Nichola Gray
Chambers Ranked in UK Bar 2024
Legal 500 Leading Silk 2024

Nichola Gray KC

Joint Head of Chambers

Call: 1991
Silk: 2021

“Highly experienced practitioner and Arbitrator who specialises in complex financial remedy disputes and who has particular expertise in asset tracing, offshore trusts and cases with an international element.”

“She is intellectually superior to most people; her brain works faster than anyone else’s in the room and she displays great agility in her thinking when on her feet and in Court.”

“She is able to strike up an instant rapport with clients, who do not doubt for a moment that she will fight their corner to the end.”

“A well-prepared, tenacious cross-examiner who has the ear of the court.”

“She is a determined advocate, who reads everything and misses nothing.”

Chambers and Partners 2024, Legal 500 2023, Chambers and Partners 2022

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Nichola was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2021 and is joint Head of Chambers at 1 Hare Court—the first woman in its 200 year history to hold this post.

She has over 30 years’ experience during which she has practised exclusively in financial remedy cases. She specialises in complex cases, particularly those involving corporate structures, on-shore and off-shore trusts and cases which have an international element. In addition, she is a recognised specialist in disputes between unmarried parties where there is a Schedule 1, Children Act 1989 element to be considered. She is also regularly instructed to advise on and draft pre-nuptial agreements and has a wealth of experience in both defending and challenging such agreements, having represented the wife in the frequently cited case of KA v MA (Prenuptial Agreement: Needs) where she successfully challenged the terms of the pre-nuptial agreement. She is renowned both for her attention to detail and for her robust performance in Court.

Nichola is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and regularly sits as a Private FDR Judge and Arbitrator where her ability to find innovative solutions is highly regarded.

“Highly experienced practitioner and Arbitrator who specialises in complex financial remedy disputes and who has particular expertise in asset tracing, offshore trusts and cases with an international element.”

“She is intellectually superior to most people; her brain works faster than anyone else’s in the room and she displays great agility in her thinking when on her feet and in Court.”

“She is able to strike up an instant rapport with clients, who do not doubt for a moment that she will fight their corner to the end.”

“A well-prepared, tenacious cross-examiner who has the ear of the court.”

“She is a determined advocate, who reads everything and misses nothing.”

Chambers and Partners 2024, Legal 500 2023, Chambers and Partners 2022

Practice

Nichola was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2021 and is joint Head of Chambers at 1 Hare Court—the first woman in its 200 year history to hold this post.

She has over 30 years’ experience during which she has practised exclusively in financial remedy cases. She specialises in complex cases, particularly those involving corporate structures, on-shore and off-shore trusts and cases which have an international element. In addition, she is a recognised specialist in disputes between unmarried parties where there is a Schedule 1, Children Act 1989 element to be considered. She is also regularly instructed to advise on and draft pre-nuptial agreements and has a wealth of experience in both defending and challenging such agreements, having represented the wife in the frequently cited case of KA v MA (Prenuptial Agreement: Needs) where she successfully challenged the terms of the pre-nuptial agreement. She is renowned both for her attention to detail and for her robust performance in Court.

Nichola is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and regularly sits as a Private FDR Judge and Arbitrator where her ability to find innovative solutions is highly regarded.

Financial remedies.

Reported cases of interest include:

  • AH v BH [2024] EWFC 125
  • AB v BA [2024] EWHC 1179 (Fam)
  • L v O [2024] EWFC 6
  • SS v IS [2023] EWHC 1544 (Fam)
  • KA v MA (Prenuptial Agreement: Needs) [2018] EWHC 499 (Fam)
  • ABX v SBX (DX Intervening) [2018] EWFC 81
  • T v M (Appeal against strike out of Application to vary) [2013] EWHC 1585 (Fam)
  • Lawrence v Gallagher [2012] EWCA Civ 394
  • L v L (Financial Remedies: Deferred Clean Break) [2011] EWHC 2207
  • G v IF (MFPA 1984 Part III: Lugano Convention) [2010] EWHC 1062

  • Author of Blackstone’s Guide to the Civil Partnership Act 2004
  • Contributing Author of Rayden & Jackson, Divorce & Family Matters:
    • Chapter 4 (Civil Partnerships)
    • Chapter 20 (Resolving Claims to Property)

  • Family Law Bar Association
  • Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers

University College, Oxford (Law)

“She is intellectually far superior to most people; her brain works faster than anyone else’s in the room and she displays great agility in her thinking when on her feet and in Court.”
“Nichola Gray is incredibly approachable and gives fantastic advice.”
Chambers and Partners (2024)

“Nichola is intelligent, hard working, and her documents are always immaculately prepared.”
Legal 500 (2024)

Ranked as ‘Pre-eminent’ in the list of Leading London Matrimonial Finance Law King’s Counsel.
Ranked as a leading Private Financial Dispute Resolution Judge, London.
Doyle’s Guide (2024)