Nicola Shaw
Call: 1992
Nicola Shaw
Lincolns Inn (Sunley scholar)
Modern Languages LLB (Hons) Leeds University 1998
University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
Inns of Court Bar Vocational Course 1991-2
University of Victoria, Wellington, Dispute Resolution LLM Course
Collaborative lawyer, trained 2007
Trained Arbitrator
DDJ 2010
Contact
T: 0113 246 2600 or 01274 722 560
Nicola practises exclusively in the field of Dispute Resolution. Following a career at the Bar specialising in financial remedies, she was appointed as a full time District Judge in 2016. She was lead Judge for her region in the Financial Remedies Court from its inception in 2018 until taking early retirement in 2022. She now sits regularly in the Financial Remedies Court in London, as well as in the local courts on the North East Circuit.
Reputation
Nicola has chaired conferences and been invited as keynote speaker at specialist Dispute Resolution conference.
She was the representative for the Association of District Judges on the International Association of Judges from 2017 to her retirement, which involved being an ambassador for the English and Welsh judiciary on the international stage. She presented papers to the study commission and has chaired discussions in this forum.
She is the editor of the Financial Remedies Journal with a particular responsibility for pFDRs.
Chambers and Partners 2016:
“She is noted for her expertise on the intersection between family law and trusts, with particular experience in TOLATA cases and the co-ownership of property under trust. She can handle civil procedures which would make a lot of family lawyers wobbly at the knees. She's a real expert.”
“She is particularly noted for her training in collaborative law, and her client-friendly approach and innovative thinking set her apart from other practitioners in the field. "She sits as a Deputy District Judge and provides good, solid advice in financial cases. She is very accessible and takes a real interest in the case." "She is thoughtful, very client-friendly and a pleasure to work with."
She specialises in complex financial proceedings and cohabitation disputes. Commentators praise the value of her training in collaborative law, and note her considerable expertise in alternative dispute resolution and mediation. "She takes a holistic view of the client's circumstances and thinks outside of the box to consider the practical consequences of any advice she gives." "Nicola Shaw is very accessible and takes a real interest in the case, providing good, solid advice in financial cases."
Legal 500:
Very approachable and always well prepared
A first-rate lawyer, who is pragmatic with great interpersonal skills has a good, reassuring manner with clients’
Expertise
Nicola acts as a Private FDR Judge, Early Neutral Evaluation Judge and Arbitrator at Broadway House Chambers.
Whilst in practice, Nicola had a special interest in cases involving farms, partnerships and small businesses, as well as being regularly instructed in cases involving complex pensions arrangements.
Since being appointed, she has facilitated and adjudicated in cases which have multi-million pound assets and complex financial structures, across the spectrum to those where the financial assets are small, but which require careful handling to achieve fairness for the parties.
Clerks
Susan Sanders
Call: 2015
Susan Sanders
MA (Hons), University of Edinburgh, Persian and Social Anthropology (1999)
Graduate Diploma in Law (2014, Distinction)
Bar Professional Training Course (2015, Outstanding)
Middle Temple
Queen Mother Scholar (2014)
Family Law Mediator
Deputy Head of Immigration Team
Legal Aid Supplier Number 02ENW
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
Susan joined Broadway House in September 2016 after successfully completing a mixed pupillage.
She practises family and immigration law and has a particular interest and expertise in the overlap between these two areas. She is qualified to undertake work on a direct access basis.
Susan has an insightful approach and is regularly instructed to represent those who require sensitive and considerate client-care.
Before coming to the Bar Susan worked for human rights organisations and campaigned and carried out research in Afghanistan for Amnesty International. Susan speaks French and Farsi.
Susan is a family mediator and is available to mediate in cases involving child arrangements disputes and financial issues after separation.
