Sarah Jane Lenihan
Sarah Jane Lenihan is a partner at Dawson Cornwell in the matrimonial team. She has far-reaching experience in family law, specialising in financial remedies advising individuals with substantial income and assets with complex international elements, and a variety of financial, business and trust structures.
Sarah Jane has a Family Law Advanced Accreditation from the Law Society, demonstrating her specialist knowledge in family law with a particular expertise in financial remedy and domestic abuse.
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Final Reflections on Standish: Was It All Worthwhile?
If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it – Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by,
OS v DT and Post-Separation Income: Fairness Trumps Inflexibility
In ‘Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?’ (5 February 2025), Nicholas Allen KC considered the potential impact of Waggott v Waggott [2018] 2 FLR 406 on the argument that income (or the assets or capital generated therefrom) earned in or referable to the first 12 months post-separation should
A Priceless Inheritance: Family Law, Open Justice and the Rule of Law
“The traditional law, that English justice must be administered openly in the face of all men, is an almost priceless inheritance” Earl Loreburn in Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417
Sir Nicholas Mostyn presented on this topic at the Bar Council’s law reform lecture 2025, on 2 July 2025.