Roxane is a brilliant lawyer, whose written work is clever, persuasive, and always carefully prepared. She has a sharp, tactical mind and is generally two or three steps ahead of her opponent.
External Conferences
TL4 HNW Divorce Litigation – 5th Annual Flagship Conference
Thursday 20 November 2025
London
Speakers:
Jonathan Hilliard KC | Roxane Reiser
Practice overview
Roxane’s practice covers a wide range of trusts and estates disputes, with a particular emphasis on trusts issues in the divorce context. Many of her cases have Swiss elements. Roxane was called to the Geneva Bar in 2018 and is recognised as a “go to” junior for cross-border disputes involving Switzerland.
Roxane is consistently ranked in Chambers & Partners. She is described as a “brilliant lawyer” with a “sharp tactical mind” who is “excellent at cases involving international jurisdictions” (Chambers & Partners 2025). It is said that “she knows when to apply a light touch and when to come down with a hammer, both in and out of the courtroom.” (Chambers & Partners 2024). She is commended for her “prodigious work ethic”, “composed manner and cool intellect” (Legal 500 2024). She is “an asset to a legal team” (Legal 500 2025).
Roxane has been identified as a ‘Rising Star’ by Legal 500 2025. She featured in the 2024 Citywealth Top 100 International Power Women Leaders list. She was shortlisted International Family Lawyer of the Year and Family Law Junior Barrister of the Year at the Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards in 2021.
Roxane is fluent in French and German. She has a good command of Spanish.
Roxane's expertise
Trusts, probate and estates: contentious
Roxane’s recent notable work includes:
- Advising on financial remedy claims in Switzerland and England, remedies to set aside dispositions to offshore trustees and injunctive relief (assets c. £40m).
- JK v LM [2024] EWHC 1442 (Fam) – Successful High Court application for a freezing order, restriction and legal services order in a Schedule 1 case involving a Czech multimillion-pound trust and dispositions to third parties.
- Advising a trust beneficiary in respect of a large trust restructuring (assets c. £65m) and its impact on the beneficiary’s spousal maintenance obligations under a pre-existing financial remedy order.
- Advising on a beneficiary spouse’s disclosure obligations in respect of offshore trust assets and trustees’ participation in financial remedy proceedings.
- Advising a trust beneficiary on will validity (proper execution, mental capacity and want of knowledge and approval) in the context of a multimillion-pound agricultural estate.
- Acting for the testamentary executors of a multimillion-pound estate in a will validity dispute involving valuable artwork and charitable trusts.
- Advising the mother of minor children in an Inheritance Act claim involving a pre-existing Schedule 1 order, a deed of covenant to make provision by will, and allegations of financial non-disclosure.
Before joining Chambers, Roxane was on secondment with Farrer & Co’s Contentious Trusts & Estates team, during which time she advised and assisted on a wide range of contentious matters, including cross-border trust disputes, removal of trustees and administrators, company strike off and contempt proceedings.
In 2020, Roxane was on secondment at wihtin the Family team at Payne Hicks Beach. She worked exclusively on the litigation between HRH Princess Haya of Jordan and her former husband, HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (Haya Bint Al Hussein v His Highness Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum [2021] EWFC 94), one of the largest divorce awards in British legal history.
Roxane is a brilliant lawyer, whose written work is clever, persuasive, and always carefully prepared. She has a sharp, tactical mind and is generally two or three steps ahead of her opponent.- Roxane deals with complex matters elegantly. She knows when to apply a light touch and when to come down with a hammer, both in and out of the courtroom.
- A highly pragmatic lawyer, who's excellent at cases involving international jurisdictions.
- Roxane is always brilliantly prepared. She combines this prodigious work ethic with a composed manner and cool intellect. She has a fantastic tactical brain.
- Roxane was methodical, well-spoken and someone who really held the judge's attention.
