Janine McGuigan

"Janine is a future hall-of-famer. Not only is she an absolutely delightful person, but she combines it with a fierce desire to advance her client’s best interests at all times, and her written work is powerful and persuasive, bettered only by her advocacy."

Legal 500 2026

"Janine is a very strong advocate who also exhibits excellent client service."

Chambers & Partners 2026

"An excellent junior who combines impressive paperwork, exceptional advocacy and great client care skills."

Chambers & Partners 2026

"Janine is meticulous and excels at distilling down key points to their essence, which makes her an exceptional talent. A powerful advocate"

Legal 500 2025

"Nothing fazes her and she is probably one of the hardest working members of the Family Bar"

Chambers & Partners 2025

"She's got a great eye for detail and really good judgement"

Chambers & Partners 2025

"Janine has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law"

Chambers & Partners 2025

Janine McGuigan

"Janine is a future hall-of-famer. Not only is she an absolutely delightful person, but she combines it with a fierce desire to advance her client’s best interests at all times, and her written work is powerful and persuasive, bettered only by her advocacy."

Legal 500 2026

A diligent, determined and accomplished junior who specialises in financial remedy claims, Janine McGuigan is a future star of the Bar. She has an established reputation with clients for her meticulous preparation, commercial judgment and tenacious advocacy.

Expertise

Consistently ranked as a leading junior in matrimonial finance, Janine McGuigan is a future star of the Bar. She has an established reputation with clients for her meticulous preparation, commercial judgment and powerful advocacy.

Janine is a rapidly rising junior whose busy practice encompasses all aspects of private family law with a particular focus on the financial consequences of divorce and Schedule 1 claims. She is regularly instructed in, and has a particular interest in, cases with a foreign/international element and complex financial arrangements (including company, trust, tax and pension issues).

Janine is led by silks from both QEB and other sets in high net worth financial remedy claims, and also appears against silks and senior juniors without a leader. 

 

 

“An excellent junior who combines impressive paperwork, exceptional advocacy and great client care skills.”
Chambers & Partners 2026
“Janine is a future hall-of-famer. Not only is she an absolutely delightful person, but she combines it with a fierce desire to advance her client’s best interests at all times, and her written work is powerful and persuasive, bettered only by her advocacy.”
Legal 500 2026
“Janine is a very strong advocate who also exhibits excellent client service”
Chambers & Partners 2026
“Janine is meticulous and excels at distilling down key points to their essence, which makes her an exceptional talent. A powerful advocate”
Legal 500 2025
“Janine has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the law”
Chambers & Partners 2025
“She’s got a great eye for detail and really good judgement”
Chambers & Partners 2025
“Nothing fazes her and she is probably one of the hardest working members of the Family Bar”
Chambers & Partners 2025
“Janine is very astute, shows good attention to detail and has excellent client care skills”
Chambers & Partners 2024
  • LL.M Law, Bristol University, Distinction (1st in year)
  • LL.B Law, Bristol University
  • BPTC, Kaplan Law School
  • Award for Best Performance on MSc and LL.M programmes in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at Bristol University 
  • Lord Justice Holker Award, Gray’s Inn
  • Family Law Bar Association
  • Gray’s Inn

Seminars

Janine delivers numerous lectures and seminars to the legal profession. In recent years this has included being invited to:

  • deliver in-house seminars to leading firms of solicitors
  • deliver training to the judiciary on Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial property at the Judicial College
  • deliver finance Cases Review at the Class Legal Financial Remedies Conference 2025

Lewis Marks KC and Janine McGuigan successfully represented the husband in financial remedy proceedings resulting in an award to the wife which represented 37.9% of the total assets.

Janine is also a contributing author to the Dictionary of Financial Remedies

Janine is a classically trained Soprano and a performance-arts enthusiast. She can still, on occasion, be spotted performing locally in London when time allows.

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