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Ben Boucher-Giles
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Ben Boucher-Giles

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Call: 2004

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Ben Boucher-Giles’ expertise is primarily in high-value, complex matrimonial finances cases, particularly those involving an international element. Ben also has a wealth of experience in private law children disputes with particular experience in cases of international and domestic relocation and cases concerning serious allegations of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of children.  Ben is widely considered to give direct advice in an approachable fashion. He is known for being well prepared and is particularly adept in handling cases with complex legal issues or where robust cross-examination is required.  Prior to joining FOURTEEN, Ben had a successful practice in the North East of England and retains strong links there.  Ben has acted for clients in proceedings in all levels of court, up to and including the Supreme Court.

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Ben regularly undertakes private law Children Act work and specialises in cases involving internal and international relocation and those which involve very serious allegations against a parent. Ben also deals with international child abduction cases under the 1980 and 1996 Hague Conventions and Brussels IIR.

Ben has experience of cases involving parental alienation, implacable hostility, sexual abuse of children, serious accidental and non-accidental injuries to children, all forms of domestic abuse and cases involving fabricated or induced illness, hypochondriasis, shaken children and cases involving the deliberate death of children and other adults.

Reported cases
15th July 2014 | Bailii

W (Children) [2014] EWCA Civ 1065

Successful appeal considering (1) the interplay between public law and private law proceedings where the State seeks to intervene in the placement of a child; (2) a reconsideration of the balancing exercise where the mother is able to provide “good enough” care but the grandmother is able to provide better care; and (3) the balancing exercise for purposeful delay for further assessment of a parent.

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Ben’s practice encompasses complicated and high net worth finance cases, particularly cases involving offshore assets, detailed company accounts, nuptial agreements, third party resources and trusts and cases involving concealed or dissipated assets. He regularly advises in relation to pre-nuptial agreements.

Ben has experience of Hemain injunctions, domestic and international freezing orders and applications for financial relief after an overseas divorce under Part III MFPA ’84.

Ben is regularly instructed in relation to cohabitation disputes under TOLATA (both as freestanding civil applications and as an intervener within financial remedy proceedings) and under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.

Ben has a particular specialty in enforcement proceedings involving other jurisdictions and regularly undertakes Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Order (REMO) cases including those under MO(RE)A 1972, the EU Maintenance Regulation, MOA 1950, the 2007 Hague Convention, the Lugano Convention 2007, MO(FE)A 1920 and the Administration of Justice Act 1920.

Ben has experience of finance and children cases with an international element, including:

·      International freezing injunctions
·      Hemain injunctions
·      Part III MFPA 1984
·      Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders
·      Advising on international enforcement of orders
·      Child abduction
·      Cross-border enforcement of child arrangements

 

Reported cases
22nd March 2013 | Jordans

Re C (Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Orders Relating to Child) [2012] EWHC 907 (Fam)

Moylan J considers the interaction of English public law proceedings and ‘trumping orders’ under Article 11(8) of the 1980 Hague Convention.

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W (Children) [2014] EWCA Civ 1065 Successful appeal considering (1) the interplay between public law and private law proceedings where the State seeks to intervene in the placement of a child; (2) a reconsideration of the balancing exercise where the mother is able to provide “good enough” care but the grandmother is able to provide better care; and (3) the balancing exercise for purposeful delay for further assessment of a parent.

Re C (Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Orders Relating to Child) [2012] EWHC 907 (Fam) Moylan J considers the interaction of English public law proceedings and ‘trumping orders’ under Article 11(8) of the 1980 Hague Convention.

 

What the directories say

Ben is “a junior who demonstrates great commitment to his cases”.
Legal500 2025

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Professional Qualifcations

Hatfield College, Durham University

Professional Memberships

Lincoln's Inn
Family Law Bar Association
Resolution

Data Protection

Ben Boucher-Giles' Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) registration number is Z2629229.
Please see here for his Data Privacy Notice.

2nd October 2024
FOURTEEN recognised in the Legal500 as a “go-to set” with “a strong choice of barristers”
7th May 2019
Martin Ward, Ben Boucher-Giles and Camini Kumar speaking at Nockolds Family Law Seminar on 25th June 2019 – book here
16th July 2014
Ben Boucher Giles in successful appeal
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