Leslie Samuels KC

5 Aug 2024

   

Specialisms

  • Big Money Assets
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Leslie Samuels KC

T: 0207 353 0711  |  l.samuels@pumpcourtchambers.com

Leslie is an experienced and specialist family law KC practising in the areas of financial remedy proceedings, cohabitation disputes, inheritance and contentious probate disputes and Children Act matters.

He has extensive judicial experience. He was appointed a Deputy District Judge at the Principal Registry of the Family Division (as it was then known) in 2003 and as a Recorder in 2012. In 2016 he was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge. Leslie regularly sits as a judge hearing financial cases at the Central Family Court. He is one of the few judges to be authorised to hear complex cases there. He is also authorised to hear High Court financial remedy cases as a s.9(4) Deputy High Court Judge.

Leslie is an ADR accredited civil mediator and has conducted numerous mediations since qualification in 2005 and also private FDRS alongside his role as an arbitrator.

His expertise is widely recognised in the practitioner directories. For example, the 2024 Chambers and Partners directory describes him as “exceptionally knowledgeable, calm and measured.” The 2024 Legal 500 directory describes him as “a renowned and exceptional barrister with a calm and measured approach. His years of experience show he is first-class.”

Leslie is happy to undertake arbitrations on paper or by way of an oral hearing. He will provide a fixed cost quotation to include a directions hearing (which can be remote), the arbitration hearing and the written Award. He can arrange neutral premises for the arbitration in London or anywhere to suit the convenience of the parties.

Qualifications
Barrister, Mediator, Part-time Judge
 
Regions
Channel Islands, East Midlands, East of England, International (outside the UK), Isle of Man, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber