Rachel Bale speaking at the Oxford Family Law Seminar 2025
18th February 2025
3PB's matrimonial finances and family trusts barrister Rachel Bale will be speaking at the Oxford Family Law Seminar 2025 about the role of conduct in financial proceedings. Organised by the Oxford judiciary and Oxfordshire Resolution, this event will see Rachel debating legal guidance and advice on topical family law subjects, alongside other experts.
The seminar will be taking place at Oxford Combined Court Centre in St Aldates, Oxford on Wednesday 5th March 2025 from 2pm. All profits raised from the afternoon will be donated to Cowley Contact Centre, an accredited Child Contact Centre that has been in operation for nearly 15 years. To book onto the seminar (£48 per ticket), please click here.
Rachel is joined by Jude Eyre from Nuffield Family Justice Observatory who will be discussing the Pathfinder Project in private children proceedings and Bianca Jackson from Coram Chambers presenting on transgender issues in family law.
Rachel Bale was called to the Bar in 2019 and is a fierce and trusted family barrister and trusts expert who often appears in cases well beyond her year of call. As a Trusts specialist she often represents intervenors and third parties in complex disputes involving proprietary rights and interests, sham and illusory trusts as well as other Chancery matters.
If you wish to contact Rachel, please email her on [email protected]. If you want to instruct her, or see about her availability, please email her clerk Patrick Robson at [email protected] or by calling them on 01865 793 736.
Related News
-
3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) specialist family law barrister Gemma Chapman, has written for Family Law Journal on the training currently available for professionals on how to preserve the integrity of a young person’s account of abuse. In her article, “Persistent failure to protect the child’s narrative – time for change?”, Gemma discusses how, despite long established guidance and authorities on the subject, oftentimes a young person’s account of abuse is captured in a manner...
Continue reading -
3PB are delighted to announce that family law barristers Stephen Wildblood KC and Nicola Frost have both qualified as Family Law Arbitrators under the Financial Remedy Scheme. Both become members of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and are now members of the specialist panel of family law arbitrators, managed by Resolution on behalf of the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators (“IFLA”). Stephen Wildblood KC (1980 call) practised as a specialist family barrister for 27...
Continue reading -
At a substantial hearing before Mrs Justice Lieven, 3PB family barristers Andrew Duncan, leading Charlotte Steer (pictured here, left to right), acted for the children in the recent reported case of A Local Authority v T & Ors [2025] EWHC 334 (Fam). The case centred on the transfer of risk arising from alleged Fabricated or Induced Illness (“FII”) in a disabled child to their younger sibling. The guardian’s report played a pivotal role in the...
Continue reading -
3PB’s chancery and property barrister Rachel Bale delivered a webinar for LexisNexis on the end of year roundup in Family Law, with a specific focus on Financial Remedies. The webinar addressed the use of non-court dispute resolution, the courts' approach to conduct and costs, clarity on the concept of Matrimonalisation, and an update on pensions. To watch a preview, or the full webinar (subject to subscription), please visit here If you would be interested in...
Continue reading