Reputation
Articles
Unreasonable law – contested divorce and the case of Owens v Owens
Seminars
- Public Law Children: Deprivation of Liberty (2018)
- Disclosure of Material: Family & Criminal Proceedings (2018)
- Gatekeeping the IAC- Restrictions on appeal rights: Third Country, Clearly Unfounded and Remove First Certificates (2018)
- Trafficking and Age assessments (2019)
- ‘Immigration Applications for Children in Care & Immigration Issues for Kinship Carers/Parents Abroad’ (2021)
- How to prepare for a Deportation Appeal – Family and Private Life (2022)
Legal Directories
“She advocates with clarity and confidence, helping the client and the tribunal panel with complex procedural and legal issues.” (Legal 500, 2026)
“Her approach to advocacy is creative and engaging, whilst also being measured and sensitive. A junior who demonstrates careful and methodical reasoning.” (Legal 500, 2025)
“Susan is a very diligent barrister, with extensive knowledge of asylum and immigration law. She is an excellent communicator, and her ability to listen to clients puts them at ease during stressful situations for them. She is pragmatic and clear when giving advice” (Legal 500, 2023 and 2024)
“Susan is very dedicated and has in-depth knowledge of immigration law. Her advocacy is thoughtful and measured. She is particularly attentive to the needs of vulnerable clients and quickly builds a rapport with them.” (Legal 500, 2022)
Expertise
Family
Susan has a busy practice in all areas of family law and represents privately and publicly funded clients from directions hearings through to contested final hearings. She is regularly instructed in private law finding of fact hearings involving serious allegations, including rape, and in public law proceedings for the local authority. She is also involved in cases of domestic abuse, forced marriage, and those with an immigration element. She regularly advises local authorities in relation to immigration issues within public law proceedings.
She is a sensitive and effective communicator. One lay client said she is “absolutely wonderful and very professional with her work, [a] fantastic lady with big experience and commitment”.
Immigration
Susan regularly appears in the First Tier and Upper Tribunals and is committed to providing first class representation to those seeking asylum. She is often asked to advise and drafts judicial review claims as well as applications for permission to appeal.
Before coming to the Bar Susan worked for many years as a legal representative for asylum seekers at Refugee and Migrant Justice and in private practice. She is passionate about representing vulnerable individuals and carries out pro bono advocacy for the Manuel Bravo Project and Bail for Immigration Detainees. Her experience working in Central Africa, Iran and Afghanistan provides invaluable background for this work.
“The clients were very happy with the way the appeal was prepared and presented, [and] asked that I extend the family’s thank you to you. I am attaching a copy of the Tribunal’s decision … the appeal was allowed. This is an excellent result in a potentially tricky case with a long and difficult history" (Instructing Solicitor)
Notable Cases
Family
Re X – Represented mother in successful application to terminate a father's parental responsibility. This unusual application was made following the father's conviction for coercive and controlling behaviour and rape of the mother.
Re D – Junior counsel in High Court hearing considering allegations of child sexual exploitation
A v A – Finding of fact dealing with allegations of shooting and attempted kidnap
H v H – Finding of fact successfully represented a father facing allegations of sexual and physical abuse. No findings were made.
N v H –Successfully argued for set-aside of a declaration of trust on the basis of fraud at a preliminary issue hearing in financial remedy proceedings
Immigration
JG v SSHD – Successfully appealed decision to deport Jamaican national convicted of burglary, appeal then upheld by UT
EB v SSHD – Permission to appeal granted by the UT on basis of application of European case law to article 3 medical case, pending Supreme Court hearing of AM (Zimbabwe)
GK v SSHD – Upper Tribunal allowed human rights appeal of elderly Indian relative, finding paragraph 276ADE(1)(vi) was met. Appeal had been dismissed by First Tier Tribunal.
Advised EEA extended family member who, as a result, obtained residence permit on the basis of the EU Court of Justice case of Lounes
Clerks
Anna Sutcliffe
Call - 2015
Anna Sutcliffe
BPP University; BPTC; Outstanding
University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College, BA (Hons) Law; 2.1
Qualified Family Mediator
Family Law Bar Association
Resolution
Honourable Society of Middle Temple (Astbury Scholarship – 2014)
Contact
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
Anna is a specialist family law barrister who has maintained a deliberately mixed practice encompassing matrimonial finance and both private and public law children work. This enables her to advise clients on all aspects of their family law case, particularly where different areas of family law overlap. Anna spent the first 9 years of her practice at a leading family law set in London and she has experience appearing at all levels up to and including representing clients in the High Court. She is equally happy appearing in her own right or being led as junior counsel.
Anna also conducts private FDR hearings (with experience as both counsel and pFDR “judge”), and is a qualified mediator for both children and finance matters.
