Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Call: 2019
Damian specialises in disputes about children and finances following relationship breakdown. He regularly advises and represents clients in both children and financial remedy proceedings.
Damian routinely acts in cases turning on contested factual and expert evidence and involving difficult findings of fact. Damian has been successful in bringing and challenging serious allegations such as rape and sexual assault, historical physical and sexual abuse, and serious non-accidental injuries, including head injuries. In his first three years of practice Damian undertook criminal trials in the Crown Court where he honed his abilities as a witness handler.
Damian is known for taking a hands-on approach to the preparation of his cases; he works closely with his professional client to provide careful assistance throughout the proceedings.
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Email: clerks@harcourtchambers.co.uk
Damian routinely acts for parents in complex private law disputes. He has had particular success in cases involving allegations of alienating behaviours and domestic abuse. Damian has experience dealing with cases involving:
The High Court clarifies the law and procedure to be followed when an accredited journalist applies for disclosure and permission to publish documents from private proceedings which they did not attend.
Damian successfully argued for a mother that her child should be returned to her care notwithstanding findings of parental alienation having previously been made against her. The father, children’s guardian, and expert psychologist all opposed the application.
Damian routinely acts for parties in financial remedy cases and has experience of claims under Part III of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, and the Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. Damian is often instructed to represent clients in both their children and financial remedy applications.
Damian has experience in the following areas:
Damian has extensive experience of public law cases and often represents London local authorities in complex care proceedings, either as sole counsel or with leading counsel. Damian has a particular interest in cases involving applications to authorise the deprivation of a child’s liberty. He has experience in the following areas:
Damian Broadbent successfully represented a respondent mother in the Court of Appeal.
Damian Broadbent, instructed by Debbie Wright of Griffiths Robertson Solicitors, represented the first respondent mother in Re S (Foster Care or Placement for Adoption) [2026] EWCA Civ 47.
The local…
Damian Broadbent, instructed by Lucy Rodgers and Chloe Abbott of Taylor Emmet Solicitors, appeared in Bradley v CM & Ors [2026] EWHC 125 (Fam).
The case concerned an application by an…
Damian Broadbent, instructed by Taylor Emmet, represented the First Respondent Mother in C (A Child) [2025] EWFC 47 (B); a final hearing of long-running private law proceedings concerning 12 year-old child,…