Abby Buckland

Abby is a Partner in the Family and Divorce team who undertakes matters involving all aspects of private family law and in particular complex financial issues and private children cases.
 

Abby practices in all aspects of private family law, with particular expertise in cases involving:

• Complex financial disputes often involving trust assets, family wealth or inheritance
• Farming divorces
• Pre and postnuptial agreements
• All issues concerning the arrangements for children, particularly cases involving parental alienation, relocation within or outside of England and Wales and financial provision for children
• International elements including;
  • International relocation (also known as leave to remove)
  • Cross border matrimonial disputes
  • Jurisdiction race

Abby gives clear, sensible advice and takes great care of her clients, working strategically and creatively to achieve the best possible outcome.

Abby is recognised in Chambers UK, Chambers High Net Worth Guide and Legal 500 UK. She was shortlisted as Woman of the Year - Rising Star in the Powerwomen Awards 2020 and is Listed in the 'Recommended' tier in the Spear's 2021 Family Law Index.

Abby has written extensively including for The Sunday Telegraph, Farmer’s Weekly, Farming UK, Wealthbriefing and New Law Journal. She is a member of the Founding Committee for Thought Leaders4 HNWDivorce Next Generation committee and has spoken at and chaired numerous ThoughtLeaders4 events. 

After reading English Literature at The University of Manchester, Abby went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course at The College of Law in Bloomsbury. Abby worked for a magic circle firm in their Mergers and Acquisitions team as a paralegal before commencing her training contract with a Lincoln’s Inn firm in 2008 and qualifying into their Family Team in 2010. Abby joined Kingsley Napley in 2012 and was made partner in 2020. 

What directories say

One of the ‘firm’s many rising stars with exceptional judgement"

Legal 500 UK 2019

I don't worry at all when I've got a client that's with Abby - I know that nothing will be missed"

Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2019

flawless as a lawyer; she has everything. She is terribly appealing to clients in terms of her personal approach - she is soft and understanding, she listens, she is very supportive of vulnerable clients but also writes genius letters and thinks several steps ahead. So completely a star of the future, and the present."

Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2020

She's a class act. She's calm and empathetic, soft when needed for vulnerable clients but tough as anything when she needs to be"

Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2019

"Star in the making" Abby Buckland has a growing presence and reputation in the family law field for her work on complex high net worth financial cases related to divorce, many with an international element."

Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2019

One of the firm’s rising stars – she has warmth, efficiency and exceptional judgement, and clients love her"

Legal 500 UK 2017, The Client's Guide to Law Firms

Particularly noted for her capability in handling cross-border children disputes"

Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession       

Highly regarded for her capacity to handle matrimonial finance cases"

Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession

 

Recent cases

• Daga and Bangur [2018] EWFC 91  - Contested high value finances involving trusts and non-matrimonial assets
• M v F [2018] EWFC 35  - High value Schedule I proceedings, world wide freezing order and enforcement costs provision 

 

publications, Press and speaking engagements

• 20 years forward... 20 years back?, New Law Journal, 18 November 2020
• Family Wealth Matters Vodcast, Artorius, October 2020
• White v White: 20 years on from seminal farming divorce case, Farming UK, October 2020
• "Preserving multi-generational family wealth on death and divorce", LexisNexis Family, July 2020
• ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Russia, FSU & CEE Virtual - Abby took part in a panel discussion around asset recovery in the context of divorce titled "Show me the money!", July 2020
• "Divorce Proofing Wealth Planning" virtual event by ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce - Abby chaired this webinar on 22 April 2020
• Family Law Journal, April 2020: "Secrets and lies" - Abby Buckland examines FRB v DCA [2019], a claim in tort between spouses and its relationship with financial remedy proceedings
• ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce Magazine - Issue 2, April 2020 - "Ways of protecting family wealth on divorce"
• ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce, January 2020  - "Using Arbitration to settle Family Disputes – less Hollywood, more Privacy"
• Farmers Weekly, April 2019 - "How to make a pre-nuptial agreement smooth and secure"
• The Telegraph, January 2019 - "Five ways worried parents can protect their family money from messy divorces"
• KNect365 Farm Tax Conference, July 2018 - Abby spoke with Laura Phillips in Dispute Resolution on "What you need to know about farming divorce"
• Jewish News, April 2014 - "We must free women held hostage in religious marriages"

 

Professional societies/ memberships and awards

• Listed in the 'Recommended' tier in the Spear's 2021 Family Law Index
• The Law Society
• Resolution
• Junior Lawyers Division
• United Kingdom Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists
• Cityparents

 

Further information

Abby was born and brought up in Oxfordshire and she is a trained ChildLine Counsellor. Abby enjoys the theatre and cinema.