Rebekah Batt

Rebekah has a busy and growing family finance practice and has experience dealing with cases involving intervenors, companies, property portfolios and non-disclosure of assets.

She has particular experience in this area having been under the supervision of Jennifer Lee during pupillage and having worked as a family paralegal prior to pupillage.

Rebekah is also a regular contributor to the Financial Remedies Journal.

Selected Cases

P v P

Junior counsel to Imogen Robins in a case with net assets of approximately £12m, including a company (which owned commercial property), a residential property portfolio and pensions.

G v B

Acting for W at a final hearing. Following Rebekah’s cross-examination of H and multiple of his family members and friends who gave evidence in support of him, the Judge made findings that H had lied to the court in resepct of (a) his earnings, (b) sums transferred to family and friends and (c) his ownership of a property outside the jurisdiction. The Judge also found that his family had colluded to assist him. As a result, all of the known UK assets were transferred to W and a costs order was made against H.

F v W

At FDR, Rebekah persuaded the court that H’s personal misconduct was a relevant factor, such that there should be an unequal division of the FMH in her client’s favour. The Judge endorsed W’s without prejudice proposal, on which Rebekah had advised in conference, and Rebekah achieved a settlement resulting in her client receiving 86% of the global assets.