Pupillage Interview Advice Thread #1 - Preparation The first interview invites are out, so it seems like a good time for me to put together some general pointers based on my experience of sitting on pupillage committees. First up, preparation. (1/11)

Manchester, we have arrived! Your Women In Criminal Law sub-committee is buzzing to be up and running. Keep your eyes peeled for a packed agenda of events for 2023 #WICL #criminallaw #women

So proud of these two amazing women! They’re going to do great things 🙌🏻💜

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As this term passes to the next we say thank you to our outgoing Junior Holly Menary and welcome to our new Junior, Jennifer Devans Tamakloe Jennifer Devans-Tamakloe. Continuing one of the oldest roles on our Circuit in fine fashion.

🐝🌟EVENT🌟🐝 29th June 2023 ⏲️6 -8pm 🏢 Manchester Hall, Bridge Street 🥂Drinks and Light refreshments provided "100 years on from the first woman called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn" Free, register graysinn.org.uk/events/100-yea… In collaboration with Lincoln House Chambers and Gray's Inn

And we are off! 3rd FLBA Scholarship programme for those wishing to practise at the Family Bar opens today. Our fund is aimed at increasing opportunity and promoting social mobility, equality and diversity by assisting financially those who... (1/2)

3rd year of FLBA Scholarship launched today. A fantastic opportunity for someone wishing to join us at the Family Bar and who could do with some financial help! Closes 30 June 2023.

Beyond belief - new post about responses to S (A Child) [2023] EWCA Civ 706 (recent appeal re party status for a father) pinktape.co.uk/rants/beyond-b…

Booking for the 2023 Conference and AGM in Bristol on 14 October 2023 is now open. openingdoors.eventsair.com/flba-2023/

Rachael Banks of St John's Buildings will be speaking at the Liverpool Law Society Private Child Law Conference 2023, covering 'Section 91(14) Order' - Vexatious litigants, Recent Case Law, Difficult Opponents & more! For full info, see: liverpoollawsociety.org.uk/training-cours…

Contempt case (judgment summons) Jardaneh v Jardaneh [2022] EWFC 201 summarised by Dr Stephanie Coker Dr Stephanie Coker here tinyurl.com/s9zh2nf9. Suspended prison sentence for failing to pay costs and LSPO orders.

Charlotte Baker, instructed by Janet Broadley of Goodman Ray, successfully represented the applicant in 1980 Hague Convention proceedings regarding the return of 2 children to Ireland. Read the judgment: caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2023/…

.Kate Burnell KC is standing for vice-Chair of the FLBA. Kate is utterly committed to the success of the family bar and would make a fantastic Vice-Chair. We would encourage all FLBA members to vote for Kate!

Are you an #AspiringBarrister applying for #Pupillage in 2024? 42BR will be hosting a Virtual Pupillage Open Evening, discussing what Chambers life is like at different stages of the profession. 📅 Wednesday 10 January 🕔 5:30pm Sign up below 🔽 42br.com/latest-news/42…

We are delighted to announce that David de Jéhan has joined Chambers. David joins the Family group and specialises in Matrimonial Finance. shorturl.at/ceBEN

N v J: the Last Word on Domestic Abuse as Conduct? ⁦ Sam Hillas,⁩ Anita Mehta ⁦4PB⁩, ⁦@OliviaPiercy2⁩ financialremediesjournal.com/content/n-v-j-…

bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/… Judgment of HHJ Hess which is, to my knowledge, the first instance of the Galbraith Tables being expressly used by the court to arrive at a capital value for a pension asset. See para 21.

It’s great to see Sam Hillas KC’s blog, co-written with @OliviaPiercy2 and Anita Mehta, on the recent case of N v J and the issue of domestic abuse as conduct, published in the Financial Remedies Journal (Financial Remedies Journal). You can read it here: rb.gy/1kr40n