Nikki Saxton KC
Call: 1992 | Silk: 2024
Nikki Saxton KC
Professional Memberships:
CIArb
The Judicial College
Resolution
The FLBA
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
“Her advocacy is flawless: she knows how to get a judge on side. An iron fist in a velvet glove!" (Legal 500, 2026)
Nikki Saxton KC is one of only 3 specialist financial remedy silks outside London and the only financial remedy silk on the North Eastern Circuit.
Nikki is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and available to undertake financial arbitration and private FDRs.
Nikki is a Northern powerhouse who has a loyal following, acting for clients with complex financial disputes. She is instructed by clients in London, Leeds & the Northern Circuit. Her clients are often high-profile and/or high-net-worth individuals.
She has over 20 years’ experience, specialising exclusively in the field of:
Matrimonial finance.
Schedule 1 claims (Financial rights for unmarried parents).
Large and involved financial remedy claims - often involving complex trust & business structures.
Nuptial agreements.
Reputation
Nikki Saxton KC is ranked as a Band 1 Silk in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500:
"Nikki is at the top of her game. Her technical skill and eye for detail are unmatched. She has the ability to get to the core of any case, no matter how complex. She is incredibly reassuring for clients, and oozes gravitas. Her advocacy is flawless: she knows how to get a judge on side. An iron fist in a velvet glove!" (Legal 500, 2026)
"She is a formidable advocate and hugely technical when it comes to her understanding of complex businesses and financial arrangements" (Chambers & Partners 2026)
“Nicola Saxton KC has a vast amount of experience in complex finance matters. She regularly advises high net worth individuals on cases involving corporate assets and trusts as well as farms. Nicola Saxton KC is a great barrister” (Chambers & Partners 2025)
Expertise
Financial Remedy
Nikki undertakes financial remedy work for high-net-worth individuals and is regularly involved in cases where the assets exceed £20m and regularly acts in cases of substantial value and complexity.
She has been involved in a number of high-net-worth High Court matters, typically involving assets up to - £75m.
She was recently instructed in a complex 10-day conduct case. Nikki successfully argued that the husband’s embezzlement of just under £3m from the family company, over 20 years was so grave that he should be reduced to his basic needs to be met on schedule 1 style terms to survive potential bankruptcy.
Her cases frequently involve family businesses and privately owned companies, and she has experience of both foreign and domestic trusts.
NCDR
Nikki is a qualified arbitrator and is a member of CIArb.
Nikki is regularly chosen as a pFDR neutral evaluator.
Nikki has a holistic and commercial approach to litigation and, in addition to her advocacy in court, a large amount of her work is conducted behind closed doors, assuring her clients the privacy and timescales they need. She has concluded negotiated settlements with assets up to £450m and regularly represents clients at joint settlement meetings, private Financial Dispute Resolution hearings and Arbitrations.
Notable Cases
[Goodman v Walker [2024] EWFC 212B][1]
Re A (Schedule1; Overspend, costs clawback) [2022] EWFC 21
[L v L [2021] EWFC B83][2]
[MF v SF (Financial Remedy: Financial Conduct) [2016] 2 FLR 622][3]
[FS v PS [2015] EWHC 2797][4]
[AR v AR (Treatment of Inherited Wealth) [2011] EWHC 2717 (fam)][5]
[Richardson v Richardson [2011] EWCA Civ 79][6]
Recent instructions have included: successfully defending a challenge to a pre-nuptial agreement in proceedings involving assets exceeding £60 million; acting for a party in contentious proceedings concerning the division of multi-generational farming assets where the future impact of a proposed renewable energy scheme on land values formed a significant consideration, alongside related negotiations to achieve a commercially sensible solution; acting in a 10 day financial remedy hearing, establishing that millions of pounds removed by the opposing party was financial conduct and successfully advancing the argument that their future needs should not dominate but should be reduced to a minimum and representing a high-profile sportsman in long running Schedule 1 proceedings.
Clerks
