Chambers News
Team 4KBW will be running in the Reading half marathon on 1st April 2012.
We are running for a charity called Launchpad Reading, which provides supported housing to disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Reading. We appreciate that you may get many requests to dig deep but we’d be delighted if you’d support us and our chosen charity.
January 2012
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Patrick McMorrow and Isaac Maka have joined chambers.
December 2011
New Tenants: Chambers is delighted that Farah Amin, Peter Collins and Michaella Jacobs have joined chambers.
October 2011
Building on their work in this specialist area Michael Salter of Ely Place, and Chris Bryden of 4KBW this week gave evidence to a Parliamentary Group Inquiry into potential amendments to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997(Click here for more info.
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Lee Harris has joined chambers.
June 2011
New Tenant: Chambers is delighted that Gwynn Price Rowlands has joined chambers.
Beverly Roberts
Practice Profile
Family Law
Her Family practice encompasses International Movement of Children, Finance and Divorce, Care, Residence and Contact, and Children Act in particular. She has extensive knowledge and interest in the rights of children in the context of legal proceedings and in the wider society.
Her expertise includes both Private and Public Law, acting for parents, or the Guardian, International Movement of Children, Child Abduction, Serious Physical and Sexual Abuse of Children and Women, Children with an extensive history of Emotional Abuse and Neglect, Incest, Child Pornography, cases involving the Downloading of Child Pornography, and Adoption
In relation to Ancillary Relief matters, she has an excellent grasp of Finances within Divorce.
General
Her criminal practice encompassed both Defence and Prosecution work. Her expertise included Gang Rape, Sexual Assault, Downloading of Child Pornography, the Importation, Possession and Supply of Drugs, Armed Robbery, Serious Assault, Money Laundering, and Housing and Council Tax Benefit Fraud.
She has also represented clients at the Immigration Appeals Tribunal, the Employment Tribunal, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, in Personal Injury Claims, and in Building Disputes.
Professional memberships
Family Bar Association
South Eastern Circuit
Training
Teachers Advanced Advocacy and gives Advocacy and Family Law Lecturers at Middle Temple to both students and young practitioners
Professional Courses
Human Rights Act 1998
Vulnerable Witnesses
Forensic Accounting
Sexual Offences Act 2003
Expert Witness
International Criminal Courts
Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Criminal Justice Act 2003
Criminal Procedure Rules
Serious Sexual Course 2007
Awards
1996: Ede and Ravenscroft Award: ICSL
1996: Middle Temple Scholarship: ICSL
1984: Student of the year Scholarship: School of Architecture UOFS SA
Career History (non-legal)
1982-94: ARCHITECT Leslie Jones, London and HLM Architects and the GTD Partnership, Richmond, Surrey; Witthun and Maree Architects, South Africa and Stauch Vorster Architects, South Africa
Interests
Golf, tennis, scuba diving, skiing (water and snow), horse riding, travel, classical music, opera, (Knows nothing about it but loves it all the same), theatre, the arts, wild life and nature.
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