Deborah Eaton KC

“Deborah’s advocacy is unrivalled.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025

“A remarkable, powerful advocate who always has the ear of the judge.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025

“Undoubtedly one of the leading children silks practicing today.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025

“She is brilliant with clients, her judgment is first-rate and her cross-examination is unparalleled.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025

“Deborah operates at the very highest level of the Family Bar and is one of its great superstars.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025

“Deborah is phenomenal. She is tough, tenacious, insightful, thorough and devastatingly effective in her cross-examination. She gets straight to the heart of the issue, and can give legs to the weakest cases.” – Legal 500, 2025

“Deborah is a superstar of the Bar, and her experience and knowledge of children’s cases is unrivalled.” – Legal 500, 2025

“Her understanding of how people work is amazing, and she knows how to unlock the most difficult cases”. – Legal 500, 2025

“She always has the ear of the judge and knows how to pitch her advocacy to the circumstances.” – Legal 500, 2025

“Deborah’s judgement, advocacy, cross-examination, and strategic judgement in children cases are second to none.” – Chambers & Partners, 2024

“A superb trial advocate, who has an ability to command the courtroom very few other barristers have to the same degree.” – Chambers & Partners, 2024

“Strategic and practical, she’s a formidable advocate who is also empathetic and approachable.” – Chambers & Partners, 2024

“Deborah is an absolute powerhouse of authority, knowledge, tactical and strategical brilliance and a rock of reassurance for her clients. Her tactical and strategic positioning of her client’s cases to win is spot-on and unrivalled.” – Legal 500, 2024

“Deborah is a true powerhouse. She has a determination to achieve the client’s goals, robust, determined, knowledgeable, and a formidable advocate.” – Legal 500, 2024

“Deborah is always the one you want if you’re going into a fight. Always well prepared, she provides great advice to clients in high-pressure situations.” – Chambers & Partners, 2023

“Deborah Eaton is pre-eminent in her field. Her insight is incredible and she has a strategic mindset. In cross-examination very few come close to her.” – Chambers & Partners, 2023

‘Deborah is in a league of her own. She is creative, strategic and fabulous with children cases. She is a superstar who makes the ultimate difference to a case.’ – Legal 500, 2023

‘Deborah is the go-to barrister for private law children cases. Her skill, knowledge and experience are unrivalled at the family law Bar. She remains absolutely at the top of her game. Her cross-examination is rigorous although always delivered with elegance and charm. She is truly superb.’ – Legal 500, 2023

“A phenomenal advocate whose clients get the best standard of advice due to her wealth of experience.” “She argues points robustly but also works collaboratively.” “Deborah Eaton is an outstanding QC and the number-one choice for complex children work. She combines empathy with ruthless advocacy skills.” – Chambers & Partners, 2022

‘Deborah is in a Super League of barristers. She is a powerhouse within the profession, with a fearsome reputation. She is insightful in her approach to cases and adopts a strategic approach from the outset. Clients love her. She is fabulous. ’ – Legal 500, 2022

‘A powerhouse silk in the profession. She is insightful in her approach to cases and adopts a strategic approach from the outset. ’ – Legal 500, 2022

“She is sympathetic to the clients’ situation but gives them firm advice. Judges listen to her.” – Chambers & Partners, 2021

‘superb individual’… ‘in a league of her own’… – Legal 500, 2021

‘Is extraordinarily authoritative, with a fearsome reputation. She is unsurpassed in court and her advocacy is a joy to listen to. Her cross-examination is ferocious. She has fabulous client skills.’ – Legal 500, 2021

‘A top drawer gold-plated professional.’ – Legal 500, 2021

‘brilliant strategist and plan executioner’ 2020 Spear’s Family Law Index

“A wonderful advocate who has the respect of all judges. Her most obvious strength is the quality of her powerful, persuasive and forceful submissions in court, but she is also able to display subtlety, sensitivity and guile, particularly in cross-examination. Clients adore her and when she is on your side you have the best possible chance of being successful.”  – Chambers & Partners, 2020

“A leading children’s silk, who is head and shoulders above her competitors in terms of her instinctive advocacy, her ability to read a tribunal and her ability to convey a client’s wishes and feelings in the most effective manner in court. She is top-notch.”  Chambers & Partners, 2020

‘ Her advocacy skills are quite simply second to none – she manages to quash the opposition in an elegant fashion. ’ Legal 500 2020

‘ A fighter who brings lots of emotional intelligence to her cases. ’ Legal 500 2020

‘There’s no one who can hold a candle to Deborah. She’s a mistress of strategy, who plays the long game. She handles things with such a perfectly pitched degree of empathy.” – Chambers & Partners 2019

‘Judges really take note of what she says. She is a phenomenal advocate.’ Legal 500 2018

‘Deborah Eaton is absolutely on top of her game when it comes to relocation and the really hard children matters. In a league of her own, she makes law because she pushes and completely absorbs every tiny detail of a case. She’s a clients’ champion and not someone you’d want to be cross-examined by.’ Chambers & Partners 2018

‘a class of her own. There is no one with a greater court presence and she is the best cross-examiner in children proceedings. She is the go-to barrister for children.’

‘outstanding’ ‘brilliant’ ‘fantastic at both finance and children work’ ‘brings a rigidity of purpose to her cases few can match’

‘a splendid silk, she handles both finance and children work and is known for her thoroughness, brilliant preparation and unsurpassed advocacy’

‘has a comprehensive understanding of both money and children work and a robust advocacy style’

‘a magnet for the heavyweight cases, a cracking good lawyer and supportive to boot’

‘you rarely find a barrister who works as hard as she does and who fights her client’s corner harder’

‘hugely experienced and knowledgeable… the primus inter pares of private children work’