Reputation
Tier 2 (Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners 2026)
“Unfailingly well prepared and excellent with clients” – Chambers & Partners 2025
“Anna is efficient and approachable to work with. She provides highly technical advice and great client care” – Chambers & Partners 2025
“Anna takes difficult cases in her stride and is always calm, reassuring and to the point – judges love her.” – Chambers & Partners 2024
“Anna is a tremendous fighter. She is compassionate with vulnerable clients” – Legal 500, 2025
“Anna is a confident advocate who combines excellent knowledge of the law with a compelling style. She knows when to fight and when to negotiate and is incredibly calm under pressure.” – Legal 500, 2025
Family Law Awards: Shortlisted for Young Barrister of the Year (2019)
Expertise
Children Act
Anna regularly acts in applications for Child Arrangements Orders, Prohibited Steps Order and Specific Issue Orders (including disputes over issues such as schooling, holidays and name changes). She has a particular interest in domestic and international relocation proceedings. Anna conducts multi-day fact-finding hearings within Children Act proceedings, often involving serious allegations of abuse, and has acted in a number of cases involving the appointment of a Children’s Guardian. She regularly represents vulnerable clients.
Care
Anna acts in public law children proceedings on behalf of Local Authorities, parents, guardians and extended family members and has experience representing vulnerable clients (including those assisted by an intermediary).
Finance
Anna acts in all aspects of family finance proceedings, including financial remedies and Schedule 1 of the Children Act. She has experience dealing with cases involving high-net-worth individuals, third party interventions, pre/post nuptial agreements, and jurisdictional disputes. Anna also acts and advises in enforcement and variation proceedings.
Private FDR
Anna is available to conduct private FDRs.
Mediation
Anna is qualified to mediate in both financial and children disputes.
Notable Cases
H v W (2025): Jurisdiction dispute in respect of financial remedy proceedings, with parallel proceedings currently ongoing in competing jurisdictions.
M v F (2025): Anna acts for a mother in private law proceedings with the appointment of a r.16.4 Guardian. Serious allegations of abuse and intractable opposition to contact.
H v W (2023): Junior counsel in HNW financial remedy proceedings heard in the High Court. Instructed by the Official Solicitor. Achieved favourable FDR indication leading to settlement.
H v W (2023): Representing a wife/mother in parallel children and finance proceedings, which culminated in a combined arbitration of both issues. Oral evidence required from both parents and an ISW. Outcome obtained in favour of Anna’s client on both issues, alongside a costs order.
H v W (2023): Application for a freezing injunction over c£2.5m from sale of foreign shares
M v F (2023): Anna acted for a father throughout high-conflict private law proceedings involving serious allegations of abuse. No findings were made against the father and the mother’s application to relocate with the children was successfully resisted. Findings were made in respect of the mother’s influence over the children and a shared care arrangement was implemented.
M v F (2023): Anna acted for a father throughout long running and highly acrimonious proceedings which involved, at various stages, applications by the mother to relocate overseas and internally within the UK both of which were successfully resisted, with a shared care arrangement being implemented instead as sought by Anna’s client. The case involved particular sensitivities arising out of differing level of religious adherence between households.
Clerks
Andrzej Bojarski KC
Door Tenant - Call 1995 | Silk 2024
Andrzej Bojarski KC
Barrister, Arbitrator and Mediator
LLB (Hons) London School of Economics
Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
Family Law Bar Association
Chancery Bar Association
Gray’s Inn
Contact
E: clerks@broadwayhouse.co.uk
T: 01274 722 560 or 0113 246 2600
Andrzej Bojarski KC is a senior barrister and a leading ADR practitioner (as a family law arbitrator and a mediator), with a practice which has an unrivalled span across family law and chancery law. He is routinely instructed in cases involving complex business and trust structures, difficult issues of commercial law or corporate law, or with claims involving third parties. Much of his case load involves cross-border international elements. As well as his matrimonial work he deals with the chancery aspects of family disputes, including ToLATA claims and Inheritance Act disputes. He has developed particular expertise in crypto assets and FinTech.
Andrzej is also one of the most experienced and frequently chosen arbitrators and private FDR neutral evaluators. He is also a popular and effective mediator, known for bringing calmness to acrimonious disputes and finding creative solutions to apparently intractable problems.
Andrzej writes and lectures widely on English family law. He has been the Consultant Editor of the last two editions of the Matrimonial and Civil Partnership Law volumes of the authoritative legal encyclopaedia Halsbury’s Laws of England and he is also the author of a leading textbook on financial remedies in divorce.
Reputation
"A silent assassin. Pleasant and solutions-focused, he's forward-thinking and amicable with his opposite number, but in court he's ruthless in the way he presents the case and makes submissions to judges."
