Ellie Scott

Associate

Ellie Scott

Associate

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Ellie is an associate in the Guildford family team. She acts for clients on a wide range of family law issues including divorce, financial settlements, private children matters, and domestic abuse. Ellie has also assisted with international and domestic surrogacy cases.

She is a member of Resolution, an organisation for family lawyers and other professionals committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes. Ellie has experience in assisting clients through alternative dispute resolution methods, including mediation and arbitration.

I provide advice to clients on all aspects of family law and seek to balance clear, practical guidance with an empathetic and understanding approach. I am a strong advocate of non-court dispute resolution and seek to resolve matters constructively and amicably.

Ellie Scott, Associate

Ellie joined the firm in 2018 and previously spent a year and a half with the family team in Guildford as a paralegal, before starting her training contract with the firm in September 2023. She qualified as a solicitor in September 2025. Since qualifying Ellie has assisted clients with a broad spectrum of matters, including financial remedies and child arrangements. Prior to this she graduated from the University of Bristol with a law degree and obtained a distinction in the Legal Practice Course at BPP University Law School.

Recent work highlights

Financial remedy proceedings

Assisting on a high value case with complex factors, including a family business in which arguments arose relating to the matrimonialisation of certain assets, and reaching an advantageous settlement outside of court at a private financial dispute resolution hearing.

Children matters

Acting in a range of private children matters, including child arrangement disputes where there were allegations of domestic abuse and which involved the local authority.

International surrogacy

Assisting on numerous international surrogacy cases for intended parents, including where alternative routes to legal parentage, such as adoption, had to be explored because the criteria for obtaining a parental order in England were not satisfied.

Non-court dispute resolution

Supporting on a financial matter involving a client seeking to vary a school fees order, which proceeded to a successful arbitration.

What people are saying

In my view this is the strongest family law team in Surrey… The firm recognises the need for out of court dispute resolution and the breadth of the team allows the right plan for each client to be established.

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