Family

Family

The Family Group at 4KBW contains members at all levels of seniority who practise within all areas of family law.

  • Public Law cases, such as Care proceedings, Emergency Protection Orders, Adoption
  • Private Law, including Child Arrangement Orders, Specific Issue and prohibited Steps Orders, Special Guardianship, an applications for leave to remove from the jurisdiction
  • Financial Remedy and other financial proceedings, including relating to divorce or separation, cohabitants, schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, pre-nuptial agreements, trusts and TLATA 1996
  • Abduction (international and within UK)
  • Emergency Protection, including injunctions and freezing orders
  • Surrogacy
  • Inheritance Act claims

Members of Chambers have been Instructed in matters at all levels of the Family Court, the Family Division of the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

The Family Group accepts instructions from solicitors across the UK, including those working in Local Authorities. Instructions are also accepted by referrals from the Central Authority and the Official Solicitor, and members also regularly represent CAFCASS. We have a dedicated clerking team led by Jason Roukin who can help you find the right barrister for your case, in terms of speciality, experience, or simply the right personality for a vulnerable client. Chambers’ clerks will also be pleased to help with queries in relation to billing and fees, such as VHCCs. 

We are conscious that there is a huge and increasing burden on family solicitors to provide written documents for the Court. All members of the Family Group will assist with Practice Direction Documents where required, as well as providing skeleton arguments when appropriate. Members are always available to help with written Advice on the evidence, tactics or preparation of a case. Finding the right expert can sometimes make or break a case and so we keep a database of experts who have impressed (or failed to impress!). Chambers has a specialist family law library including fully up-to-date on-line services and we will be pleased to help you with any point of research for a case.

Various members of the Family Group also have experience of and work within other disciplines. As a result we can offer a tailor-made solution for clients who wish a number of issues to be addressed, such as a barrister who can act for a client in both the Family Court and criminal, immigration, public law, or civil courts. A unique feature of the multi-disciplinary approach taken by members of Chambers is the insight into “cross-over” areas of law which may arise within the family jurisdiction, such as issues involving family trusts, company structures, housing or employment issues. Alternatively joint conferences with two barristers with differing specialities can be arranged. 
 

Family team

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Peter Fortune

Call: 1978 Standing: 1980

Kim Preston

Kim Preston

Call: 1991

Piers Martin

Piers Martin

Call: 1997 Standing: 1998

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Kirsten Allan

Call: 1998 Standing: 1999

Lee Harris

Lee Harris

Call: 1999 Standing: 2000

Chris Bryden

Chris Bryden

Joint Deputy Head of Chambers, Head of Family and Property Teams

Call: 2003 Standing: 2006

Naomi Carpenter

Naomi Carpenter

Call: 2004 Standing: 2008

Katherine Illsley

Katherine Illsley

Joint Deputy Head of Chambers

Call: 2010 Standing: 2011

Nilay Shastry

Nilay Shastry

Call: 2015 Standing: 2015

Kate Jones

Kate Jones

Call: 2013 Standing: 2016

Lucy Limbrey

Lucy Limbrey

Call: 2013 Standing: 2016

Phil Anderson

Philip Anderson

Call: 2014 Standing: 2017

Jyoti Wood

Jyoti Wood

Call: 2016 Standing: 2017

Ben Haseldine

Ben Haseldine

Call: 2014 Standing: 2018

Kirsty Day

Kirsty Day

Call: 2016 Standing: 2018

Tori Adams

Tori Adams

Call: 2016 Standing: 2018

Rhian Wood

Rhian Wood

Call: 2015 Standing: 2019

Jennifer Lanigan

Jennifer Lanigan

Call: 2018 Standing: 2019

Adele Pullarp

Adele Pullarp

Call: 2018 Standing: 2020

Karen Staunton

Karen Staunton

Call: 2020 Standing: 2021

Alex Maunders

Alex Maunders

Call: 2017 Standing: 2022

Ciara Moran

Ciara Moran

Call: 2021 Standing: 2022

Josh Stamp-Simon

Josh Stamp-Simon

Call: 2018 Standing: 2023

Tabitha Everett

Tabitha Everett

Call: 2021 Standing: 2023

Daniella Adeluwoye

Daniella Adeluwoye

Call: 2023 Standing: 2024

Jason Roukin

Jason Roukin

Family and Civil Managing Clerk