Marie Clark KC

Year of Call
1996
Year of Silk
2024
Devil Masters
Andrew Smith KC
Ian Duguid KC

Contact

marieclark@amadvocates.co.uk Telephone number available from Clerks upon request

Practice Profile

Marie has extensive experience in all aspects of family law. She appears regularly in the Court of Session and the Inner House. She appeared alone when a junior successfully in the Supreme Court in Principal Reporter v K. She has a particular interest in financial provision cases including cases with an international element and complex jurisdictional matters. She is chair of the Arnot Manderson Family Law Group and Vice Chair of AFLA. She took silk in 2024.

Education & Professional Career to Date

Solicitor for 12 years, 6 of them at partner level

LLB; Diploma in Legal Practice

Appointments

  • Board of Examiners, Diploma in Legal Practice, Glasgow Graduate School of Law (1999–2003)

Selected Cases

Publications & Seminars

Commercial Debt in Europe: Recovery and Remedies, Richard Guy and Hugh Mercer, Sweet & Maxwell, 1991: consultant to authors

Speaker on Principal Reporter v K, Arnot Manderson Family Law Conference, April 2011

Chair, Arnot Manderson Family Law Conference, May 2012

Directories

Ranked in Chambers & Partners UK Guide 2024 for Family: Matrimonial Finance

Ranked in Chambers & Partners UK Guide 2023 for Family: Children also ranked in Family: Matrimonial Finance

"She has unparalleled people skills."
"Well attuned to the sensitivities of complex child-related and child abduction cases."