Simon Burge

Partner
Contact details

023 8085 7088

Simon is knowledgeable, kind, keen to mediate and is able to deal with complex financial issues.

Chambers and Partners, 2025

Simon is an experienced family law practitioner specialising in high net value family cases. He is also HM Deputy Coroner for Hampshire (Central) and Nottinghamshire.

Main areas of practice

His main areas of practice include divorce, separation agreements, pre-nuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements, ancillary relief, cohabitation agreements, maintenance, lump sum, property adjustment and pension sharing orders. He also advises on domestic violence injunctions, issues surrounding the enforcement and variation of financial orders, negotiating financial settlements and drafting consent orders, advising in relation to TOLATA and Schedule 1 Children Act claims.

Clients

Simon’s clients include high net worth individuals who are experiencing relationship breakdown.

 

Expertise

Career

Simon joined the firm in 1985 and became a partner in 1989.

Contact details

023 8085 7088

Accreditations
Memberships
  • President of the Southern Coroners' Society and Deputy Coroner for Hampshire (Central)
  • Deputy Coroner for Nottinghamshire
  • Member of the Law Society's Family Panel
  • Chair of Hampshire Resolution (Solicitors Family Law Association)

Significant Experience

  • Simon has over 30 years' experience in this field and regularly appears as an advocate on behalf of his clients in the Family Court.
  • He has experience in all types of cases, including those with an international dimension, owner-managed businesses and farming cases.
  • Simon was instructed as Solicitor for the Appellant in the case of Burns v Burns (which went to the Court of Appeal), concerning the circumstances in which the court can set aside a Consent Order.

Additional Expertise

Collaborative law: Simon is a Trained Collaborative Lawyer. He is a member of Solent Collaborative Group.

Quotes


Simon Burge has been a life saver for me during my divorce. His highly competent, calm and friendly demeanour has helped me through a very difficult and emotional stage of my life. He has a firm grasp of financial complexities and is very good at mediation whilst always having his client's interests at the heart of everything.

Legal 500, 2025

Simon Burge has seen it all and is able to deal with anything that is thrown at him. He is calm, thorough and an excellent lawyer. He is a very reassuring presence to clients.

Legal 500, 2025

Simon provided exceptional service, insight, skill and knowledge. He was also highly compassionate and helped me through a challenging and stressful period.

Chambers and Partners, 2024

"He is calmly reassuring when negotiations or situations are difficult. He explains all options and consequences thoroughly. His responsiveness was unparalleled."

Legal 500, 2024

"Simon Burge is very experienced and sensible. He is tactically astute but also has a calm manner which lets clients feel completely at ease."

Legal 500, 2023

"He is a very clear thinker who is able to explain complicated issues with great clarity."

Legal 500, 2023

He is extremely thorough and his preparation is outstanding. Simon Burge is creative, thoughtful and highly structured in his approach.

Chambers and Partners, 2022

"Simon Burge gives confident, no-nonsense advice. Highly respected in the region and for good reason."

Legal 500, 2022

"Simon Burge is calm, measured, and a true expert in the field."

Legal 500, 2022

Simon Burge is highly experienced and gives excellent practical advice. He forges great relationships with his clients to whom he gives a complete and commercial service. He is also an excellent team leader.

Legal 500, 2021

Simon Burge is widely respected in the market and boasts a wealth of experience practising in family and matrimonial law, frequently assisting clients with financial disputes and cases involving children. A client reports: "In dealing with the problem he was gentle, considerate and clever; he was easy to talk to and I felt like he was very honest and that he really cared about me and the outcome of the case."

Chambers and Partners, 2020

I was very impressed with your professionalism, your manner and your precision in dealing with this case and this client in particular. It was a genuine pleasure to work with you and I hope we have an opportunity to work together again.”

Ms G

Insights by Simon


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13 August - Simon Burge

Within a court case it is vital that all parties involved understand what is being communicated to them, and that they, themselves, can clearly express their own information, thoughts, and...

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13 January - Simon Burge

Simon Burge, Partner and head of the Family Team at Blake Morgan was recently quoted in The Telegraph's article exploring "Why men are more likely to think about divorce than...

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9 January - Simon Burge

Most people will have only heard of a divorce as being a formal way of ending a marriage, however it is also possible to obtain another form of formal marriage...

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