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Legal 500
"This large outfit is remarkable for its combination of substantial child and matrimonial finance expertise under one roof."
Chambers & Partners
Richard Harrison
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Call: 1993
'. . turns the heads of solicitors as he can "get on top of a hell of a lot of paper in a very short space of time". He is " one of the better counsel for dealing with a mix of children and finance in the same case," and is being seen in increasingly big cases.' Chambers & Partners
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Richard Harrison is a specialist family lawyer with particular expertise in matrimonial finance and international child abduction.
Richard Harrison is recommended as a leading junior in both the Chambers & Partners Directory (finance and children) and The Legal 500.
Richard Harrison specialises in complex financial cases including those involving offshore trusts and difficult issues of enforcement. He has appeared in the Mubarak litigation which has generated seven reported authorities on different aspects of enforcement. He also deals with cohabitees’ property disputes and applications under schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.
Richard Harrison has been involved in some of the leading child abduction cases in recent years. He recently acted for the successful appellant in the landmark House of Lords decision in Re D (A child) [2006] UKHL 51.
Richard Harrison also specialises in cases involving international forum disputes under Council Regulation (EC) 2201/2003, the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 and the Family Law Act 1986. He appeared in Re D (Stay of Children Act proceedings) [2003] 2 FLR 1159.
Richard Harrison also has expertise in relation to a broad range of private law children issues. He appeared in the House of Lords decision in Dawson v Wearmouth [1999] 2 AC 308, the leading authority on change of surname.
Richard Harrison is a Consultant Editor of Hershman and McFarlane Children Law and Practice. He has contributed articles to Family Law Week. In 2007 he has lectured on both child abduction and matrimonial finance.
Richard Harrison is bilingual in Spanish and fluent in French. He is a member of the Family Law Bar Association and Lawyers for Liberty.
