Nicholas Starks
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 1 : Family: Matrimonial Finance
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About
Provided by Nicholas Starks
Practice Areas
Family/Matrimonial
Career
Nicholas has over 30 years' experience in family financial provision (divorce, TLATA, IPFDA, Schedule 1 Children Act and civil partnerships).
His work involves high net worth claims featuring businesses, farming, overseas assets, trusts, pensions and variation of nuptial settlements.
He is head of Chambers’ Family Finance team and was voted ‘Barrister of the Year, 2019’ by Worcestershire Law Society. He sits as a Deputy District Judge in civil and specialist financial remedy cases on the Midlands Circuit and as a private FDR evaluator. He is a member of Lexis Nexis’ panel of experts and is a keen contributor to legal publications and as a CPD speaker on circuit.
Nicholas was commended by the Court of Appeal for his “lucid argument” in Kaur v Matharu [2010] EWCA Civ 930 and appeared in the nationally publicised case of Colborne v Colborne [2014] EWCA Civ 1488. Other reported decisions include LF v DF 2021 EWFC B50.
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Nicholas is a member of the LexisNexis panel of experts for Matrimonial/Finance.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Nicholas Starks is an excellent advocate who largely focuses on multifaceted financial provision cases arising from divorce as well as under TOLATA, Schedule 1 applications and the Civil Partnership Act. He is regularly instructed in disputes of a high-value and complex nature concerning farms, businesses and other kinds of assets. He shows further expertise in nuptial settlements.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Nicholas is quite simply outstanding. He is a leader in his field. He is a superb advocate, impeccably prepared and strategic in his thinking."
"Nick is an outstanding advocate. He is clear, concise and highly articulate."
"His capacity to absorb detail is superb and his advocacy skills are amazing."
"Nicholas is quite simply outstanding. He is a leader in his field. He is a superb advocate, impeccably prepared and strategic in his thinking."
"Nick is an outstanding advocate. He is clear, concise and highly articulate."
"His capacity to absorb detail is superb and his advocacy skills are amazing."
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