Jacqueline Humphreys
Call 1994 (Lincolns Inn)
Qualifications MA Jurisprudence (Oxon) 1992 LLM Canon Law Cardiff Law School, University of Wales
Mediation Jacqueline is an accredited mediator
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Areas of Practice
Family Law
Jacqueline has a strong practice consisting almost exclusively of financial remedy cases, built upon the back of a considerable wealth of experience in all areas of family law work. She regularlarly undertakes high net worth cases and has extensive experience of dealing with family companies, trusts and pensions and enjoys the forensic challenge of tracing hidden assets. Alongside ancillary relief in both divorce and civil partnership dissolution cases, she also regularly undertakes cohabitee property disputes under ToLATA, Inheritance Act claims and applications for financial provision for children under Schedule 1 of the Children Act.
Prior to moving to part time working, her strong ancillary relief practice was recognised in Legal 500.
She has a small, complementary, chancery practice dealing with charity law and ecclesiastical law cases. She was recently one of a number of members of chambers who together wrote the Case Law Resource Guide for the new Northern Ireland Charity Commission.
She was appointed as amicus curi in an ancillary relief case with two litigants in person where the parties had acted in breach of trust regarding funds to which their minor children were beneficially entitled.
Whilst having a very practical approach to her cases, Jacqueline enjoys the academic study of law, completing her LLM part time whilst in practice and being the author/co-author of a number of published articles on both family law and ecclesiastical law topics. She has also lectured locally and nationally on a range of legal issues, both to legal and non-legal audiences.
Reported Cases
- North Yorkshire County Council v Wiltshire County Council [1999] 2 FLR 560. Dealing with which local authority should be designated in a care order.
Legislation
Jacqueline was one of the authors of The Clergy Discipline Rules, SI 2005 No 2022
Direct Access
Jacqueline is qualified to undertake Direct Access work in appropriate cases, for further information, please visit our Direct Access page.
Publications
- Charity Case Law Resource Guide, Northern Ireland Charity Commission, (2011)
- The Civil Partnership Act 2004, same-sex Marriage & the Church of England Jacqueline Humphreys (2004) 7 Ecc LJ 405
- The Shipman Injunction: Right or Wrong? Private Client Business (1995) p368, (with Philip Moor).
- Podium: Remarriage in Church After Divorce Modern Believing 42(3) 2001 pp.50-55 (with Simon J Taylor).
- ‘The Right to Marry in the Parish Church: A Rehabilitation of Argar v Holdsworth’ (2004) 7 Ecc.L.J. (July 2004)
- Mystical Union: Legal and Theological Perspectives on Marriage’ in Adrian Thatcher (ed) Celebrating Christian Marriage (Edinbugh: T & T Clarke, 2001) pp. 421-439 (with Simon J Taylor).
Interests
She is an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England and has been an appointed member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the Church of England and the Legislative Committee of the Church of England.
She enjoys pilates and coast walking and has recently taken up running.
