Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Edward Bennett, instructed by Dawson Cornwell LLP, appeared on behalf of the successful Applicant mother in Smolik, Elena (A Child) (Re Senior Courts Act 1981) [2024] EWHC 920 (Fam); an application by…
Edward Bennett, led by Christopher Hames KC, was instructed by Freemans to represent the Applicant step-father and Mehvish Chaudhry and Mavis Amonoo-Acquah, instructed by Dawson Cornwell, represented the 4th respondent biological father in R…
Harcourt Chambers is pleased to announce that several of its King’s Counsel (KC) barristers and junior barristers have been featured in the Doyle’s Guide to Family Law London 2024. This…
Yesterday evening Harcourt Chambers, co-hosting with Freemans Solicitors, held our International Children Law Seminar in The Reading Room, The Law Society, Chancery Lane. After a short introduction by Chair Nina…
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…