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
Dr Rachel Segal of St John’s Chambers has produced the latest edition of the Denton Resource – an invaluable time-saving aid for practitioners finding themselves on either side of relief from sanctions applications. The Resource (covering relevant higher court authorities reported up to 31 December 2020) now summarises 250 judgments on relief from sanctions since…
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…
1st January 2021
Jacqueline Humphreys, has been appointed as the new Chancellor for the Diocese of Worcester. The appointment was made by Bishop John following the approval of the Lord Chancellor. Jacqueline has been the Deputy Chancellor for the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham since 2012 and takes over in our diocese from Charles Mynors who is stepping…
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…
2nd November 2020
St John’s is pleased to announce Kate Pearson as their newest tenant. Kate is accepting instructions in the following areas: Children Private Law Children Public Law Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 Divorce and Financial Remedies Part IV Family Law Act 1996 (Domestic Violence) ToLATA 1996 Barrister, Lucy Reed says “Kate is going to be a…
29th October 2020
Christopher Sharp QC, member of our Family & Divorce team, publishes the Autumn edition of his 2020 financial remedies update written for the FLBA’s ‘Family Affairs’ magazine. He regularly reviews the more important recent financial remedy cases during the course of the year with termly updates. All updates are available to download from Christopher’s online…
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…
