Olivia Piercy

Spear’s Review

Hunters partner Olivia Piercy, unusually in private client family law, is a domestic abuse specialist. 

‘The high-net-worth world is squeamish about domestic abuse, but times are changing,’ she says. ’The women who are in these situations – I do have some male clients as well – they’re often wealthy and they’ve been told for years, “Don’t talk about that. Keep it quiet.” But Me Too has happened; the world has changed dramatically. 

‘These women feel their solicitors aren’t listening to them, and they feel unheard, not understood. They need a voice.’

Piercy has a great deal of experience in children cases, including abduction and cross-border cases, as well as complex money matters and financial abuse. She sits on Resolution’s domestic abuse committee and heads Resolution’s economic abuse working party.

Adviser Profile

Olivia is a Partner in Hunters’ family department, praised for her empathetic yet tactical approach in both the child and financial aspects of family breakdown. She is renowned for her expertise in domestic violence, economic abuse and coercive/controlling behaviour. She has a wealth of experience in complex children law cases including relocation, child abduction and child protection. 

Olivia frequently acts on complex cases involving novel legal points; she has run several cases to the Supreme Court on behalf of parents, children and charities. Olivia set up and chairs Resolution’s Economic Abuse Working Party, and sits on Resolution’s Domestic Abuse Committee and Mr Justice Cobb’s Private Law Working Group.