Hannah Marshall

Hannah is an associate in our Family and Matrimonial team. 

She advises married couples, cohabitees and civil partners on all aspects of relationship breakdown and the financial disputes that may arise as a result. She acts in divorce and financial remedy proceedings and achieves settlements for clients both in and out of court proceedings.

Hannah is familiar with complex crypto-currency assets and she advises high net worth individuals on complex structures such as trust funds and family estates. She also advises on pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, including those with an international element. She is committed to assisting clients in exploring avenues such as mediation, arbitration and collaborative law, as an alternative to issuing proceedings.

Hannah sustains a busy children practice, regularly acting for parents in private law cases including child contact disputes, allegations of domestic abuse, fact-finding proceedings, declaration of parentage and applications to relocate with children (both within England and abroad).

Alongside her matrimonial practice, Hannah has established a specialist practice in cross-border children disputes. She acts for parents in child abduction proceedings pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention, and in wardship proceedings. Hannah has niche experience in acting for stranded spouses who have been abandoned abroad without their visas or travel documents, to enable them to return to the UK. She works collaboratively with immigration practitioners to secure their repatriation to this jurisdiction, including obtaining findings of domestic abuse against the other party in warship proceedings.

Hannah also acts for foreign public bodies in complex cross-border public law proceedings to secure the protection of children and vulnerable adults living in this jurisdiction under orders of foreign courts. She also assists partner and Head of the Family team, Alison Leivesley, in adoption matters, often with an international element.

Hannah has acted for both appellants and respondents within Court of Appeal proceedings, resulting in successful outcomes for clients. She acted for an intervener in the UK Supreme Court case of  G v G [2021] UKSC 9 (19 March 2021), which considered the interplay between asylum claims and 1980 Hague Convention proceedings. This case won runner-up ‘Case of the Year’ at the Family Law Awards 2021.

Hannah is an active member of Resolution and was elected as Secretary on the London Region Committee, having sat on this committee since 2019. She is committed to encouraging clients to reach agreement, where possible, utilising methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution.

She also delivers lectures to undergraduate family law students and has delivered training on all aspects of family law to the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA).