Stacey Nevin

Stacey is a Partner in the family team. She advises UK and international clients on matters involving all aspects of family law, in particular complex financial issues and private children cases.  Stacey is also a mediator and works with couples to help them resolve practical and legal issues arising from their separation without the need to attend court.
 

Stacey is named as an Associate to Watch in Chambers and Partners High Net Worth 2022 and a Rising Star in the Legal 500 2023. She is also listed as Recommended in the Spears Family Law Index 2025. She was shortlisted as Associate of the Year in the Family Awards 2020.  Stacey has a breadth of experience in advising clients on cross border issues, and has spoken at several conferences about the impact of Brexit on family law matters.  She was a member of the historical Brexit Working Party to the Resolution International Committee and Property, Tax and Pensions Committee, a group of lawyers formed to consider the impact Brexit will have on family legislation in England & Wales.  In 2022 she was the runner up for the International Academy of Family Lawyers’ Young Lawyer’s Award.  She works closely with Kingsley Napley’s immigration team to support clients where family and immigration issues need to be considered in tandem.

Stacey takes a holistic approach to her cases, and frequently works with other experts such as therapists, coaches and financial experts to ensure clients have the support they need.  Her goal is to achieve the best outcome for the client to ensure they can move forward with their lives in a positive manner.

As a mediator Stacey is named as a Next Generation in The Legal 500 2023.  She takes a compassionate approach to her cases, and frequently works with other experts in a collaborative manner (for example IFAs, accountants, therapists and solicitors) as part of the mediation process where this is beneficial to the clients. 

Stacey has particular expertise in advising on:

• international family issues and cross border disputes, including jurisdiction disputes and/or proceedings in multiple countries
• complex financial issues (including cases with trust arrangements) 
• private children cases, including child relocation, intractable contact disputes and cases involving allegations of parental alienation
• nuptial agreements

After reading law at the University of Sussex, Stacey completed the Legal Practice Course at BPP London with distinction. She joined Kingsley Napley in 2016 and was promoted to Partner in 2023.

In her spare time Stacey enjoys walking her lurcher, Charlie and Norman, and watching various sport, including rugby, tennis and hockey. 

What Clients and Directories say

Stacey Nevin was very supportive of her client. She had a good grasp of the detail of the case and was able to advise her client to agree to a realistic and achievable outcome."
Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2025

Stacey Nevin is an excellent mediator. She has the ability to read the room incredibly well and sense when to push on a mediation or when to take a break. She does not play the advantage and is always fair."

Legal 500, 2025

Stacey Nevin engages in mediation in high-tension and difficult cases. The work produced is thorough and pragmatic, and the feedback from my client is very positive."

Legal 500, 2025

Stacey is very up-and-coming, and impressive in handling the client very confidently."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Stacey is evidently hugely bright and on the beat with the developments of the law. She is involved with the family law world and is definitely a star of the future."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Stacey is really solid, really good and a bright spark. She gets very good quality work."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Stacey is a really bright star of the future. She's exceptionally numerate and has great judgement."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2023

She is really unbelievable. She's all over the detail, she's really intelligent and just so great with clients."

Chambers UK, 2023

Superb with clients and is great to deal with."
Chambers UK, 2023

She has wisdom beyond her years and can manage complex cases."
Chambers UK, 2023

She's a really good lawyer, has a genuine interest in the academic side of the law and she is fantastic with clients."
Chambers UK, 2023

Recent cases

Recent work includes:

