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 requestPractice 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
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Principal Reporter v K [2010] UKSC 56
Human rights; Article 8; child law; family law
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Midlothian Council Petitioners [2012] CSOH 63
Child law; permanance order
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Doogan and Wood v GGCHB [2012] CSOH 32 [2013] CSIH36 [2014] UKSC 68
Judicial review; human rights; Article 9
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Petition of JP v FM (Child Abduction) 2014 CSIH 19
Decision of the Inner House. Counsel was for the reclaimer.
Areas of Practice
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."

