Gordon Shelton

Gordon Shelton

  • Year of Call: 1981
  • Recorder: 2000
  • LL.B. (Hons), University of Leicester
    Inner Temple
Practice

Gordon Shelton is a senior, highly experienced Family Law barrister. He is widely recognised as one of the leading family lawyers on the North Eastern Circuit, practising in ancillary relief and in Children Act matters.

Gordon has been in practice for 30 years and is known for his ability to deal with the most difficult cases. He is often instructed in ancillary relief applications involving high-value asset pools, complex foreign elements or financial dishonesty, and his Children Act practice embraces public and private law matters involving allegations of the gravest magnitude, wardship and adoption. Gordon is Broadway House Chambers' most senior children law practitioner and has appeared in a number of notable appeals on Children Act issues. He also acts in Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 disputes arising out of cohabiting relationships.

Gordon Shelton was appointed Recorder in 2000 and sits exclusively in family law cases. He is therefore able to rely upon his judicial experience when advising clients on discrete, sensitive issues. Gordon also represents individuals in professional negligence claims arising out of matrimonial or TOLATA matters.

 

What The Directories Say

 

Chambers & Partners UK

Gordon Shelton "maintains immaculate standards whether he is dealing with a high-value financial dispute or a sensitive adoption matter" - 2011

"'One of a classic breed and none the worse for that', Gordon Shelton is an experienced junior with high professional standards. He impresses as 'someone who always puts the hours in'" - 2010

"Gordon Shelton maintains a hefty caseload of both matrimonial finance and children-related matters. He is depicted as a 'reasonable opponent' who is valued for his 'polite and courteous behaviour both inside and outside the courtroom'" - 2009

"Gordon Shelton wins praise for being 'always well prepared'. ' He pitches his case well in court' and 'gives clients confidence, while never being afraid of communicating bad news to them'" - 2008

Legal 500

"Effective Counsel" - 2011

Gordon Shelton is "a popular generalist" - 2010

Gordon Shelton is "extraordinarily good with clients" - 2009

"Recommended" - 2008

 

Professional Memberships

 

Family Law Bar Association

 

Notable Cases

 

Court of Appeal

Re H (a minor) (1997)

Children Act 1989 - Contact - Whether necessary for contact to be supervised - Exercise of judicial discretion - Whether exercise of discretion wrong.

Re P (a minor) (1989)

Guardianship of Minors Acts - Interrelationship between public and private law proceedings - Local Authority intervening in private law proceedings - Adequacy of judgment.

Aljoe v Nyarko (1985)

Children - Access - Removal from jurisdiction - Rules of the Supreme Court 1981 - Meaning of "wrong" - Whether judge erring.

 

Recent Articles

 

Whoever Seeks Abroad May Find (February 2012, Broadway Quarterly) - a discussion of the principles relating to applications to permanently remove a child from the jurisdiction following Payne v Payne [2001] 1 FLR 1052 and the case law of 2010 and 2011.