Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Matthew Brookes-Baker successfully obtains a costs order against a Local Authority in the Court of Appeal in Re W (A Child) [2020] EWCA Civ 77.
The link to the judgement…
June Rodgers and James Turner in the High Court in re C (Lay Advocates) [2019] EWHC 3738 (Fam).
Hearing to determine the issue of the funding of lay advocates for parents who…
Edward Bennett has written an enlightening article for Family Law entitled ‘A Day in the Life…Edward Bennett’ about life as a Family Law barrister.
The article can be viewed here.
Jonathan Sampson has been appointed as Queen’s Counsel in the list published today and Harcourt offers him its warmest congratulations. The ceremony will take place at Westminster on Monday 16th March…
At a fact-finding re-hearing a child was found to have suffered a penetrative anal injury inflicted by an unidentified male, the circumstances of the injury being known only to the…
Rob was brought in as a specialist junior for the Appellant mother in Re NY (Abduction: Inherent Jurisdiction) [2019] UKSC 49.
This appeal concerned a father’s application for an order…
Matthew successfully appeared in the Court of Appeal in Re W (A Child) [2019] EWCA Civ 1966 on behalf of the appellant, who had previously acted in person, where final care and…
Damian Garrido QC, Cecilia Barrett and Edward Bennett took part in a charity moot held in the Supreme Court yesterday (24th October 2019).
Classics For All (classicsforall.org.uk) is a charity…
Edward Devereux QC and Edward Bennett were invited to give a masterclass on ‘Children and families: International Law and Brexit’.
The masterclass took place at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office…
We are delighted to announce that we now have 18 rankings in Chambers UK Bar and 26 rankings in Legal 500.
We are described by the directories as being ‘the…
We are delighted to announce that Curtis Ball and Natasha Miller have each accepted an invitation to become members of Harcourt Chambers after the successful completion of their pupillage.
Their…
We are thrilled to announce that Harcourt Chambers raised over £1,380 after our team successfully completed the London Legal Walk last summer.
London Legal Walk fundraising pages have now closed,…