She is highly ranked in Chambers UK and The Legal 500 guide and has an enviable reputation for being a fierce advocate with an incredible eye for detail and lateral thinking while keeping in mind the bigger picture.
In financial resolution cases following divorce or civil partnership dissolution she has extensive experience of resolving cases involving family businesses, companies, trusts, farms, pension assets and third-party claims on family assets. She enjoys the forensic challenge of tracing hidden resources and is highly effective in cross examination.
However, she is keen to avoid litigation and negotiate a pragmatic solution to a case where possible and regularly achieves settlements with which her clients are very satisfied.
Jacqueline also has wide experience of financial disputes between unmarried partners including under Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act and Schedule 1 of the Children Act.
Recent cases include:
- Acting for a wife where the husband is alleged to be colluding with his business partner to artificially deflate the value of a multi-million-pound company.
- Representing a husband where a vulnerable wife is failing to co-operate with implementing an order.
- Acting for a husband where the wife alleges that a property worth around £1.3m held in the name of the husband’s daughter is in fact beneficially owned by him.
- Advising an elderly husband beneficiary of an offshore discretionary trust who lost capacity during the currency of financial remedy proceedings.
- Acting for a wife seeking third party disclosure orders against multiple banks to prove dishonesty by husband and his father in respect of a property and a business, subsequently achieving a negotiated settlement and enforcing the final order against the unco-operative husband.
- Representing a husband convicted of serious sexual offences against a minor in a financial remedy case where his conduct was a live issue.
Jacqueline is an experienced and accredited Mediator and also represents parties in mediations, arbitrations, round table settlement meetings and private FDRs. Find out more here.
Jacqueline also has expertise in the specialist area of ecclesiastical law of the Church of England. She is the Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, appointed on 1 July 2024 and the Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester, appointed in December 2020. A Chancellor is the independent judge who determines faculty applications – a jurisdiction similar to Listed Building Consent but for churches, churchyards and other consecrated ground. Find out more here.
She has completed vulnerable witness training with the FLBA.
She is a trustee of two regional charities, one a large conservation and education charity and the other a small performing arts charity.
