We are delighted to announce the winners of the Financial Remedies Awards 2025.
For our inaugural year, we received an exceptional number of entries from across the field of financial remedies, each one showcasing innovation, integrity, and excellence.
Winners were announced during a drinks ceremony following the Financial Remedies Conference 2025. Thank you to those who joined us for the awards. The awards were a fantastic opportunity to come together as a community to celebrate and recognise the incredible achievements of each of the winners.
Barrister of the Year
This award is generously sponsored by International Family Law Group
Barrister of the Year was awarded to Nicholas Allen KC, 29 Bedford Row.
The Barrister of the Year category celebrates an individual whose work in financial remedies has truly stood out over the past year. Whether through groundbreaking cases, influential advocacy, thought leadership, or exceptional pro bono service.
Here's what the judges had to say:
"The winner has been selected based on the overall and wide-reaching contribution he makes to financial remedies, as a barrister, collaborative lawyer, arbitrator, PFDR judge, Recorder and contributor to and commentator on financial remedies – as well as in his capacity as a member, and chief draftsman, of the FP Rules Committee Early Resolution Sub-Group, which produced the revised pre-action protocol for FR proceedings.
He has been an exemplar of counsel’s role in NCDR in financial remedies for many years personally demonstrating the merit and humanity of compromised settlements over litigation for families.
He has been instructed in many notable cases over the years, but as a judge, gave the first published judgment in a case which involved the court’s powers to stay proceedings for NCDR – NA v LA in 2004.
He makes a significant contribution to equality and diversity at the bar, and for recognition and acceptance of modern families. He is a member of the committee which produced the report on domestic abuse in financial remedy proceedings.
As Joint Head of Chambers, he is committed to providing pastoral care, mentoring and training to those in his chambers as well as championing schemes for students from disadvantaged backgrounds considering a possible career in law."
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