Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Lee is a specialist family law practitioner. She has a thriving practice in financial remedies, and has successfully represented high net worth clients in cases involving family businesses, inherited wealth, substantial pensions, nuptial agreements, and trusts. Many of her cases also involve tax complications, foreign assets and cross-jurisdictional issues, such as the validity of an overseas marriage or divorce, or competing claims in multiple jurisdictions (including cases pertaining to Asia and Africa).

Jennifer has appeared in a number of high-profile reported financial remedy/ divorce cases, most notably in Veluppillai v Veluppillai & Ors [2015] EWHC 3095 (Fam) (High Court); LFL v LSL (McKenzie Friends & Breach of Court Orders) [2017] EWFC B62; N v N (Afghanistan: Validity of an overseas marriage: Procedure)[2020] EWFC B55; and BC v SC [2023] EWFC 307(B) in which she was led by King’s Counsel.

Jennifer has a judicial role and sits as Fee-paid Judge of the Tax Chamber (FTT). She is ranked as a “Top Recommended” family law barrister in the prestigious Spear’s Legal Index 2024. She is also consistently top-ranked as a “Leading Junior (Tier 1)” in The Legal 500, and as a specialist in “family/matrimonial law” in Chambers & Partners (UK Bar)(Band 2). She has been highly commended for her attention to detail and her robust approach in negotiations and during hearings. She regularly appears as counsel in arbitrations and private FDRs, and sits as a private FDR judge.

In addition to financial remedies, Jennifer has retained a niche practice in modern families/surrogacy. She acted alone and was later led by King’s Counsel in R v T [2022] EWHC 3362 (Fam) which involved children of a same-sex couple in the UAE. She represented the successful appellant in the seminal Court of Appeal case of S (Children: Parentage and Jurisdiction) [2023] EWCA Civ 897, the leading decision on “consent” under the HFEA 2008 and jurisdiction over children matters “in or in connection with” matrimonial proceedings. Jennifer also leads the COP team and has an interest in capacity issues, particularly where they overlap with family law. She appeared for the successful applicant in DB v DW [2015] EWCOP 16.

Jennifer is often invited to speak at seminars/ conferences on topical family law matters. She regularly contributes articles to publications and websites such as Class Legal, the Financial Remedies Journal, the Family Law Journal and ThoughtLeaders4. She is a member of the FLBA, LAWASIA, and Resolution (ED&I Committee).

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