Simon Sugar

Practice Areas

Simon primarily practises in disputes about the financial consequences of divorce, separation or death. He also drafts nuptial agreements, mediates, sits as a private FDR judge and acts for claimants and on behalf of insurers in professional negligence claims in a family law context.

Career

Simon spent his early years at the Bar as a chancery practitioner and is consequently at home dealing with complex financial remedy claims involving companies, business assets, farms and trusts, TOLATA claims in respect of cohabiting couples and Inheritance Act claims. Cases of interest include P v Q (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC B9, Landsberg v Minkin [2015] EWCA Civ 152, Mansfield v Mansfield [2017].

Professional Memberships

FLBA, Chancery Bar, Public Access Bar

Resolution – member of Cohabitation Committee

Civil (CEDR) and family qualified mediator

Publications

Unlocking Matrimonial Assets on Divorce (co-author)

Applications under Schedule 1 to the Children Act (contributor)

DIY Divorce and Separation (contributor)

Mediation Section – Butterworth’s Civil Court Precedents (editor)

Finance Case Digests for The Review

Lectured at Warwick University as part of their Family Law module