Nicola Chamberlain > Blackfords LLP > Woking, England > Lawyer Profile
Blackfords LLP Offices
CLEARY COURT
169 CHURCH STREET EAST
WOKING
GU21 6HJ
England
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Nicola Chamberlain
Work Department
Family Team
Position
Partner, Head of Family Team
Nicola is known for providing clear, practical legal advice in plain English.
Nicola practises exclusively in family law, including:-
Children:
- Child Arrangement Orders
- Leave to Remove applications
- Parental Responsibility Orders
- Special Guardianship Orders
Relationships/Matrimonial:
- Civil Partnership Dissolution
- Cohabitation Disputes
- Divorce
- Enforcement Proceedings
- Financial Arrangements
- Pre-nuptial Agreements
Other:
- Forced Marriage Orders
- Non-Molestation Orders
- Occupation Orders
Nicola carries out a full range of family law cases, predominantly privately funded, working on cases in the local courts and nationally, as well as complex cases in the High Court.
In addition to her legal work, Nicola is a Resolution qualified family mediator, mediating in both children and financial issues for privately funded clients.
Career
Kelcey & Hall, Bristol 1997-2001 Trainee Solicitor/Assistant Solicitor
Foster Wells, Aldershot 2001-2010 Assistant Solicitor & Head of Family Department
Child Law Partnership, Basingstoke 2010-2012 Assistant Solicitor
Blackfords LLP, 2012-2016 Assistant Solicitor, 2016-present Partner and Head of Family Team.
Memberships
Resolution
Education
BA (Hons) Social Sciences; PGDiPL and LPC – University of the West of England
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
Blackfords LLP in Woking houses a broad team, which handles the full range of family law matters, and is noted for its particular strength in public law children work. The group routinely collaborates with the firm’s criminal law practice, enabling the team to advise on care proceedings where there are parallel criminal cases, often involving serious medical issues and allegations of abuse. The ‘exceptional‘ Nicola Chamberlain heads the practice, also qualified as a family mediator.