• MA v Roux [2024] EWHC 1917 (Fam) - considering the correct test to be used for strike out applications (in the context of an application to set aside a financial remedies order)
• HH v UH [2023] EWHC 3490 (Fam) - father's application for the summary return of the children to the UAE 
• A v B [2023] EWFC 241 (B) - acting for the respondent husband in Part III proceedings following divorce proceedings in New Zealand, securing an outcome in line with the husband's proposal
• RC v JC [2020] EWHC 466 (Fam) - represented the wife in her successful claim for compensation for relationship generated disadvantage
• De Gafforj [2018] EWCA Civ 2070 - Interlocutory application in the Court of Appeal, successfully obtaining a “Hadkinson Order” to immediately dismiss the husband’s appeal against an Order that England & Wales has jurisdiction in the event he failed to purge his contempt of a previous court order within 14 days, and to lift the stay on the wife’s Petition for Divorce in England & Wales
• Arbili v Arbili [2015] EWCA Civ 542 
• UL v BK [2013] EWHC 1735 (Fam)
• Acting for an Iraqi business man in contested financial remedy proceedings involving a Jersey Trust, an extensive property portfolio and valuable business assets
• Representing a mother in her successful application seeking permission to relocate permanently to the USA with the parties’ child, resolving the financial matters in tandem.  Agreement on both was reached at a successful round table meeting, settling the court proceedings on both matters.
• Providing expert legal opinion for use in Canadian court proceedings.
• Providing written legal advice to Trustees on the treatment of trust assets on divorce, in contemplation of a new settlement.
• Acting for a wife in committal proceedings against her husband for non-payment of maintenance
• General family law, including divorce proceedings, cohabitation agreements, pre-nuptial agreements, non-molestation orders and injunction proceedings

Publications, press and speaking engagements

• Britain's biggest divorces: The largest settlements ever in UK courts include £554m awarded to Princess Haya in split from ruler of Dubai, to Kirsty Bertarelli's £400m payout from Swiss business tycoon - Daily Mail Online, April 2025
• What are the benefits of family mediation in divorce? - FT Adviser, Jan 2023
• Everything you need to know about family mediation process - The Divorce Magazine, January 2024
• Navigating Divorce: Tools for Success - Divorce Magazine Webinar, January 2024
• I'm a divorce mediator - this is what it's really like to work with separating couple, The Stylist, July 2023 (subscription required)
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2022 - Author of chapter on Divorce post-Brexit: A New Frontier for Intra-EU/UK Divorces, book edited by head of Family department Charlotte Bradley
• Stacey spoke at the Brexit and Family Law Conference II organised by the Family Layers Association of Ireland in December 2021.
• UK same-sex unions to face hurdles in some EU countries from 2021 - Europe Street News, November 2020
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2021 - Co -author of chapter on England and Wales,  book edited by head of Family department Charlotte Bradley
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2021 - Author of chapter on Brexit and Family Law, book edited by head of Family department Charlotte Bradley
• "High earners and sacrificed careers", New Law Journal, June 2020 (subscription required)
• Stacey co-presented with Jane Keir and Lucy Stone QC at the ThoughtLeaders4 webinar in May 2020 on "Compensation Claims on Divorce – how exceptional do they have to be"
• Divorcing professionals count cost of lost career (subscription required), Accountancy Daily, May 2020
• Stacey spoke about Brexit and family law from an English perspective at the Brexit and Family Law Conference organised by Family Lawyers Association of Ireland in February 2020
• International Comparative Legal Guide to: Family Law 2019 - co-author of chapter on Brexit and Family Law
• Mills v Mills resolved, at last, quoted in Spear's, July 2018
• Common sense restored, say lawyers, quoted in The Times, July 2018
• Husband wins Supreme Court appeal against order to pay all wife’s rental costs,  quoted in Family Law Week, July 2018
• Landmark court ruling finds against ex-wife who sought higher maintenance payments, quoted in The Telegraph, July 2018
• Stacey presented at the “Brexit should I stay or should I go” conference in March 2018 with colleagues from the immigration department – “Status of EU citizens in the UK: what you need to know, what you need to do.”
• Parental alienation and intractable contact disputes – when all seems lost, Family Law, January 2018
• Parental Alienation - The example we should all learn from, Divorce Magazine, November 2017
• Brexit and relocating with children overseas – mind the immigration and family law gaps, Law Society Gazette, August 2017

Professional societies and memberships

• Stacey is a member of Resolution
• Listed as a Citywealth Leader in Family and Matrimonial