Your Team
Christopher Pocock QC
Christopher is rightly revered for his high-profile work in divorce and matrimonial finance. He frequently acts for high net worth individuals and his cases typically involve businesses and/or complex financial arrangements, including both onshore and offshore trusts. He is also an expert in pre-nuptial agreements, financial disputes between unmarried couples, and inheritance issues.
Christopher has a dazzling reputation within the legal profession. Chambers and Partners has noted that “Pocock's wizardry when it comes to figures is legendary” and that he consistently impresses clients and peers with his “excellent financial brain”, as well as his ability to “identify the killer question” and his willingness to “get his hands dirty in difficult cases”. In Court he is admired for his “robust advocacy” and his “very concise and punchy delivery” that make him “popular with judges”. He is also praised for his “very easy-going manner with clients”, his “aura of calm” and his “highly pronounced human side” that makes him “the clients’ darling” and “a joy to work with”.
Educated at St Dunstan’s College and Pembroke College, Oxford, Christopher was called to the Bar in 1984 and took silk in 2009. He was voted Chambers and Partners’ Family Junior of the Year in 2007. In addition to his advocacy skills, Christopher is able to provide impartial dispute resolution services in an out-of-court setting. He is a fully trained collaborative lawyer (a member of London Family Solutions www.londonfamilysolutions.com and a qualified Family Arbitrator).
Christopher believes that one of the keys to his success is: “Engaging each client in the decision-making process. I don’t just tell them what to do, I explain precisely why they should be doing it.
Notable cases:
SW v RC [2008] 1 FLR 1703
H v H [2007] 2 FLR 548
Tracey v Tracey [2007] 1 FLR 196 CA
P v P (Ancillary Relief: Proceeds of Crime) [2004] 1 FLR 193
G v G (Financial Provision: Equal Division) [2002] 1 FLR 1143
Clibbery v Allen and Another [2002] Fam 261 CA
A v A (Maintenance Pending Suit( (no 2) [2001] 1 FLR 377
A-M v A-M (Divorce: Jurisdiction: Validity of Marriage) [2001] 2 FLR 6
Appointments & Memberships:
Member of the SE Circuit
Member of the Family Law Bar Association
Publications:
Encyclopaedia of Financial Provision in Family Matters, Wildblood & Eaton (Sweet & Maxwell).
Co-author of Consensus (by Class Publishing), a computer program for the legal profession that aids in the drafting of nuptial and other cohabitation agreements.