented Wife in a long standing enforcement application involving Trusts where Husband was overseas. O’Donnell v O’Donnell [2022] EWFC 68
Successfully defended against the Husband’s claims against the heiress Wife’s assets running to c£113m, limiting to modest needs only.
Arbitration representing Wife in a multi £million farming partnership.
Career
Call 2006, Middle Temple
Professional Memberships
FLBA, Resolution
Personal
Sheffield University Law LLB, BBP Law School BVC
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Lauren Lanson is a specialist family finance barrister. Her expertise extends to TOLATA work, schedule 1 proceedings and Children Act applications. She is frequently involved in cases involving trusts, companies and pension arrangements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lauren is quietly confident and transmits that confidence to the client immediately. She is tenacious and fiercely protective of her clients."
"Lauren is agile and unfazed by complex and novel cases or points."
"She is tactically very brilliant and always looking at a way to get round points and win cases."
"Lauren is quietly confident and transmits that confidence to the client immediately. She is tenacious and fiercely protective of her clients."
"Lauren is agile and unfazed by complex and novel cases or points."
"She is tactically very brilliant and always looking at a way to get round points and win cases."