Brexit Britain should cash in on its role as the world’s divorce capital, according to a lawyer who has won settlements worth hundreds of millions of pounds for international clients.
Ayesha Vardag, president of Vardags, a firm of family solicitors, said: “The divorce industry is worth approximately £1bn in fees and if we were to open it up it could treble or quadruple that. This could be one of our greatest exports.”
Her intervention comes ahead of “Divorce Day”, January 6, the first working Monday of the year, when lawyers expect their biggest surge in divorce inquiries.
Vardag, 51, made legal history in 2010 after winning a Supreme Court case involving Katrin Radmacher, a German heiress, which led to prenuptial agreements becoming enforceable in