Katherine Dunseath

Katherine is a leading junior barrister specialising in both complicated high net worth financial matters and private children cases.

She has particular expertise in matters involving difficult novel points of law at both domestic and international level with particular interest in:

• International financial remedy, enforcement and issues of jurisdiction 
• Advising on domestic and international maintenance, including variation and enforcement   
• Legal costs funding orders and LSPO applications in cases involving sophisticated international assets
• Complex business structures (both domestic and international)
• Complicated children matters with an international dimension.

CASES:

• RG v TA (Appeal: Legal Services Funding Order: Schedule 1 Children Act 1989) [2023] EWHC 3155
• Des Pallieres v Des Pallieres [2021] 4 WLR 96 (Court of Appeal)
• DP v DP [2020] EWHC 3188 (Fam) (High Court) 
• M v P (the Queen’s Proctor Intervening) [2019] 2 FLR 813
• Mills v Mills [2018] 4 All ER 612 [2018] UKSC 38
• Mills v Mills [2017] EWCA Civ 129
• Re L and B (Children) (Specific Issues: Temporary Leave to Remove from the Jurisdiction; Circumcision) [2017] 1 FLR 1349
• In the Matter of X, Y and Z (Children) (Retrospective Leave to Remove from the Jurisdiction) [2016] EWHC 2439 (Fam)
• LM and DR (Return to Non-Convention Country) [2016] EWHC 1943 (Fam)
• In the Matter of JL and AO (Babies Relinquished for Adoption) [2016] 4 WLR 40; [2017] 1 FLR 1545
• Guerroudj v Rymarczyk [2016] 1 FLR 1349

PUBLISHED ARTICLES:

• December 2023: with P. Allsop: Legal costs funding under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 – Evidence (RC v TA) LexisNexis
• Summer 2023: With E. Darlington: Fairness versus Certainty – Should the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 be Amended to Restrict the Duration of Spousal Maintenance? FRJ
• October 2021: with D. Eames: Jurisdiction and Brexit: Des Pallieres v Des Pallieres [2021] FLJ 1304
• June 2019: with J. Bazley KC: Considering the impact of the wrong box on a divorce petition, June [2019] Fam Law
• September 2018: with J. Westcott: Periodical Payments, no second bite [2018] FLJ 179
• July/August 2017: with C. Lloyd-Smith: Parental Abduction within the UK (Issue 189 Resolution)
• March 2017: with F. Feehan KC: Varying maintenance: Mills, March [2017] Fam Law
• February 2017: With F. Feehan KC: Maintenance payments as a gateway to independence (Mills v Mills) LexisNexis
• November 2016: with R. Harrison KC and S. Craddock: 'Should I stay or should I go? Where the clandestine removal of a child from the jurisdiction is not unlawful: LM v DR’ November [2016] Fam Law
• October 2016: With K. Taft: English court exercises jurisdiction in retrospective leave to remove case (Re: X, Y and Z) LexisNexis
• August 2016: With R. Harrison KC: Summary return and competing jurisdictions LexisNexis
• August 2016: with J. Chegwidden: 'A clear conclusion: religious circumcision for boys' August [2016] Fam Law
• July 2016: 'Babies relinquished by foreign nationals: leading guidance': July [2016] Fam Law
• July 2015: Court considers transfer of tenancy on separation LexisNexis
• February 2014: Evidence and interim care orders LexisNexis