2nd August 2022
St John’s Chambers is pleased to announce that Glen Pritchard, formerly a Solicitor working for Somerset County Council, has joined our Family & Divorce team. Glen was born and grew up in the North West but moved to the South West to study law at university. After graduating, Glen remained in the South West and gained…
7th April 2022
St John’s Chambers is pleased to announce that Sarah Fincham, formerly a barrister at Four Brick Court, London, has joined our Family & Divorce team. Sarah completed her pupillage and established her practice In London before returning to the west country, where she grew up. She specialises in care proceedings and private law children matters….
3rd February 2022
We are delighted to announce that the second edition of the Dictionary of Private Children Law (2022) co-written by Zoë Saunders has been published this month. This book is a unique reference guide to the key concepts, cases and practice of private children law. This 2022 edition is fully updated to include changes and developments…
27th January 2022
We are delighted to announce that Lucy Reed has been appointed as a Recorder with effect from 26th January 2022. Lucy will sit to hear family law cases on the Western Circuit, where she has been deployed as a Deputy District Judge since 2013. See a full list of the 163 newly appointed Recorders here. Lucy is…
10th December 2021
The Court of Appeal today handed down judgment in Griffiths v Tickle [2021] EWCA Civ 1882 Lucy Reed acted for one of the applicant journalists who wished to report the contents of a fact finding judgment delivered in the course of Children Act 1989 proceedings, and to identify the parents, where the court had made…
7th December 2021
On the 6th December 2021, the President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane announced the membership of The Transparency Implementation Group (or ‘TIG’). TIG has been created in order to implement the recommendations of the President’s Transparency Review, which was published in October. Those recommendations were for wide ranging cultural and practical reform to…
23rd November 2021
Family law barrister, Dominik Morton has recently published his podcast for Family Law Week on the analysis of a recent judgment in the case of Re T (A Child) [2021] UKSC 35. This case involved the Supreme Court dismissing the appeal of T, a 15-year old, and holding that the use of the inherent jurisdiction to authorise…
28th September 2021
St John’s Chambers has seen two of its members appointed to the role of Deputy District Judge on the Western Circuit by the Lord Chancellor. Caroline Elford and Zoë Saunders have been appointed with immediate effect, and will continue to practice whilst fulfilling their part-time judicial responsibilities. Zoë is head of our of Divorce &…
17th September 2021
We are delighted to announce that the Queen has appointed Kathryn Skellorn QC to be a Circuit Judge. Her Honour Judge Skellorn QC will be based at Birmingham Civil and Family Justice Centre with effect from 27 September 2021.
7th September 2021
The Family Law Awards 2021 has announced the nominees for this year’s ‘Regional Family Law Chambers of the Year Award’ and we are delighted that St John’s Family & Divorce team has been shortlisted. The shortlists were chosen by a judging panel made up of representatives of the Family Law Bar Association, Resolution, the Association…
