Welcome Christian Durham Hall
We are delighted to welcome Family barrister Christian Durham Hall to Chambers. Christian’s main focus is on private family law cases including financial remedy,...
Senior Clerk - Family and Court of Protection
Assistant Senior Clerk (Matrimonial Finance)
Family Clerk
Assistant Senior Clerk (Children)
Family Clerk
“Recommended expert.”
Legal 500, 2025
“Christian is everything you want when instructing a barrister. He is great with clients, his knowledge of the law is unrivalled, and he is an impressive advocate.”
Legal 500, 2023
Christian is an all-round family law specialist, regularly appearing in the Family and High Court across the country. Christian’s main focus is on private family law cases including financial remedy, private children disputes, and TOLATA cases where he has a wealth of experience. He also has a considerable track record in complex public children cases.
Christian is Public Access accredited.
Before being called to the Bar, Christian worked in academic research relating to mental health problems, receiving a multi-million pound EU grant and also in Local Government policy for the Welsh Assembly.
Matrimonial finance makes up a considerable part of Christian’s practice.
Christian is regularly instructed in complex financial remedy proceedings at all stages of the case, with a particular emphasis on inherited wealth, dissipation of assets, conduct issues, cases involving trusts, extensive property portfolios, company accounts and more.
Christian is available to expeditiously undertake drafting and provide urgent advice on all aspects of financial remedy and trust cases.
Christian also regularly represents clients within TOLATA proceedings, which compliments his expertise in the matrimonial finance arena. Christian has a particular specialism in cases involving a challenge to beneficial interests (constructing trusts), resulting trusts, declaration of trusts and proprietary estoppel. This is particularly relevant as Christian has also successfully argued these equitable doctrines for many intervenors in financial remedy cases.
Christian has a wealth of experience and is a specialist in all areas of private and public children cases.
He is regularly instructed in private children cases such as:
Christian has a wealth of experience in complex public children proceedings involving:
In light of Christian’s wealth of experience in financial remedy proceedings and his commitment to a collaborative and resolution approach to cases; he welcomes instructions to conduct and represent parties at private FDR hearings.
Christian initially studied History, achieving a BA (Hons), and then went on to obtain a Postgraduate Diploma in Law, LL.M (Distinction), Bar Vocational Course.
He was awarded the Shakespeare Memorial Scholarship by Grays Inn, and the Lord Williams of Mostyn Advocacy Award by Cardiff University.
He was also a Repton School Scholar.
He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Grays Inn in 2009.