Direct Access Barrister
Stephanie Coker
Direct Access Barrister
Stephanie Coker
Stephanie practices exclusively in family law and is a qualified mediator.
Prior to joining the Bar, Stephanie worked at leading law firms in which she gained a wealth of experience in contentious and non-contentious property matters. Stephanie prides herself in her personability and ability to give clear and commercially minded advice to clients. She also accepts instructions direct from the public under the Direct Access Scheme.
In addition to her practice, Stephanie has acted as an Associate Lecturer at Kent Law School where her teaching responsibilities spanned across Land Law, Family Law, and Foundations of Property.
Stephanie is committed to social justice and pro bono work. She recently completed the Advocate “25 for 25” challenge providing over 25 hours of pro bono advice and representation in the last year. Outside of practice, she is a blogger and assists with preparing case summaries for the Financial Remedies Journal.
Area of Law
Family
Stephanie has a busy financial remedies practice dealing with applications under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 and Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989. She regularly accepts instructions in matters involving businesses, pensions, non-matrimonial property, disclosure issues, enforcement and variation applications and interim remedies. She is very knowledgable in this area of law and is available to provide advice and representing from the First Appointment to Final Hearings.
Stephanie’s background in property and understanding of the CPR makes her well suited to advising and attending on claims concerning the Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and Proprietary Estoppel between unmarried couples. She has a busy paper practice which involves drafting pleadings in contested TOLATA claims, witness statements and opinions. She has successfully represented clients at all stages from initial advice to final hearings.
Stephanie represents parents in private children disputes. Many of these applications involve parallel Family Law Act applications. She is confident in dealing with matters involving issues of sexual abuse, mental health, parental alienation, and intractable disputes. She also has experience in representing clients in multi-day fact-finding hearings.
Property
Cohabitee Disputes (TOLATA)
Stephanie’s background in property and understanding of the CPR makes her well suited to advising and attending on claims concerning the Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and Proprietary Estoppel. She has a busy paper practice which involves drafting pleadings in contested TOLATA claims, witness statements and opinions. She has successfully represented clients at all stages from initial advice to final hearings.
What sort of work do I do?
Family law - financial remedies following divorce, disputes between unmarried couples upon separation and private children.
Who do I work for?
Professional and Lay clients (parents, spouses, individuals).