Abby Buckland

Partner

+44 (0)20 7814 1241 abuckland@kingsleynapley.co.uk

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Abby is a Partner in the Family and Divorce team who specialises in matters involving all aspects of private family law and in particular complex financial issues and private children cases.

Abby practices in all aspects of private family law, with particular expertise in:

Complex financial disputes often involving trust assets, family wealth or inheritance
Farming divorces
Pre and postnuptial agreements
All issues concerning the arrangements for children, particularly cases involving parental alienation, relocation within or outside of England and Wales and financial provision for children
Third party/intervenor cases

Abby gives clear, sensible advice and takes great care of her clients, working strategically and creatively to achieve the best possible outcome.

Abby is recognised in Chambers UK, Chambers High Net Worth Guide, Legal 500 UK and Spear’s Family Law Index. She was shortlisted as Woman of the Year – Rising Star in the Powerwomen Awards. Abby is listed in the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025.

Abby is a member of the Founding Committee for Thought Leaders4 HNW Divorce Next Generation committee and has spoken at and chaired numerous ThoughtLeaders4 events.

After reading English Literature at The University of Manchester, Abby went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course in Bloomsbury. Abby was a paralegal at a magic circle firm in their Mergers and Acquisitions team before commencing her training contract with a Lincoln’s Inn firm in 2008 and qualifying into their Family Team in 2010. Abby joined Kingsley Napley in 2012 and was made partner in 2020.

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Abby is my go-to recommendation – she is bright, determined, fierce when necessary but also proportionate, and she has exceptional judgement.

Chambers and Partners _ 2025

Abby Buckland is a real leader. The way that she treats her colleagues and clients gets the best out of everybody involved in her practice.

The Legal 500 _ 2024

Abby Buckland is tenacious and doesn’t pull her punches – she has good judgment and really knows the detail of her cases.

Legal 500 _ 2025

Abby Buckland is a tough negotiator but empathetic with her clients.

Chambers HNW _ 2025

A really impressive lawyer. She gets stuck into the detail, is really reassuring to her clients and is easy to work with.

Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide _ 2024

What Directories Say

“Abby is an outstanding tactician who makes clients instantly feel like they can breathe and know they are in the safest of hands.” Chambers HNW 2025

“Abby Buckland is very professional but she also has a strong awareness of the human side of the business.” Chambers HNW 2025

“She is a great lawyer who focuses on what the issues are really quickly and pulls the case together with no delay, always focused on the end result.” Chambers and Partners, 2025

“Abby was extremely sympathetic to my plight while remaining objective and offering sensible advice for me to achieve the best possible outcome.” Chambers and Partners, 2025

“Abby Buckland is tenacious and doesn’t pull her punches – she has good judgment and really knows the detail of her cases.” Legal 500, 2025

“Abby Buckland is a really impressive lawyer. She gets stuck into the detail, is really reassuring to her clients and is easy to work with.” Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

“Abby is an incredible lawyer with sound judgement and compassion.” Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

“Abby is just absolutely sensible, the safest pair of hands you could wish for. She is terribly approachable and really comfortable but doesn’t shy away from giving clients advice.” Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2024

“Abby is a really exceptional young partner. She works on some huge, complex cases kept deliberately quiet and has an incredibly sophisticated style with excellent judgement. A complete star of the future.” Chambers and Partners, High Net Worth Guide 2023

“I’ve always been impressed with Abby; she’s absolutely flawless. She is calm under pressure, compassionate and empathetic. She is really tough and has her client’s back 100%.” Chambers UK, 2023

“Abby is a very good solicitor who is very hard-working and has a great deal of intelligence, as well as emotional intelligence, which she brings to her cases.” Chambers UK, 2023

“She is great to work with. She’s very organised, strategic and client-focused.” Chambers UK, 2023

Recent Work

Mario Michael v Stalo Michael [2025] EWCA Civ 1668: Court of Appeal decision dismissing the husband’s application for permission to appeal the High Court’s decisions on tax treatment and valuations.
Michael v Michael (No 3) [2025] EWFC 245 – Representing Mrs Michael in securing an award of £15m plus costs and maintenance arrears.
Michael v Michael (No 2) [2025] EWFC 244 – Representing Mrs Michael in securing the appointment of Receivers.
Michael v Michael (No 1) [2024] EWFC 463 – Representing Mrs Michael in successfully establishing a finding of sham trust.
WW v XX [2024] EWFC 330 (B) (11 October 2024) – Acted for a wife in proceedings involving contested expert company evidence and an exploration of the Sharing principle and pre-marital cohabitation.
PS v NB [2023] EWHC 3485 (Fam) – Successfully acting for a wife in high value and complex financial proceedings, in her interim applications for maintenance and historic and ongoing legal fees from the husband.
CG V DL [2023] EWFC 82 – acted for hedge fund owner in respect of the financial settlement to be made upon his divorce.
CG v DL [No 2] [2023] EWFC 238 – successful application to recalculate the financial award given in earlier decision of CG v DL [2023] EWFC 82 in light of collapse of our client’s hedge fund in the intervening period.
Daga and Bangur [2018] EWFC 91 – Contested high value finances involving trusts and non-matrimonial assets
M v F [2018] EWFC 35 – High value Schedule I proceedings, world wide freezing order and enforcement costs provision