Gemma Bowes > Chambers of Sara Lewis KC > Birmingham, England > Barrister Profile
St Philips Chambers Offices
St Philips Chambers
55 TEMPLE ROW
BIRMINGHAM
B2 5LS
England
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Gemma Bowes
Work Department
Family
Position
Gemma represents local authorities, children, parents, extended family members, and, on occasions, foster carers, at all stages of care proceedings and appeals.
She has dealt with applications for leave to oppose adoption, post-adoption/placement contact, discharge of care orders, forced marriage protection orders, and deprivation of liberty.
Gemma undertook financial remedies and TOLATA work before relocating to the Midlands from Harcourt Chambers. She is now relaunching her practice in this area, having benefited from shadowing senior members of the family finance team in recent months.
She has previous experience of matters involving trusts, assets located overseas, insolvency, third party interests, inheritance, pre-acquired wealth, capacity issues and representation through the official solicitor.
Career
Called to the Bar in 2009.
Memberships
FLBA.
Education
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Gemma Bowes –St Philips Chambers ‘Gemma is a tenacious and confident advocate. She has an understanding and sensitive bedside manner with extensive knowledge. Gemma has a wealth of experience and her advocacy skills are to be admired. She is a very safe pair of hands.’
St Philips Chambers is widely praised as ‘an excellent family set providing support at every level‘ from experienced silks to juniors just beginning their careers. With a reputation as a ‘robust advocate’ and benefiting from a background as a neuropsychologist, Sara Lewis KC regularly appears in medically complex cases heard in the High Court – she is often instructed to represent parents facing serious allegations of abuse resulting in brain injuries and/or death. Gemma Bowes is well known as a ‘skilled advocate’ with an ‘empathetic bedside manner’. William Horwood‘s growing practice sees him act on behalf of local authorities, parents, children, and extended family members, impressing for his ‘exemplary’ oral and written advocacy as well as his ‘excellent grasp of statute and case law’.