Trusts, probate and estates: contentious insights & events View all thought leadership View all events
External Conferences
7e Journée de Droit Patrimonial International
Tuesday 9 September 2025
University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandSpeakers:
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Roxane ReiserArticles
Supreme Court hands down judgment in Standish v Standish – implications for trusts in matrimonial finance work
Article by Joseph Steadman and Roxane Reiser, 23rd July 2025. To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. On 2 July 2025, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26. The purpose... Read more
By Joseph Steadman | Roxane Reiser
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Wednesday 23 July 2025News
‘Rising Star’ Roxane Reiser joins the specialist Trusts Group at Wilberforce
Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Roxane Reiser has joined Chambers from 10th March 2025. Roxane joins the trusts group to add to the growing number of specialists at Wilberforce that deal with trust issues in the divorce context. Roxane is... Read more
Monday 10 March 2025
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Roxane's expertise
Trusts, probate and estates: non-contentious
Much of Roxane’s non-contentious work concerns cross-border matters with Swiss elements. Roxane was called to the Geneva Bar in 2018. She regularly advises on the legal effect of Swiss judgments, marriage contracts and succession agreements in the context of broader litigation or succession planning in England. She also advises on issues of recognition and enforcement of English judgments in Switzerland, mirror orders, disclosure applications/letters of request and injunctive relief in Switzerland.
Roxane’s recent work in this area includes:
- Advising the wife on financial remedy claims in Switzerland and England, remedies to set aside dispositions to offshore trustees and available injunctive relief in both jurisdictions (assets c. £40m).
- Advising on the recognition and enforcement of a Swiss order for the sale of valuable artwork located in England.
- Advising on the legal status of a covenant to make financial provision upon death in an Anglo-Swiss succession dispute involving a Swiss succession agreement.
- Advising Swiss trustees on strike off and voluntary liquidation of an English limited company held in trust.
Roxane also advises on purely domestic matters such as the proper construction of trust instruments, the scope of trustees’ powers, applications for Beddoe relief and trust restructuring.
- Roxane is a brilliant lawyer, whose written work is clever, persuasive, and always carefully prepared. She has a sharp, tactical mind and is generally two or three steps ahead of her opponent.
- Roxane deals with complex matters elegantly. She knows when to apply a light touch and when to come down with a hammer, both in and out of the courtroom.
- A highly pragmatic lawyer, who's excellent at cases involving international jurisdictions.
- Roxane is always brilliantly prepared. She combines this prodigious work ethic with a composed manner and cool intellect. She has a fantastic tactical brain.
- Roxane was methodical, well-spoken and someone who really held the judge's attention.
Trusts, probate and estates: non-contentious insights & events View all thought leadership View all events
External Conferences
7e Journée de Droit Patrimonial International
Tuesday 9 September 2025
University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandSpeakers:
View more
Roxane ReiserArticles
Supreme Court hands down judgment in Standish v Standish – implications for trusts in matrimonial finance work
Article by Joseph Steadman and Roxane Reiser, 23rd July 2025. To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. On 2 July 2025, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26. The purpose... Read more
By Joseph Steadman | Roxane Reiser
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Wednesday 23 July 2025News
‘Rising Star’ Roxane Reiser joins the specialist Trusts Group at Wilberforce
Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Roxane Reiser has joined Chambers from 10th March 2025. Roxane joins the trusts group to add to the growing number of specialists at Wilberforce that deal with trust issues in the divorce context. Roxane is... Read more
Monday 10 March 2025
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Roxane's Details
Education
University of Oxford, St. Catherine’s College (2011-2015)
- BA Jurisprudence, Law and German Law, (First Class Honours)
- David Blank Scholarship (St. Catherine’s College)
New York University School of Law (2015-16)
- L.L.M (international litigation, conflicts of law and tax)
BPTC, BPP Law School (2016-17)
Appointments and Memberships
- Inner Temple
- Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA)
- International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)
- Association des Juristes Franco-Britanniques
Publications
- February 2025 – “Divergent evolution: Inheritance Act 1975 legal costs in light of Hirachand v Hirachand and Jassal v Shah”, Law Society PS Magazine, with Rowan Cope
- 2020-2025 – International Update, Family Affairs Magazine (Family Law Bar Association)
- July 2024 – “Proving Foreign Law in Financial Remedy Proceedings”, Financial Remedies Journal
- September 2022 – International Family Law Journal, issue 4, “Dealing with Swiss assets in financial remedy proceedings”
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