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Henrietta Boyle
Rising Star – Legal 500 Uk 2025

Henrietta Boyle

Call: 2019

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“Henrietta is a real star. She is composed and fearless in her approach and goes above and beyond.” – Legal 500 2025

Family Law Young Barrister of the Year finalist, LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2023

Family Law Young Barrister of the Year runner-up, LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2022

Expertise:

  • Financial Remedies, Financial claims for children (Schedule 1), Private Law Children, International Child Abduction

Services:

  • Advice and Representation, Private FDR Evaluators

Practice

Henrietta was the Family Law Young Barrister of the Year runner-up at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2022, and was shortlisted as a finalist for the same award again in 2023.

Henrietta accepts instructions in all areas of private family law. She appears regularly in the High Court both in financial remedy cases and in international child abduction cases, as sole counsel (e.g. UG v NN [2022] EWHC 8 (Fam)) and also as a junior to other members of chambers (e.g. Horohoe v Horohoe [2020] EWFC 102, CG v DL [2023] EWFC 82). As well as representing clients in court, Henrietta is often instructed to undertake advisory and drafting work.

In 2021, Henrietta was the Judicial Assistant to Mr Justice Mostyn in the Family Division of the High Court.

In addition to her caseload, Henrietta sits on various family law committees. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Financial Remedies Journal, and was a member of the financial remedies sub-group of the Transparency Implementation Group, which wrote a report for the President of the Family Division containing recommendations about what changes should be made to the media’s ability to report on private financial remedies hearings. Henrietta is particularly well placed to advise clients concerned about privacy and media attention given her involvement in the Transparency Implementation Group.

Henrietta also enjoys writing and speaking about family law. She is an author of the textbook Financial Remedies Practice, described as ‘the go-to reference book when considering any practical issues arising from the FPR 2010’ by the Law Society Gazette. She also frequently provides lectures to solicitors’ firms and local Resolution networks, and has been invited to speak at the annual At A Glance financial remedies conference twice.

  • Financial remedies (including Schedule 1)
  • Private law children
  • Applications under the Family Law Act 1996
  • International child abduction

  • CG v DL [2023] EWFC 82
  • UG v NN [2022] EWHC 8 (Fam)
  • Horohoe v Horohoe [2020] EWFC 10

Henrietta is a co-author of the annually revised textbook Financial Remedies Practice (Class Legal), together with Sir Nicholas Mostyn (formerly Mr Justice Mostyn), Lewis Marks KC, Richard Sear KC, Gavin Smith, Phillip Blatchly, Joshua Viney and Henry Pritchard.

She has had over 50 articles and case summaries published by Class Legal, Family Law Week, LexisPSL and Estates Gazette, and for a year wrote weekly case summaries for Class Legal’s newsletter.

  • Family Law Bar Association
  • Lincoln’s Inn

University of Cambridge (Queens’ College) – MA Classics
City, University of London – Graduate Diploma in Law and Bar Professional Training Course

Scholarships and awards 

Advocacy

  • Debating Shield (Lincoln’s Inn)
  • Magna Carta Mooting Shield (Inner Temple)
  • King of Bhutan Mooting Cup (Inner Temple)
  • Winner, University of Cambridge/XXIV Old Buildings Commercial Equity Speed Moot

Academic

  • Lord Denning Scholarship for the Bar Professional Training Course (Lincoln’s Inn)
  • Lord Bowen Scholarship for the Graduate Diploma in Law (Lincoln’s Inn)
  • Postgraduate Scholarships for the Graduate Diploma in Law and Bar Professional Training Course (City Law School)
  • Buchanan Prize for performance in the Bar exams (Lincoln’s Inn)
  • Top of year for the Opinion Writing Bar exam (City Law School)
  • First Prize, Property Bar Association Essay Competition
  • Foundation Scholarship for First Class performance in the Classical Tripos (Queens’ College, Cambridge)
  • Henry Arthur Thomas Book Prize for First Class performance in the Classical Tripos (Faculty of Classics, Cambridge)

At university, Henrietta was president of the Cambridge University Wine Society. She was also captain of the Cambridge team for the Varsity blind wine tasting match against Oxford, and competed internationally at wine tasting competitions across Europe.

Henrietta is a keen cyclist, and enjoys following professional road cycling.