Katherine Kelsey MCIArb

“Katherine is extremely well-respected for her wise counsel, client care skills and exceptional advocacy.” – Chambers & Partners 2025 (Finance)

“A complex financial remedies and children specialist, Katherine is always easy to work with and an absolute fount of knowledge on Schedule 1 issues.” Chambers & Partners, 2025 (Finance)

“A KC in waiting, who is great with the client and clear and strategic in her thinking. She is able to manage the client in highly emotive situations and is very much a go-to for children.” – Chambers & Partners 2025 (Children)

“Katherine is calm, authoritative, sensitive to the nuances of a case and a very safe pair of judicial hands. She’s very highly regarded as one of the best.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025 (Private FDR)

“Katherine has a really nice manner about her, coming across as judicial but also very accessible. She knows the case inside-out and makes it easy to settle. Her judgement is impeccable.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025 (Private FDR)

“Katherine is fantastic. She brings clients together and achieves resolution even when presiding over the most polarised of disputes.” – Chambers & Partners, 2025 (Private FDR)

‘Katherine is strategic and persuasive. She can command the courtroom.’ – Legal 500, 2025 (Children)

‘Katherine is incredibly thorough. Her preparation is always immaculate, and she has fabulous judgement.’ – Legal 500, 2025 (Finance)

‘Katherine is a good private FDR judge, with an air of calm authority. Her judgement is spot-on.’ – Legal 500, 2025 (ADR)

‘Katherine is a complete breath of fresh air. Her analysis and ability to distil complex issues into straightforward and practical advice is second to none. She has the ear of the court and clients really respect and trust her, even when she’s delivering advice they do not like.’ – Chambers & Partners, 2024

‘She’s very assured and brings real colour and empathy to her presentation.”…“Katherine is always immaculately prepared and gives sage, measured and clear advice.’ – Chambers & Partners, 2024

“Very accommodating, she helped us to resolve everything.”…“Sensible and effective.”…“She was thorough, calm and very clear, and she sat late. Very accommodating, she helped us to resolve everything.” Chambers and Partners, 2024

“A fabulous evaluator, who puts vast amounts of work into every case. You know immediately from the way the FDR starts that she understands every aspect of the case. Katherine puts a huge amount of thought and effort into everything she does and it shows.” Chambers and Partners, 2024

‘Katherine is exceptional at both children and money work. She is very user-friendly and loved by solicitors. She provides early, clear and strategic advice.’ – Legal 500, 2024 – Leading Junior

‘Katherine is an incredibly safe pair of hands. She delivers realistic, focused and pertinent advice and exudes confidence putting the most anxious client at ease.’ – Legal 500, 2024 – Leading Junior

“Absolutely excellent to work with. she’s very user-friendly, very diligent and a great advocate. She has great client handling skills and fights her points well.” “Katherine Kelsey has incredibly good judgement. She’s really technically skillful and easy to deal with.” – Chambers & Partners, 2023

Katherine gave robust and sound tactical advice on a leave to remove case. She is well organised, her reasoning is sound, and she is very persuasive on her feet.’ – Legal 500, 2023: Leading Junior

‘Katherine is meticulous in her preparation and she has excellent judgement. Her advice is strategic and pragmatic. She is exceptional with clients, capable of dealing with sensitive issues with empathy whilst also skillfully providing realistic advice where appropriate. Her advocacy is superb. She persuasively advances arguments in a concise yet firm manner – clients absolutely know she is fighting their corner.’ – Legal 500, 2023: Leading Junior

‘Katherine is a calm and reassuring presence to clients, and never less than completely prepared, combined with persuasive and authoritative advocacy in court. She will fight her clients corner but also give them realistic advice where necessary. Katherine is absolute class act.’  – Legal 500, 2022: Leading Junior in Children Law

‘Katherine is a fierce, razor-sharp advocate, who provides pragmatic advice that resonates with clients.’ – Legal 500, 2022: Leading Junior in Financial Remedy

“Katherine is direct and decisive while remaining approachable to clients and solicitors. Her advice and strategy is always absolutely clear and on point.” “Intelligent and charming with a confident presence in court, she gives clients sensible and pragmatic advice.” – Chambers & Partners, 2021

‘She has fantastic judgement, is excellent on children as well as financial remedy cases. Clients feel that they are in fantastic hands, and she really fights their cause, while at the same time is pragmatic, good at judging her tribunal and aims to settle cases if she can.’ – Legal 500, 2021: Leading Junior in Financial Remedy

Very thorough, committed, organised. A joy to instruct.’ – Legal 500 2021: Leading Junior in Children Law

“She’s excellent with tricky finance cases and her advocacy is very engaging. At all times she’s completely unflappable.” Chambers & Partners 2020: Leading Junior in Matrimonial Finance & Children

“Well prepared, tenacious and practical – she has it all.” Chambers & Partners 2020: Leading Junior in Matrimonial Finance & Children

“Katherine has a razor-sharp intellect and is tactically brilliant. She is truly empathetic and instantly gains the trust of her clients. Her manner is firm, calm and reassuring; everything someone in the midst of a difficult family dispute needs.” Chambers & Partners, 2019

‘Has a great ability to build rapport with clients in conference; is a forceful and compassionate advocate ’ – Legal 500 2019: Leading Junior in Children Law

‘Excellent with tricky finances cases; her advocacy is very engaging and she is completely unflappable’ Legal 500 2019: Leading Junior in Financial Remedy

“She is brilliant with clients…A class act” The Legal 500, 2018

‘…We always end up getting what we want. She just has the knack of convincing the other party and the court that our approach is correct.’- Chambers & Partners, 2018

‘She is immensely user-friendly and a very sound family lawyer whose all-round skills belie her relatively low level of call. She produces first-class paperwork and will go far.’ – Chambers & Partners, 2017

‘Her preparation is excellent, which gives the client great confidence… She is experienced and has a calm, authoritative manner greatly appreciated by clients.’ – Legal 500, 2017

‘She is extremely thorough in her preparation and able to manage client expectations well…Great at putting clients at ease.’ – Legal 500, 2016