Practice Profile
Niki specialises exclusively in family work, almost entirely financial remedies. Her practice generally covers high asset and income cases, and matters that contain complex legal or factual issues, often with an international dimension.
She also ‘sits’ as a private judge conducting private FDRs.
She has developed significant experience and expertise in negotiating and drafting pre-nuptial agreements.
She also has experience of cases concerning issues as to the validity of marriage and divorce, especially where there is an international element.
Her preparation is meticulous with great attention to detail, but she is also able to provide sound commercial and pragmatic solutions. She is regarded as having excellent judgment and clients feel instantly comfortable and confident with her.
Most of her work reaches resolution by settlement following negotiation but in court she is highly persuasive and can be tenacious when necessary.
Testimonials
"Niki is a go-to barrister. She is so knowledgeable and can deliver advice to clients in a straightforward and considerate way. Her manner with clients is first-class. She changes her approach depending on the client’s needs. Her advice is always spot on, and she gives pragmatic and realistic advice."
"Niki has a sharp legal mind and is a truly formidable advocate. She can settle the most seemingly unsettleable cases as she brings a creative and tenacious approach in order to find new ways around roadblocks. Charming and personable, she has client care skills that are second to none."
"Niki is a charismatic, engaging and brilliant barrister. She very quickly gets on top of a case and her advocacy is brilliant. Niki’s assessment of the merits of a case is always spot-on and her preparation is meticulous."
"Niki Langridge is immensely strong as an advocate and as a negotiator. She is very practical and has a razor-sharp intellect."
"Very good with complicated finance and pensions cases, she's a fine advocate, who's also firm when negotiating with the other side. She's forceful but calm at the same time and puts her arguments out strongly but clearly. Judges understand her position and thinking."
" Niki Langridge is praised for her ‘creative and tenacious advocacy, incredible attention to detail, and encyclopaedic knowledge’ and handles cases involving complex factual or legal elements, business assets, and third-party interests.
‘Niki is a standout expert in her field. She is insightful and focuses on what really matters to a client. She strategizes to find a way through even the most muddiest of waters. She puts clients at ease within minutes of meeting her and has a remarkable legal mind and recall for detail. She gives realistic and firm advice from an early stage in a case.’"
‘Niki is a standout expert in her field. She is insightful and focuses on what really matters to a client. She strategizes to find a way through even the most muddiest of waters. She puts clients at ease within minutes of meeting her and has a remarkable legal mind and recall for detail. She gives realistic and firm advice from an early stage in a case.’"
""Niki Langridge is a force to be reckoned with as an opponent. She's charming, easy to get on with and technically able.""
""Very good with complicated finance and pensions cases, she's a fine advocate, who's also firm when negotiating with the other side. She's forceful but calm at the same time and puts her arguments out strongly but clearly. Judges understand her position and thinking.""
"Good at putting clients at ease when they feel vulnerable or unsure about how the case will turn out. She excels at taking them through the process, highlighting the pros and cons and bringing them solutions." "Niki goes the extra mile and looks into every single detail." "She is analytical, well prepared and someone who gets judges on her side."
"A tremendous, tenacious advocate, who is formidable in the courtroom. Her meticulous approach and encyclopaedic legal knowledge instils confidence in clients."
"She is exceptionally good on client care and her ability to grasp the facts of a case is unparalleled - she appears to have a photographic memory."
"She has real authority when negotiating and impresses judges."
"She knows every inch of her instructions and associated papers, placing the clients at immediate ease. She is excellent with the clients whatever their age, ethnicity or occupation."
"Niki Langridge is a fantastic advocate and negotiator who has real attention to detail." "You need someone practical, approachable and sensible to provide advice and that's what Niki represents."
"Excellent for ancillary relief/financial remedy proceedings."
"Exceptionally good with clients, and a force to be reckoned with."
"Niki has a very fine legal mind, is very sharp-witted and is highly engaging. She has an excellent memory and superb attention to detail."
"Phenomenally bright."
"Phenomenally bright, she can take in and retain a phenomenal amount of financial detail very quickly. She's extremely articulate, very clever and always immensely well prepared."
"She has excellent client care skills and a razor-sharp brain."
"Exclusively practises in the matrimonial finance sphere, handling moderate to high net worth financial remedy cases, many of which have fact-finding or tax issues attached to them. She is additionally a qualified collaborative counsel and mediator, offering services in ADR. "
"She's absolutely brilliant at big money cases and is on the ball in complex work. She's an excellent advocate and negotiator and her settlement success rate is second to none."
"She is formidable in court and gets to grips with issues with total ease."
"A fabulously accomplished advocate always willing to go the extra mile, she makes life for her solicitor so much easier." "Her ability to negotiate settlements with even the most entrenched parties consistently produces results."
"She is fabulous with clients and can easily change her style to that required for each client's individual needs."
"(Niki) practises principally in the field of international matrimonial finance, but also has extensive experience in private law children proceedings. She'll go the extra mile and I can always count on her. Clients really feel that she's fighting for them"
"A strong advocate"
"...Niki Langridge's tireless hard work"
"Simply superb, with an excellent client manner"
"(Niki) has a background in common law generally but practises solely in matrimonial finance. Her peers consistently praise her for her ability to instil confidence in her clients and negotiate a favourable outcome in contested proceedings."
Work Undertaken
- Family Finance
- Divorce & Matrimonial
- Dispute Resolution
Appointments & Memberships
Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
Notable Cases
G v E [2002] All ER (D) 449
Buchannan v Milton [1999] 2 FLR 844
Laird v Laird [1999] 1 FLR 791