Callum Hurley
Consultant Barrister

Year of Call: 2021

“Callum is able to pick up a case quickly, grasp the issues quickly and run with it without fuss or drama. As a local authority lawyer I have found his clear attendance notes and advice on how to further progress a case very helpful. He has a good understanding of the pressures under which local authority lawyers work.”

— Solicitor

“Working with Callum was wonderfully straightforward both in terms of preparing the case for final hearing, the final hearing itself and the post-hearing aftercare. It felt very much like a team effort from start to finish and I knew immediately that my client was in a very safe pair of hands.”

— Solicitor

“Callum was calm throughout which really helped as I am a natural worrier and was riddled with anxiety about having to give evidence for the first time. Callum spent a lot of time explaining everything and reassuring me. He really is a credit to chambers.”

— Client

Callum joined Unit Chambers in September 2022 following completion of his pupillage at a Chambers in Manchester. Prior to that, Callum was a paralegal at a local family law firm for several years.
Since joining Unit Chambers, Callum has developed a busy practice in public and private children law across the Merseyside and Cheshire areas. Callum appears before Magistrates, District, Circuit and High Court Judges and is frequently instructed to represent a range of clients from those with complex additional needs to local authority social workers and guardians. He is known for delivering robust advice in cases involving complex and sensitive issues. In addition, Callum is regularly asked to assist and advise local authorities on matters involving evidentiary and threshold issues.
Callum accepts instructions on behalf of local authorities, parents/grandparents and children’s guardians in matters including but not limited to:
- Care and Supervision Orders;
- Adoption;
- Discharge of Care Orders;
- Special Guardianship Orders;
- Secure Accommodation / Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS);
- Section 8 Orders (Child Arrangement;
- Prohibited Steps;
- Specific Issue);
- Injunctive Relief (Non-molestation;
- Occupation orders);
- Finding of Fact Hearings.
A Council v The Mother & Ors. [2023] EWFC 37: represented a Local Authority at a hearing to consider the merits of continuing care proceedings and a 5-day composite final hearing in a single-issue case involving inconclusive medical evidence of an alleged non-accidental injury. Read the full judgment here.
2022 - Present | Consultant Barrister, Unit Chambers
2021 - 2022 | Pupil Barrister, Cobden House Chambers
2019 - 2021 | Family Law Paralegal, BDH Solicitors
2016 - 2018 | Group Litigation Paralegal, SPG Law
The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
The Northern Circuit
The Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
2022 | Qualified Mediator – Phoenix Dispute Solutions & International Mediation Institute
2021 | BPC LLM – University of Law
2020 | LLB – University of Liverpool