LOUISE BANCROFT

Call 1985     Inner Temple

Family and private client

MA (Oxon)

bancroft@deanscourt.co.uk

‘A rottweiler in Court’
– Chambers UK, 2006
‘Very thorough and commercial in her approach…. An open manner, which impresses Judges’
– Chambers UK, 2007
‘If you can get Louise Bancroft, you don't need London’
– Chambers UK, 2008
‘Tough and determined’
– Legal 500, 2008
‘A real star for money work….A tough, plain-speaking negotiator.’
– Chambers UK, 2009
'reputation for fighting hard in ancillary relief applications'
- Legal 500, 2009
'strong financial practice.'
- Legal 500, 2010

Individual

Appointment

Recorder 2002

Education

Casterton School and St. Anne’s College, Oxford (MA, Modern History)

Areas of Practice

All aspects of Family law, specialising in ancillary relief but including
- Divorce and separation
- Matrimonial finance
- Public law adoption and care proceedings
- Private law - children

Professional Associations

Northern Circuit
Family Law Bar Association
Child Concern
UKAWJ Associate Member

Reported Case

P -v- P (Illiquid assets) [2004] EWHC 2277 (Fam), [2005] 1 FLR 548