Family News for: Sarah Henstock-Turner

Hot on the heels of its launch of a remote FDR (Financial Dispute Resolution) service, large national chambers 3PB Barristers has launched a new arbitration service for children cases. This is in response to record levels of demand for family arbitrations via video to resolve disputes over child arrangements be it where children live or the time they spend with the other parent, where they go to school or even whether they can relocate permanently...

Publishers Viking has scooped an “urgent clarion call” for the British farming industry by 3PB criminal and family barrister Sarah Langford in a three-way auction. “For a Love of the Land” will be published in spring 2022 and follows Sarah’s hugely successful debut book, and Sunday Times bestseller, “In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law”. Sarah Langford was a barrister for 10 years, working in criminal and family law in London and around the...

3PB family barrister Steven Howard has added three more useful video guides to his series about how to create ebundles for the family courts. The latest editions cover: Video 5 - Updating an e-bundle by rebuilding from individual documents Video 6 - Updating an e-bundle by inserting updates into the existing bundle Video 7 - Adding a late document to an e-bundle.   View the new videos here

3PB has recruited family law barrister Adeo Fraser from Northampton Chambers to work from its fast-growing Birmingham office. Adeo Fraser is a busy junior family law barrister who advises and represents in court on the full range of financial remedies, TOLATA, Public and Private children law disputes, injunctions and domestic abuse cases. He is frequently trusted with and instructed in lengthy and complex hearings and has represented several clients on both UK and international abduction...

3PB is delighted to announce that former family solicitor Theresa Lim - who transferred to the Bar last year - has become a tenant and full member of the 200-strong national barristers’ chambers. She joined its busy Family team and is based from their expanding Birmingham office. Theresa qualified as a solicitor in April 2005 and worked for solicitors Glaisyers for 15 years. Theresa has considerable experience undertaking a wide range of advocacy in family...

3PB’s Rachael Goodall, instructed by Trethowans LLP, appeared for the wife in a case involving the treatment of pensions on divorce. The case was before HHJ Hess, Deputy Lead Judge of the Financial Remedy Court. The authority quotes widely from the Pensions Advisory Group report published in 2019 and has very useful guidance as to how pensions should be treated on divorce. Rachael was successful in arguing that the total £2.1m pension fund should be shared...

3PB family barrister Steven Howard has added two new videos to his useful series of guides to creating ebundles for use in the family courts. The next two videos cover: Creating an ebundle from individual documents; and creating a clickable index. View the new videos here: How to create ebundles for the Family Court

As the trend for the courts to prefer electronic bundles to hard copy bundles continues - exacerbated and accelerated by lawyers and judges being forced to work remotely through the coronavirus lockdown period - 3PB family law barrister Steven Howard has put together a series of videos designed to help solicitors to easily create ebundles that will be effective and easy to use in and by the family courts.   Our ever-expanding series includes (so...

3PB Family and Property Law Barrister Luke Nelson has produced an updated practical guide to case management for remote hearings. Due to the Coronavirus lockdown, the legal sector (known for it’s old fashioned ways of working) is having to adapt quickly to working remotely. The checklist and practical guide to case management provides you with all the knowledge you need to move forward during these unprecedented times. To read the guide please click here.

New UK network Women in Family Law (WiFL) is drawing attention to the plight of people forced to stay at home with an abusive partner because of the coronavirus lockdown.

Matthew Wyard analyses Re: ACC &Ors [2020] EWCOP 9, a case concerning the conflicts of interests that may arise where property and affairs deputies instruct a firm with which they are associated to carry out instructions for P,  or to conduct litigation on P’s behalf. Click here to read Matthew's analysis. Click here to view a copy of the judgment. Matthew Wyard is a public law barrister specialising in the fields of health (including Court...

3PB is sponsoring an exciting new initiative  - Women in Family Law - which aims to bring together women working in all areas of family law in order to provide support and encouragement to tackle the multitude of issues and challenges that face women working in this field. Hannah Markham QC is leading the Association as Chair of the founding board with 3PB's Vanessa Meachin QC serving on the committee. Membership to the Association is...