Lewis Marks KC

"Lewis is a brilliant cross-examiner who is understated and personable but at the same time able to robustly present his client's case." "

Chambers & Partners 2022

"Each consultation is a tour de force of the law and clients come away with huge respect for him."

"He is renowned for his technical proficiency and superior courtroom skills."

Chambers & Partners 2019

"He is the most persuasive advocate I’ve ever seen in our profession."

Chambers & Partners 2019

Lewis Marks KC

"Lewis is a brilliant cross-examiner who is understated and personable but at the same time able to robustly present his client's case." "

Chambers & Partners 2022

Call: 1984

Silk: 2002

One of the foremost practitioners and leading advocates in family law for over two decades, with particular expertise in complex financial and international disputes, and an uncanny knack of identifying the right answer.

Overview

Lewis has been consistently ranked in the highest band of the leading silks specialising in Family Law in The Legal 500 and in Chambers & Partners. He is amongst the first choice counsel for most of the leading solicitors for the heaviest of cases and the most intractable of disputes. He prioritises fair and rapid settlement wherever possible. Where settlement is elusive, he has the ear of the judges and consistently delivers advantageous outcomes for his clients. He has an informal, even sometimes casual, manner in and out of court, is accessible and empathic.

Expertise

From the beginning of his practice he developed his advocacy skills in the criminal courts but since about 1995 he has practised exclusively in family law, and in particular in the sphere of “big money” financial remedies (financial provision following divorce) and ‘Schedule 1’ cases (financial provision for children of unmarried parents). He has appeared in many of the leading cases either as junior or, since 2002, as leading counsel.

Lewis has been a long-time member of the editorial board of the FLBA publication ‘At A Glance’ containing key information on all aspects of ancillary relief (and available in many good book shops and on e-reader), and a member of the team responsible for AAG Cloud © (formerly known as @eGlance ©). He is one of the founder authors of Financial Remedies Practice (now in its 10th edition).

 

