Welcoming Pupils to Unit Chambers

Pupils Unit Chambers

Unit Chambers is delighted to announce that over the next few months, we will be welcoming two new pupils to the team. Our two successful new pupils are Joshua Brindle and Isabel Hawkins both of whom have a wide range of experience and expertise across the family law sector. With over 150 aspiring Barristers applying for this round […]

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Care Orders and SGOs: Confirmation that they can co-exist together.

Care Orders and SGOs Unit Chambers

Care Orders and SGOs: the long awaited authority confirming they can co-exist together. Today the Court of Appeal has published the judgment in the matter of Re F and G [2021] EWCA 622. Our Senior Consultant Barrister, Lisa Edmunds, and Consultant Barrister, Kerri O’Neill, represented the appellant mother in this appeal. Therefore, this article is hot off the press and on […]

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Re YY (Children: Conduct of the Local Authority)

Re YY (Children: Conduct of the Local Authority)

IntroductionThe conduct of a local authority (LA) in public proceedings has come to the forefront of the court’s mind in the recent case of Re YY (Children: Conduct of the Local Authority) [2021] EWHC 749 (Fam). Family law relies upon the collaboration of a multidisciplinary team of professionals to provide an accurate and true depiction […]

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