Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Re AB (A Child) [2024] EWHC 586 (Fam) concerned a child born through surrogacy in the USA. The parents sought to establish their child’s interest as beneficiary of family trusts…
Edward Bennett appeared in the High Court in committal proceedings which were reported in both The Times and the Daily Mail.
Harcourt Chambers congratulates Edward Bennett on his appointment as Registrar of the British Indian Ocean Territory Court of Appeal.
Edward will continue in full time practice at the bar as…
Edward Bennett, instructed by Freemans Solicitors, represented the respondent mother in K v E [2023] EWHC 2890 (Fam) and successfully resisted the father’s application for the child’s summary return to Germany.…
Edward Bennett and Natasha Miller, led by James Turner KC, instructed by International Family Law Group LLP, represented the Appellant child D. Jason Green, Rob George and Fazeela Ishmael, instructed…
Harcourt Chambers and five of our members have been shortlisted in the following seven categories:
Family Law Chambers of the Year – London
Children Law Team of the Year
Family…
Edward, instructed by Dawson Cornwell, appeared on behalf of the successful Applicant mother in TMS v AVS [2023] EWHC 1620 (Fam) an application brought under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction…
Edward Bennett, instructed by Goodman Ray, represented the successful Appellant father in N & A (1996 Hague Convention: Article 13) [2023] EWCA Civ 623, an appeal from an order relating…
In KN & Anor v RN & Ors [2023] EWHC 712 (Fam) Edward Bennett (instructed by Alison Leivesley of Bindmans) successfully argued that the court should recognise Nigerian adoptions at…
Nick Goodwin KC leading Edward Bennett for the Respondent Father and Mehvish Chaudhry acting for the Appellant Mother in Re (A Child : Findings of Fact) [2022] EWCA Civ 1652…
On Friday, 30 July 2021 the Supreme Court decision in T (A Child) [2021] UKSC 35 was published. This case concerns the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court to authorise…
The following talks took place on Monday, 25 January 2021:
Jason Green – Lessons learned from recent cases on remote hearingsEdward Bennet & Paige Campbell – International child abduction updateSian…