Nick Manners
"Nick Manners is very smart and measured. He is a careful thinker and a very hard worker. He brings great strength to the cases he works on."
The Legal 500 UK 2021
Linkedin ProfileNick is a specialist family lawyer who focuses on all areas of family law, including issues arising from divorce, cohabitation and the financial consequences of a relationship breakdown.
He also regularly advises on children disputes involving contact, residence and relocation (including international relocation), as well as pre and post-nuptial agreements. He works for a variety of high net worth and ultra high net worth clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including those with a complex international angle. He also has experience of advising clients upon the breakdown of civil partnerships and Inheritance Act claims.
Nick has been involved in a number of high profile and reported cases at both first instance and the Court of Appeal, and has been quoted in national media (The Times, Daily Mail), on family law matters.
Cases of interest include:
- Appleton & Gallagher v News Group Newspapers and PA [2015] EWHC 2689 (Fam) (client privacy and the Family Court).
- Ciccone v Ritchie (No 1) [2016] EWHC 608 (Fam).
- Ciccone v Ritchie (No 2) [2016] EWHC 616 (Fam).
- AAZ v BBZ [2016] EWHC 3234 (Fam) (Financial remedy proceedings leading to award of over £453m to a wife).
- AAZ v BBZ & Ors [2016] EWHC 3349 (Fam) (Judgment supplemental to case above, concerning the principles of Legal Professional Privilege).
- Kerman v Akhmedova [2018] EWCA Civ 307.
- Barclay v Barclay [2021] EWFC 40 (Financial remedy proceedings leading to award of £100m to the wife).
Nick is an accredited member of Resolution. He is an associate governor of a primary school in Islington, and supervises students at BPP Law School’s Pro Bono Clinic (Family).
He read English Literature at Exeter University before qualifying as a Solicitor.
Joined Payne Hicks Beach 2008, qualified 2010, promoted to Senior Associate June 2017 and promoted to Partner December 2020.
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