Routinely ranked as one of the top chambers for family law by the major guides to the legal profession, we can justifiably lay claim to being the most modern and dynamic of the top specialist family law sets. Our record of recruitment from amongst our own pupils is second-to-none, and our pupils – both those who are recruited, and those who are not – comment on the thoroughness of the training they receive here, and the friendliness of the set as a place in which to complete their training. As an organisation, our belief, and experience, is that the source of our ongoing success is in our pupils and junior members. The level of our pupillage award and our commitment to the pupillage programme is a testament to the strength of that belief.

The Legal 500 describes us as a “first-class set” with “great strength in depth” and a reputation for being “a force to be reckoned with at the family Bar”. Chambers and Partners is in a similar vein, describing us as a set with “demonstrable strength at silk and junior level that assists clients in both children and divorce proceedings” with “sought after” members. Many members, both silks and juniors, are individually listed as leaders in the field in both directories.

Recent cases involving members of chambers include the Supreme Court appeals in Unger & anor v Ul-Hasan & anor [2023] UKSC 22, Villiers v Villiers UKSC 2018/0114, Mills v Mills [2018] UKSC 38, Sharland v Sharland [2015] UKSC 60, and Vince v Wyatt [2015] UKSC 15 and the Court of Appeal appeals in Cazalet v Abu-Zalaf [2023] EWCA Civ 1065, Simon v Simon [2023] EWCA Civ 1048, Goddard-Watts v Goddard-Watts [2023] EWCA Civ 115, Azarmi-Movafagh v Bassiri-Dezfouli [2021] EWCA Civ 1184, Villiers v Villiers [2022] EWCA 772, Moher v Moher [2019] EWHC Civ 1482, Lachaux v Lachaux [2019] EWCA Civ 738, Brack v Brack [2018] EWCA Civ 2862, Sharp v Sharp [2017] EWCA Civ 408, Hart v Hart [2018] EWCA Civ 1058 and [2017] EWCA Civ 1306.