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.
Outstanding Contribution to Financial Remedies
The Outstanding Contribution to Financial Remedies award was awarded to Karen Barham, Moore Barlow LLP.
"Aside from the published awards we want to make a special award which reflects a very significant contribution to FR law and practice in the recent past.
The first recipient of the outstanding contribution to FR law and practice is Karen Barham.
Over the last several years, Karen has worked tirelessly and to some significant effect in promoting non-court dispute resolution. This is important in helping families resolve their problems with less cost and without the stress and heartache of litigation. It is also important for the court system, as we have heard today, straining at the seams. So I and my fellow awards judges consider that Karen’s very significant contribution should be noted.
Karen, for anyone who knows her, is a force of nature. Her ideas about non-court dispute resolution, courts taking a more robust line in promoting it, costs penalties for unreasonable refusal to attend NCDR and a requirement that the parties correspond openly about their approach to NCDR caught the zeitgeist.
Starting out as something she called the “Surrey Initiative” she took her ideas on the road, rebranding them the Family Solutions Initiative. This caught the eye of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, and she was invited to join the working party which generated the amendments to Part 3 and Part 28, which came into force last year.
Karen has been a disrupter and an agent of change for the good. None of this is financially rewarded and is a pro bono contribution of the upmost importance.
I am very pleased to acknowledge Karen’s outstanding contribution to the financial remedy community by this award"
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