London-based Family Law Barristers
We are a leading, committed, and welfare-focused Family chambers that often represents parents, children, family members, and local authorities during a crisis. Call us today on 020 7832 3200
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We provide specialist advocacy and advisory services in all areas of Family law. Please ask our Practice Team for information or a fee quote.
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We welcome approaches from forward-thinking barristers. Contact the Head of the Pupillage & Tenancy Committee, Polly Allison, discretion assured.
We recruit two pupils each year via the Pupillage Gateway.
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Contact
Call our experienced practice team on 020 7832 3200 or email for help.
For urgent enquiries, please call Billy Forecast, our senior practice manager, on 075 3849 3689.
In E (Children: Costs) [2025] EWCA Civ 183, the Court of Appeal considered an appeal on costs following a fact-finding hearing in private law proceedings.
Justin Tadros, instructed by Jasmine Hollis from Beck Fitzgerald, appeared for the respondent mother (they were not the representatives at trial). The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal on costs in part and importantly confirmed at paragraphs 23 to 29 that the approach of ring-fencing and applying a different test to fact-finding hearing costs in private law (as proposed in Re J (Costs of Fact-Finding Hearing) [2009] EWCA Civ 1350)