Abby Buckland

Abby is a Partner in the Family and Divorce team who specialises in 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:

• 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
• Third party/intervenor cases

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, Legal 500 UK and Spear’s Family Law Index. She was shortlisted as Woman of the Year - Rising Star in the Powerwomen Awards. Abby is listed in the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025. 

Abby is a member of the Founding Committee for Thought Leaders4 HNW Divorce 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 in Bloomsbury. Abby was a paralegal at a magic circle firm in their Mergers and Acquisitions team 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

Abby is an outstanding tactician who makes clients instantly feel like they can breathe and know they are in the safest of hands."

Chambers HNW 2025

Abby Buckland is very professional but she also has a strong awareness of the human side of the business."

Chambers HNW 2025

She is a great lawyer who focuses on what the issues are really quickly and pulls the case together with no delay, always focused on the end result."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Abby was extremely sympathetic to my plight while remaining objective and offering sensible advice for me to achieve the best possible outcome."

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Abby Buckland is tenacious and doesn't pull her punches - she has good judgment and really knows the detail of her cases."

Legal 500, 2025

Abby Buckland is a really impressive lawyer. She gets stuck into the detail, is really reassuring to her clients and is easy to work with."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Abby is an incredible lawyer with sound judgement and compassion."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Abby is just absolutely sensible, the safest pair of hands you could wish for. She is terribly approachable and really comfortable but doesn't shy away from giving clients advice."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

Abby is a really exceptional young partner. She works on some huge, complex cases kept deliberately quiet and has an incredibly sophisticated style with excellent judgement. A complete star of the future."

Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2023

I've always been impressed with Abby; she's absolutely flawless. She is calm under pressure, compassionate and empathetic. She is really tough and has her client's back 100%."
Chambers UK, 2023

Abby is a very good solicitor who is very hard-working and has a great deal of intelligence, as well as emotional intelligence, which she brings to her cases."

Chambers UK, 2023

She is great to work with. She's very organised, strategic and client-focused."

Chambers UK, 2023

 

Recent cases

• Michael v Michael (No 3) [2025] EWFC 245 - Representing Mrs Michael in securing an award of £15m plus costs and maintenance arrears
• Michael v Michael (No 2) [2025] EWFC 244 - Representing Mrs Michael in securing the appointment of Receivers
• Michael v Michael (No 1) [2024] EWFC 463 - Representing Mrs Michael in successfully establishing a finding of sham trust
• WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B) (11 October 2024) - Acted for a wife in proceedings involving contested expert company evidence and an exploration of the Sharing principle and pre-marital cohabitation.
• PS v NB [2023] EWHC 3485 (Fam) - Successfully acting for a wife in high value and complex financial proceedings, in her interim applications for maintenance and historic and ongoing legal fees from the husband.
• CG V DL [2023] EWFC 82 – acted for hedge fund owner in respect of the financial settlement to be made upon his divorce.
• CG v DL [No 2] [2023] EWFC 238 – successful application to recalculate the financial award given in earlier decision of CG v DL [2023] EWFC 82 in light of collapse of our client’s hedge fund in the intervening period.
• 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

• Speaker at the STEP Bermuda Conference: Navigating complexity, building legacy, 16-17 October 2025
• London property investor told to pay ex-wife £15m after hiding fortune - The Telegraph, August 2025
• Speaker at The SIP-BILANZ Health & Longevity Conference 2025 - SIP Medical Family Office, 3 April 2025
• TL4’s Annual  Private Client Jersey, Abby to speak on Trusts and Divorce, 5th October 2023
• Cohabiting Partners: Kingsley Napley comment on WEC letter, CityWealth Magazine, 3 July 2023
• TL4 Enforcing a divorce award - Abby speaking, 30 June 2022
• Cohabiting Partners: Kingsley Napley Respond to WEC Letter, The Divorce Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Cohabitation reform: MPs call on government to rethink responds to landmark report, Today's Family Lawyer, 16 June 2023
• Cohabitees warned as ONS data reveals extent of pandemic plunge in marriages, Today's Family Lawyer, 17 May 2023
• Next Gen TL4 event, Abby co-chaired the event, 23rd March 2023 
• 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 2025 Family Law Index
• The Law Society
• Resolution
• Junior Lawyers Division
• United Kingdom Association of Jewish Lawyers & Jurists
• Cityparents
• Listed as a Citywealth Leader in Family and Matrimonial

 

Further information

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