Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Direct Access
Awards
Harmsworth exhibitioner and scholar at Middle Temple.
“Katharine is superb with clients, opponents and Judges alike. She is very approachable, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the law.”
Legal 500 2023
“She is warm and personable and bonds well with clients.”
Chambers & Partners 2023
Experience
Year of Call: 1991
Qualifications
MA (Cantab)
Education
University of Cambridge (Christs College)
Languages
A bit of French and Latin
Profile
“Persuasive, honest and prepared to go the extra mile for clients” Legal 500. Katharine is approachable, knowledgeable and a determined advocate. She has been a pupil supervisor for 20 years and was trained early in direct access.
Family Finance
Katharine is a financial remedy practitioner who takes on complex cases often involving company structures, trusts, jurisdiction and international issues. She has a particularly long standing practice in trusts of land work which is most often found in cases with intervenors.
Private Law Children
Katharine is a very approachable barrister with a long experience of complex cases involving alienating behaviours, high conflict, domestic abuse and same sex relationships. She appears in the High Court and Family Courts across the country with a particular history in East Anglia.
International Children Law
Katharine undertakes international child abduction work under the Hague Convention.
Non-court dispute resolution
Katharine is training as an arbitrator. She has wide experience of arbitration, private FDRs, lawyer led mediation and round table meetings and is a great proponent of non court dispute resolution in the right case.
Publications/Training
Katharine has published a book on Schedule 1: financial support for unmarried parents. A second edition has been commissioned later this year.
https://www.wildy.com/isbn/9781912687473/a-practical-guide-to-financial-provision-for-children-under-schedule-1-of-the-children-act-1989-paperback-law-brief-publishing
Katharine provides a wide range of training for most of the main CPD providers, Resolution, individual solicitors firms and local practitioner groups.
Katharine frequently lectures for MBL, Lawnet, Professional Conferences, For Media Group and Lexis. She lectures in person and online, both recorded and live. In the last year she has lectured for 4PB, lectured the Malaysian family bar and last Spring went to the US to lecture the New York State Bar Association’s first worldwide Symposium on Crypto currency
The lecturing gives her a broad base of up to date legal knowledge at her finger tips.
https://www.mblseminars.com/speakers/2439katharine-bundell
https://proconferences.com/product-category/legal/?swoof=1&pa_disciplines=family-law&really_curr_tax=137-product_cat
Upcoming Seminar – 27 November 2024
Matrimonial Finance Non-Disclosure and Instructing Experts
Katharine discusses the issue of non-disclosure in financial remedy proceedings and the effect on instructing experts, with a specific focus on share valuations. For more information, click here.
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
Financial remedies sub committee of the (FLBA)
Resolution
Directories
“Katharine is superb with clients, opponents and Judges alike. She is very approachable, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the law.”
Legal 500 2023
Katharine has a South Eastern Ranking in Chambers & Partners and is listed in the Legal 500.
Chambers and Partners 2023
Katharine Bundell has a diverse practice in family law, providing advice on all matters relating to financial remedy and trusts of land disputes. She often takes on financial cases involving complex jurisdictional and company-related issues.
Strengths
“Katharine responds quickly to queries and has a good client manner. Her advocacy is impressive and she is very determined on behalf of clients.”
“Particularly strong in terms of her knowledge of case law. She lectures in law and so she combines detailed knowledge with top-class skills in advocacy.”
“She is warm and personable and bonds well with clients.”
“Katharine’s ability to pick up detailed nuances of a case from papers is incredible, and she works closely with the instructing solicitor to ensure the client benefits from a collaborative approach.”
Chambers and Partners 2022
Strengths:
“Commercial and resolution-focused with an excellent client manner.”
“She is quick to build a great rapport and is a pleasure to deal with.”
“Recommended for a wide range of family law matters.”
Chambers and Partners have ranked her in previous years and have reviewed her as follows:
“A favourite in the region, highly praised for her manner with clients. She continues to practise in all areas of family law.”
‘Persuasive, honest and prepared to go the extra mile for clients.”
“She’s extremely thorough and diligent. She’s a good advocate and a good negotiator, and she’s very good with clients.”
Legal 500 2023: Leading Juniors: Divorce and Financial Remedy
“Katharine is superb with clients, opponents and Judges alike. She is very approachable, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of the law.”
Legal 500 2022
“Katharine Bundell, who is sought out for her experience in financial remedy claims, is bright, incredibly hard working, full of good ideas, and has an excellent bedside manner.”
“She is exceptionally bright and brings a fantastic energy to her work. Her thorough preparation is evident when in conference and court. She can relate to whomever she is acting for.”
Legal 500 2021
“She is able to recall precedent cases, even very obscure ones, off the top of her head, also statutes and references to the family procedure rules.”
Legal 500 in previous years have ranked her and have reviewed her as follows:
“She is particularly strong in financial remedy, trusts of land and public law children cases.”