28th April 2021
Family law barrister, Sarah Phillimore is presenting a talk on ‘gender determination – the Tavistock decision and its implications’ at the 8th family Law & children’s rights conference: World congress 2021 through the eyes of a child, to be held virtually from 12-16 July 2021. For the first time, this event is jointly organised by the World…
1st April 2021
St John’s Chambers is proud to announce that on 1st April 2021, three new pupils commenced their pupillage in our successful Family & Divorce, Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury and Commercial & Chancery teams. Diana Pannizzon-Pineda who joins our Family & Divorce team will be under the supervision of Julia Belyavin. Whilst Diana was studying at the University of…
4th February 2021
We are delighted to announce the upcoming release of the Dictionary of Private Children Law (2021) co-written by family barrister and Head of Divorce and Financial Remedy, Zoe Saunders. Authors HHJ Edward Hess, Circuit Judge, Designated Family Judge & Deputy High Court Judge Zoe Saunders, Barrister, St John’s Chambers Piers Pressdee QC, Barrister, 4PB Dr…
26th November 2020
We are delighted to announce that Family barrister, Sarah Phillimore has won Family Commentator of the year 2020 at the Family Law Awards Sarah was called to the Bar in 1994 and since 1999 has worked as a specialist family lawyer in Chambers in London and Bristol. She has interest and experience in public law…
23rd October 2020
We are delighted to announce that we have been hugely successful in this year’s Chambers UK Bar 2021 Guide. We have been recognised in a total of 22 major areas of law, with 1 of our barristers ranked as a star individual, 3 up and coming, 17 of our barristers ranked in Band 1 and…
9th October 2020
Graeme (instructed by Jay Oberoi of Avon & Somerset Family Law) represented the maternal grandmother on her application for leave to apply for the revocation of a placement order made in February 2020 at the end of care and placement proceedings. The application was first heard by HHJ Bromilow in July 2020. His Honour found…
7th October 2020
We are delighted to announce that our member Rachel Russell (Civil / Western Circuit) and David Regan (Family / Wales) been appointed to sit as a Recorder by the Judicial Office. The appointment will take effect from 12th October 2020. This year’s appointments sees a total of 118 Recorders appointed. A full list of the…
5th October 2020
We are delighted to announce that we have been ranked as top tier in 10 different areas of law and with 47 of our barristers ranked in 14 areas of law in the 2021 Legal 500 rankings. This means that St. John’s barristers have been ranked a staggering 82 times in 2021. We are also…
15th September 2020
We are delighted to announce that Family barrister Sarah Phillimore has been shortlisted for Family Law Commentator of the Year Law Awards. To show your support and vote for Sarah, please click here Sarah has specialised in public law family proceedings from about 2000 in London, moving to St Johns Chambers in 2010. She began…
20th May 2020
Family barrister, Lucy Reed writes article: Mr Justice Mann, Judge in charge of Live Services, has issued guidance to judges today about PDF bundles. The guidance applies to all courts, but not to tribunals. The guidance is provided in order to achieve a level of useful consistency in the provision of PDF bundles for use…
