Laura Buchan

Laura Buchan

Year of Call: 2016
Email Address: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7583 8055

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Overview

Laura Buchan is a busy private law children, financial remedies and TOLATA specialist barrister, appearing in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Family Courts. Laura has developed a particular specialism in cases involving crypto-assets and costs arguments. Her experience ranges from needs to sharing cases.

Laura prides herself on her unique blend of warmth and professionalism which enables her to communicate openly, clearly and effectively with both her instructing solicitors and her lay clients. She has long adopted a collaborative approach with those instructing solicitors, ensuring that clients get the best experience from their legal team working in unison.

A passionate advocate and exponent of non-court dispute resolution, Laura has been instructed within round table meetings, mediations, arbitrations and private FDRs, where she is often instructed as a private FDR evaluator. Just this month (January 2025), she completed a TOLATA mediation as well.

Laura is a regular contributor to the magazine, High Net Worth about divorce, access to children and disputes between parents. She also regularly delivers seminars both in person and online on a variety of financial remedy-related topics.

A former Joint-Head of Pupillage with her former chambers, Laura is a pupil supervisor and active in pupil recruitment and training.

In her free time, Laura is a rugby fanatic having previously played in Bristol and internationally. She still regularly attends rugby matches both at club and international level. Laura spends the remainder of her time with her husband and two labrador dogs.

 

Expertise

  • Family
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    Financial Remedy

    Family barrister Laura Buchan is regularly instructed in financial remedy proceedings. She has extensive experience in dealing with complex proceedings, including pre-liminary issue hearings involving both commercial and family assets.

    She frequently advises and attends court dealing with issues of inheritance, crypto-assets, maintenance, interim applications and whether assets are likely to be considered matrimonial or not.

    Laura also has experience on navigating proceedings when the question of capacity has arisen and the involvement of the Official Solicitor.

    Laura also accepts instructions as a private FDR evaluator.

    Private Law Children

    Laura frequently represents parties across the full range of family law issues, including child arrangements, non-molestation and occupation orders.

    She has particular experience in matters involving complex issues of UK and international relocation, change of residence, alienating behaviours and cases involving allegations of serious emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Laura also has experience in recovery orders and enforcement.

    She is regularly instructed in international relocation disputes and is currently assisting a client with an ongoing case of relocation to Australia.

    Laura is often instructed to act for parents, grandparents and the child, through their 16.4 Guardian (both CAFCASS and NYAS).

    She is frequently instructed on behalf of the child where there are serious emotional, physical and sexual allegations as well as alienating behaviours. She receives excellent feedback about the quality of her counsel and her understanding of the child’s perspective and the impact of changes and delay in proceedings; which has helped Laura when representing Guardians in both public and private proceedings.

    Alongside her practice, she has provided Section 7 training to Local Authorities in consultation with CAFCASS and seminars on an array of private law matters. She is also a regular host of the Family Law Week podcasts and has been interviewed by Our Family Wizard and Lawyers Who Care.

  • Recommendations

    "Laura is extremely analytical, and her attention to detail is second-to-none. She presented cases eloquently and is ferocious when needed.” Legal 500, South East, Divorce and Financial Remedy, 2024

    “Laura has quickly become my “go-to” barrister for both Private Law and Financial Remedy cases. Wonderful to work with, she is friendly, approachable and impeccably prepared, providing sensible and well thought-out advice to clients who appreciate her ability to blend realism with compassion.”

    “Laura was excellent. She took a collaborative approach to reach an outcome that both sides were happy with. Her explanations to the client were clear and she went above and beyond to ensure that the client could understand and fully participate in the hearing (including using blue text to make documents easier to read with the client’s dyslexia and assisting the Court in setting up hearing aids). I was very impressed.”

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