“Lewis is a brilliant cross-examiner who is understated and personable but at the same time able to robustly present his client's case." "He's a persuasive, dogged advocate with a razor-sharp understanding of how cases evolve." "The most numerate practitioner at the Bar, his presentation of cases, analysis of numbers, and persuasive skills are unparalleled.”
Chambers & Partners 2022
“Sources extol his impressive all-round abilities both inside and outside the courtroom. ”
Chambers & Partners 2021
“He is renowned for his technical proficiency and superior courtroom skills.”
Chambers & Partners 2019
“Better than the majority of the family law world by a margin.”
Chambers & Partners 2019
“His numeracy is scary – he works things out in his head far more quickly that I can on a calculator.”
Chambers & Partners 2019
“He is the most persuasive advocate I’ve ever seen in our profession.”
Chambers & Partners 2019
“He’s head and shoulders above almost anybody else in silk at the Family bar.”
Chambers & Partners 2018
“A brilliant lawyer who is extremely numerate he runs these cases like an army manoeuvre.”
Chambers & Partners 2018
“Invariably his cases are so well thought through, so detailed, so well judged and really on the law.”
Chambers & Partners 2018
“…he has ‘unsurpassed numeracy and hard analytical skills,’ qualities that go some way to explaining his long, uninterrupted success in top matrimonial finance matters over the years. ”
Chambers & Partners 2018
“A go-to adviser in complex money disputes involving ultra high net worth individuals”
Chambers & Partners 2017
XW v XH (Financial Remedies: Business Assets)[2020] 1 FLR 1015 XW v. XH [2019] EWCA Civ 549; XW v. XH [2019] EWCA Civ 2262, [2020] 4 WLR 22 Bogolyubova v Bogolyubov & Anor [2023] EWCA Civ 547 Pierburg v Pierburg (No.2) [2022] EWHC 2701 (Fam) DR v UG [2023] EWFC 68 IX v IY (Financial Remedies: Unmatched Contributions) – [2019] 2 FLR 449 WX v HX, NX & LX [2021] EWFC 14 Brack v Brack [2020] EWHC 2142 (Fam) Re Al M (Publication) – [2020] 2 FLR 463, Re Al M (Assurances and Waiver) -[2020] 2 FLR 443, Re Al M (Fact-finding) – [2020] 2 FLR 409 Pierburg v Pierburg [2019] EWFC 24, [2019] 2 FLR 527 Martin v Martin [2019] 2 FLR 291 Versteegh v Versteegh [2018] 2 FLR 1417 Zimina v Zimin [2017] EWCA Civ 1429 WM v HM (Financial Remedies: Sharing Principle: Special Contribution) [2018] 1 FLR 313 (First instance) Mantegazza v Mantegazza [2017] EWHC 3811 (Fam) Z v Z (Application for Financial Relief After Foreign Divorce) (No 2) [2017] 2 FLR 456 (First Instance – substantive) Z v Z (Application for Financial Relief After Foreign Divorce) [2017] 2 FLR 405 (First instance – permission) Besharova v Berezovsky [2016] EWCA Civ 161 (Court of Appeal) NR v AB (Financial Remedies) [2017] 1 FLR 1030 WW v HW (Prenuptial Agreement: Needs: Conduct) [2016] 2 FLR 299 Fields v Fields [2016] 1 FLR 1186, [2015] EWHC 1670 (Fam) Thiry v Thiry [2015] 2 FLR 743 Cooper-Hohn v Hohn [2015] 1 FLR 4122 Cooper-Hohn v Hohn [2014] 1 FLR 2314 Cooper-Hohn v Hohn [2014] EWCA Civ 896  (Court of Appeal) Luckwell v Limata [2014] 2 FLR 1035 Luckwell v Limata (No 2) [2014] 2 FLR 502 Y v Y (Financial Orders: Inherited Wealth) [2013] 2 FLR 924 F v F (Financial Remedies: Premarital Wealth) [2012] 2 FLR 1212 Z v Z (No 2) (Financial Remedy: Marriage Contract) [2012] 1 FLR 1100 W v W (Divorce Proceedings) [2011] 1 FLR 372 Marano v Marano [2010] 1 FLR 1903 (Court of Appeal) M v M (Costs) [2010] 1 FLR 256 H v H (Financial Relief) [2010] 1 FLR 1864 Spencer v Spencer [2009] 2 FLR 1416 P v P (Post-Separation Accruals and Earning Capacity) [2008] 2 FLR 1135 Moore v Moore [2007] 2 FLR 339 (Court of Appeal) H v H [2007] 2 FLR 548 Miller v Miller [2006] 1 FLR 151 Re M (Freezing injunction) [2006] 1 FLR 1031 Sorrell v Sorrell [2006] 1 FLR 497 OS v DS (Oral Disclosure: Preliminary Hearing) [2005] 1 FLR 675 Burns v Burns [2004] EWCA Civ 1258 (Court of Appeal) M v M [2004] EWHC 688 (Fam) (29 March 2004) W v W (Financial Provision: Form E) [2004] 1 FLR 494 Pearce v Pearce [2003] 2 FLR 1144 (Court of Appeal) GW v RW (Financial provision: Departure from equality) [2003] 2 FLR 108 Wermuth No. 2 [2003] 1 FLR 1029 (Court of Appeal) – protective/provisional measures under Brussels II White v White [2000] 2 FLR 981 [2000] UKHL 54 Dart v Dart [1996] 2 FLR 286 [1996] EWCA Civ 1343
  • Member of the Family Law Bar Association (FLBA) since 1985
  • Elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML) in 2004

Lewis is married to Philippa Johnson, a Family Mediator, past Chair of the Family Mediators Association, former editor of the Family Law Reports and currently of the Family Court Reports. They divide their time between Central London and France (at least when they can).

He enjoys eating, walking, skiing, watching cricket and listening to jazz and Country & Western music; but not necessarily in that order, and is the unlikely proprietor of a piano bar in Birmingham.

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