"A super advocate who is very easy to listen to. He's focused, he doesn't take nonsense points and he makes the most of his good ones. His cross-examination is really good."
"Andrzej Bojarski is excellent - he's very calm and very well-liked by his clients. He gives good advice and his paperwork and preparation are perfect."
(Chambers and Partners, 2023)
‘Andrzej brings his advocacy skills to the private judging sphere. He is thorough, empathetic and kind, hugely intelligent, and probably thinking five steps ahead of the advocates in front of him on every case, hard-working and keen to find/broker settlement. He is fully resolution-focused and will leave no stone unturned in trying to get a couple to that end.’
‘Andrzej gives clear well thought and excellent advice. He is a very good advocate and unfailingly polite to all involved. He is reliable and hugely experienced. He puts clients at their ease.’ He has ‘excellent client care skills’ and is an ‘incredibly easy barrister to work with’.
(Legal 500, 2023)
"Andrzej is fair-minded, technical and able to deal with the most difficult areas of family law."
"He really gets under the skin of the case from an early stage, and is personable, calm and understated. His technical knowledge is excellent."
"He is well prepared, very knowledgeable and has a great eye for detail."
"He's very financially astute, and I rate him very highly"
(Chambers & Partners, 2020)
"Has the ability to untangle the most complicated financial setup and then offer practical advice." (Legal 500, 2020)
"Andrzej is a master for detail and an excellent draftsman."(Chambers & Partners, 2019)
"He wins by being clever, persuasive and rational." (Chambers & Partners, 2019)
"Go-to individual for financial work. I know I can trust him and he will cut to the chase. He is brilliant with the client too." (Chambers & Partners, 2017)
"A very accomplished advocate. Good on paper and in court." (Chambers & Partners, 2017)
"Andrzej is excellent for financial work. His expertise in complicated offshore finances is second to none, and he is a barrister who offers strong advice." (Chambers & Partners, 2017)
"He is just outstanding. He knows the law and procedure like the back of his hand."(Chambers & Partners, 2016)
"Measured, eloquent, sensible" (Chambers & Partners, 2016)
Publications:
Consultant Editor of the Matrimonial and Civil Partnership Law volumes of Halsbury’s Laws of England.
Author of Unlocking Matrimonial Assets on Divorce (Family Law, 3rd edition 2012)
Author of numerous articles and regular presenter of webinars, seminars and lectures on family law.
Ranked as a leading practitioner for financial remedies work and ADR by both the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
Expertise
Finance: Andrzej is very highly rated as one of the most knowledgeable and skilled lawyers in the field of family finance, dealing with cases where the parties were married and are divorcing, and also in disputes between unmarried couples or resulting from other family relationship breakdowns. He is routinely instructed in the most difficult cases and has particular experience of trusts and complex business structures, usually with a multi-jurisdictional and international dimension. He is also well-known for his experience of and expertise in cases involving crypto-assets and FinTech, business and corporate governance issues in the midst of relationship breakdown, and property disputes involving families, including in relation to the estates of the deceased.
While he was still a junior barrister the influential Chambers & Partners Bar rankings listed Andrzej as one of only four “Star Individuals” in Matrimonial Finance work in London.
ADR: Andrzej has been a family law arbitrator since 2012 and has been acting as a neutral evaluator in private FDRs since 2017. He has conducted in excess of 200 arbitrations and private FDRs with many clients regarding him as the ‘go to’ tribunal in difficult cases. The Legal 500 says “Andrzej brings his advocacy skills to the private judging sphere. He is thorough, empathetic and kind, hugely intelligent, and probably thinking five steps ahead of the advocates in front of him on every case, hard-working and keen to find/broker settlement. He is fully resolution-focused and will leave no stone unturned in trying to get a couple to that end.”
International: Many of Andrzej’s cases involve an international dimension and he has extensive experience of jurisdictional disputes and the tracing or assets and enforcement of orders across international borders. He is also regularly approached to offer advice on English law to lawyers overseas. Andrzej is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.
Notable Cases
Unger v Ul Hasan [2023] UKSC 22. Seminal Supreme Court decision on whether unadjudicated matrimonial claims survive the death of a party.
Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 15 and [2023] EWFC 136. Successful repudiation of a wife’s claim that a husband had undisclosed assets of over $30 million.
Joseph v Grandison [2019] EWHC 977 (Fam). Successful enforcement of a ‘best endeavours’ injunction.
Clerks