Earlier this month, St Ives Chambers welcomed two new Pupils – Eleanor Lake and Gareth-Lee Smith.
Prior to being called to the Bar, Eleanor’s legal experience focused on trading standards at Warwic...
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St Ives Chambers’ is hosting its annual Child Care Conference on Friday 6th October at Edgbaston Stadium. It is the ideal event for those public law practitioners who represent local authorities, parents...
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Family Group Newsletter (Summer 2017)
Within this edition of the Family Group Newsletter, you will find a range of articles including legal development and points of interest.
Contents:
“Should the Court...
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In the current edition of the Solicitors Journal, Elizabeth Isaacs QC comments on the pilot to get more judges involved in settlement conferences.
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Date: Friday 30th June 2017
In the June edition of Family Law Journal, Elizabeth Isaacs QC has written ‘Adoption: time for a change?’ which highlights the prioritisation of resources for adoption again...
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Mr Jeremy Weston QC, Head of St Ives Chambers, has published an article in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (a BMJ Journal) which provides clarity for healthcare professionals, teachers and social care...
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Introduction
A unanimous Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in the case of London Borough of Hackney v Williams & Anor [2017] EWCA Civ 26 (26 January 2017), which was an appeal on three ...
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For a whole variety of reasons, it is not uncommon for parents in care cases to allege that the children’s guardian is biased against them. Over the years, I have had many parents tell me that the guardi...
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It is with great pleasure that St Ives Chambers would like to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Isaacs QC as a Deputy High Court Judge of the Family Division with immediate effect.
All of Chambers woul...
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Matthew Maynard and David Payne appeared on behalf of the children and local authority respectively in the recently reported Court of Appeal decision in Re V-Z (Children) [2016] EWCA Civ 475. The leading j...
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