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Overview
Victoria advises clients on all aspects of family law arising from the breakdown of marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation, including pre/post nuptial agreements. Victoria also has extensive experience with private law children matters, including residence, contact disputes and leave to remove applications (both international and domestic).
- BS v CL [2025] EWFC 215
- Rt Hon The Countess Karen Anne Spencer v Rt Hon Ninth Earl Spencer, Charles Edwards Maurice Spencer [2025] EWFC 431
- Helliwell v Entwistle [2025] EWCA Civ 1071 – costs
- Helliwell v Entwistle [2025] EWCA Civ 1055
- Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26
- Helliwell v Entwistle [2024] EWHC 1298
- Helliwell v Entwistle [2024] EWHC 740
- Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 567
- ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 128
- MB v EB [2019] EWHC 3676 (Fam)
- Hammoud v Al Zawawi [2019] EWHC 697 (Fam)
Awards & Accolades
The Spear’s 500 2026 and Spear’s Family Lawyers Index 2026: Victoria is ranked “Top Recommended” with a focus on complex financial and international disputes.
‘I aim to steer clients through the choppiest of waters to a safe haven in a storm,’ Payne Hicks Beach partner Victoria Hingston says. ‘They find me a reassuring presence – empathetic, but objective when it matters most.’
Victoria Hingston works across a wide spectrum of family law issues, including cohabitation, pre and post nuptial agreements, international children work and leave-to-remove applications. She often takes on international clients whose assets are spread across different countries, ‘but then I’ll have other [occasions] where all of my clients’ assets are in the UK’, she says.
‘The reason I like doing this job is because I like getting people through a very difficult time in their life. Fiona Shackleton always says that it’s divorce, not death – and she’s right. So you’ve got to wrap yourself around your client and steer them through.’
The Legal 500 UK 2026: Victoria is ranked as a “Next Generation Partner’ for Family: Divorce and Financial Remedy and highlighted for advising on family issues involving complex trust structures and non-disclosure issues.
“Victoria Hingston cares deeply about her cases, has a brilliant rapport with clients and has calm good judgment.”
The Legal 500 UK 2025: Victoria is recommended as a “Key Lawyer” in the category of Family Law.
Spear’s Family Lawyers Index 2025: Victoria is ranked “Top Recommended” with a focus on complex financial and international disputes.
“Victoria Hingston works across a wide spectrum of family law issues, including cohabitation, pre and postnuptial agreements, international children work and leave-to-remove applications. She often takes on international clients whose assets are spread across different countries, ‘but then I’ll have other [occasions] where all of my clients’ assets are in the UK’, she says.”
Spear’s 500 2025: Victoria is ranked as “Top Recommended” with a focus on ‘pre- and post nuptial agreements.
Tatler Address Book 2025: Victoria is named as an expert family lawyer in the advisory known as the definitive guide for high net worth individuals.
Spear’s Family Lawyers Index 2024: Victoria is ranked “Top Recommended”.
“Victoria Hingston – new partner and absolutely the future of the firm. When Baroness Shackleton retires, Victoria is her natural successor.” The Legal 500 UK 2022
