About
Miranda specialises in family law, including prenuptial agreements, financial settlement on divorce and arrangements for children after parents separate. She has been a specialist family law practitioner for over twenty years, and is equally adept at dealing with complex financial disputes and the most difficult children cases. Her financial cases often involve trusts, inherited wealth, family businesses, offshore asset structures, and the protection of family wealth through pre/post nuptial agreements.
Miranda is experienced in international family law cases involving financial issues and the relocation of/arrangements for children, applications to the English Court for financial settlement following divorce proceedings overseas, and jurisdiction disputes, particularly concerning Eastern and Western Europe, the United States of America and the Middle East. Miranda has expertise in Islamic family law issues and is Head of the Charles Russell Speechlys Middle East Family Practice. She is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL).
Miranda regularly advises high profile clients, including in the sport and media industries, and is accustomed to dealing with privacy issues. She is co-author of Privacy and Disclosure for Family Lawyers for Resolution and Child Contact: Law and Practice for Law Society Publishing.
Miranda is ranked in Band 1 in the Chambers and Legal 500 directories, in the Citywealth Leaders List, and in the Spear’s 500 as one of the top flight family lawyers in the UK. She won Family Lawyer of the Year at the 2018 Spear's Wealth Management Awards, having been shortlisted for the award in 2017.
“Miranda is an excellent family lawyer: intelligent, determined and capable. She is prized for her discretion and focus on out of court settlements in some of the highest profile family law cases." - Citywealth Leaders List 2017
Miranda is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- L v O [2024] (Stay of Order/Hadkinson Order/Security for Costs) EWFC 6
- AA v BB (Brussels II Revised/Hague Convention 1996) [2021] EWFC 17
- R v R (interim periodical payments and Legal Services Order Provision) [2021] EWHC 195 (Fam)
- Re K (A Child) (Stay of Return Order: Asylum Application) (Contact to Parent in Self-Isolation) [2020] EWHC 2394 Fam
- RJ v Tigipko [2019] EWHC 448 (Fam)
- Re J (Children: Permission to Remove from Jurisdiction) [2018]EWCA Civ 1372
- S and V (Children - Leave to Remove) [2018] EWFC 26
- Rotenberg v Times Newspapers UKSC 2017/0192
- Rotenberg v Rotenberg [2015] EWCA Civ 796
- Fields v Fields [2015] EWHC 1670 (Fam)
- Re A (A Child) (Financial Provision: Wealthy Parent) [2015] 2 FLR 625
- Luckwell v Limata [2014] EWHC 502
- G v G (Financial Remedies: Strike out) [2012] Fam Law 800
- Moore v Moore [2007] All ER (D) 158
- W v W (Residence: Enforcement of Order) [2005] All ER (D) 41
- Re D (Stay of Children Act Proceedings) [2003] 2 FLR 1159
