Eleanor Harris
Chambers ranked in UK Bar 2025
Leading Junior – Legal 500 Uk 2025

Eleanor Harris

Call: 2000

Routinely acts in a range of matrimonial finance matters including order enforcements. Harris often handles maintenance disputes and private FDRs. She demonstrates further abilities in valuation-related mandates and financial remedy cases involving non-disclosure.

Strengths:

“Eleanor Harris is calm with clients and offers clear advice. She looks at the bigger picture but will also do everything possible to achieve good outcomes.”

“Her strength lies in her attention to detail and the thoroughness with which she approaches cases. She provides accurate, pragmatic, commercial and sensible advice.”

Chambers and Partners 2022

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Practice

Eleanor has a busy practice specialising in complex financial disputes, covering all financial remedy matters, nuptial agreements, Schedule 1 applications and financial relief after an overseas divorce, private law children disputes and matters relating to divorce and jurisdiction all of which frequently have an international dimension. She is regularly instructed in cases involving corporate and trust structures. Eleanor is commended for her pragmatic and commercial advice, thorough case preparation, swift assimilation of information, attention to detail and incisive advocacy; she works as a team with her client and solicitor to achieve the best result, whether that is through negotiation or contested litigation.

Alongside her practice as a barrister, she is an Arbitrator under both the IFLA Children Scheme and Financial Scheme and conducts private FDRs and Early Neutral Evaluation in children matters as the evaluator.

Eleanor sits as a Recorder in the Family Court on the South Eastern Circuit.

Routinely acts in a range of matrimonial finance matters including order enforcements. Harris often handles maintenance disputes and private FDRs. She demonstrates further abilities in valuation-related mandates and financial remedy cases involving non-disclosure.

Strengths:

“Eleanor Harris is calm with clients and offers clear advice. She looks at the bigger picture but will also do everything possible to achieve good outcomes.”

“Her strength lies in her attention to detail and the thoroughness with which she approaches cases. She provides accurate, pragmatic, commercial and sensible advice.”

Chambers and Partners 2022

Practice

Eleanor has a busy practice specialising in complex financial disputes, covering all financial remedy matters, nuptial agreements, Schedule 1 applications and financial relief after an overseas divorce, private law children disputes and matters relating to divorce and jurisdiction all of which frequently have an international dimension. She is regularly instructed in cases involving corporate and trust structures. Eleanor is commended for her pragmatic and commercial advice, thorough case preparation, swift assimilation of information, attention to detail and incisive advocacy; she works as a team with her client and solicitor to achieve the best result, whether that is through negotiation or contested litigation.

Alongside her practice as a barrister, she is an Arbitrator under both the IFLA Children Scheme and Financial Scheme and conducts private FDRs and Early Neutral Evaluation in children matters as the evaluator.

Eleanor sits as a Recorder in the Family Court on the South Eastern Circuit.

  • Financial remedies
  • Cohabitation
  • Private law children
  • Jurisdiction Claims After Foreign Divorce
  • Nuptial Agreements

  • HD v WB [2023] EWFC 2
  • DP v EP (Conduct; Economic Abuse; Needs) [2023] EWFC 6
  • Agbaje v Agbaje [2010] UKSC 13
  • Co v Co (Ancillary relief: Pre-marriage cohabitation) [2004] EWHC 287 (Fam)

Eleanor is the author of the chapter on financial relief after an overseas divorce in the most recent edition of Rayden & Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters.

  • Middle Temple
  • Family Law Bar Association
  • Affiliate member of Resolution
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Recorder, Family, South Eastern Circuit

  • MA History, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Law, City University
  • Benefactor’s Scholar, Middle Temple

“Eleanor has an excellent brain and provides good strategy”
“Eleanor is technically superior. She is user-friendly and an absolute superstar to work alongside. She has a warm manner with clients and gives sensible and practice advice”
Chambers and Partners 2024

“Eleanor Harris is calm with clients and offers clear advice. She looks at the bigger picture but will also do everything possible to achieve good outcomes.”
“Her strength lies in her attention to detail and the thoroughness with which she approaches cases. She provides accurate, pragmatic, commercial and sensible advice.”
Chambers and Partners 2022