Since joining Fenners Chambers in 2010, Abigail has developed a busy family law practice covering both private and public law children work and financial remedy proceedings.Her areas of practice include:• Public Law Children: care and adoption proceedings including those involving non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, neglect, drug and alcohol misuse, and mental health issues.• Private Law Children: applications for child arrangement orders, including those involving allegations of domestic violence, emotional and sexual abuse, specific issue and prohibited steps orders, internal relocation and leave to remove from the jurisdiction and abduction• Family Law Act Applications: non-molestation and occupation orders• Financial Remedy: all matters of divorce and financial remedy including maintenance pending suit; enforcement proceedings, cases involving interveners, and claims involving unmarried couples under TOLATA and Schedule 1 of the Children Act
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Alasdair specialises in property law. His practice covers:Freehold property: all aspects including boundaries, easements, adverse possession, restrictive covenants, land registration, unregistered land & title problems, trespass and nuisanceCommercial Landlord and tenant: all aspects including renewal, assignment, forfeiture and dilapidationsResidential Landlord and Tenant: all aspects including possession, unlawful eviction, forfeiture, enfranchisement, dilapidations, assured and secure tenanciesTrusts of Land: express, constructive and resulting trusts, TOLATA claims and estoppels.Mortgages: possession actions, enforceability, undue influence and priorityProperty-related professional negligence
Alicia joined Fenners Chambers in September 2019, having successfully completed her pupillage in chambers. Her areas of practice include:Family Law: Before joining chambers, Alicia spent time working as a family and childcare paralegal at a London based firm of solicitors. She now has a growing practice in family law, with a focus on public children care cases. Personal Injury: Alicia has represented clients at a range of personal injury hearings, including fast track trials, small claims trials, stage 3 hearings and infant settlements.
Freehold property; commercial leaseholds; contentious trusts and probate; agricultural and rural law; planning and local government administration; property-related professional negligence. Recent cases include: White v Williams, Number 1 [2010] WTLR 1083; Number 2 [2011] WTLR 899; Mitchell v Secretary of State [2013] EWHC 1849 (Admin). Several recent agricultural and land development mediations.
Tony was educated at City of London School and Queen Mary College, London and was called to the Bar in 1980. His expertise has been consistently acknowledged by his inclusion in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for many years.Family Law: Matrimonial finance. Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and Inheritance(Provision for Family and Dependant’s) Act 1975 Negotiating settlements/attending round table meetings. Drafting ante nuptial agreements. Children Act 1989.
Araba Taylor is a general Chancery practitioner. The focus of her practice is the family side of Chancery work, including co-ownership disputes, family businesses, family property, trusts and elderly client/capacity issues, wills and the administration of estates, interests in real property; and professional negligence. Re Walker (Deceased) [2014] EWHC 71 (Ch) – the test for testamentary capacity is the common law test in Banks v Goodfellow and not the test under the Mental Capacity Act 2005; Re Dharamshi (Deceased) [2013] EWHC 3917 (Ch) – severe grief reaction not sufficient for want of testamentary capacity; Re Tociapski (Deceased) [2013] EWHC 1770 (Ch) – will invalid for want of knowledge and approval, lifetime transfer of land set aside for presumed undue influence; Pinnock v Rochester [2011] EWHC 4049 (Ch) – successful appeal against striking out of probate claim, interaction of probate claim and compromise of earlier claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, procedure, case management; Re Allen (Deceased), Smith v Springford [2009] WTLR 705 – caveators’ application to discontinue claim for revocation of existing grant, will forgery, costs; Garland v Morris & anor [2007] EWHC 2 (Ch) – Inheritance Act application by adult child; Stephens v Michelin Pensions Trust Ltd [2006] EWHC 1640 (Ch) trustees’ duties; Greer v Alstons Engineering Sales & Services Ltd [2003] UKPC 46 – breach of contract/damages regarding contract for the sale of land; Spring v O’Flynn (1999) EGCS 79 – notices to complete; Re Raval, Jones v Raval [1998] BPIR 389 – bankruptcy/matrimonial home; Halifax Mortgage Services Limited v Muirhead [1997] EWCA Civ 2901 – mortgages/undue influence; R v Kensington & Chelsea Royal London Borough, ex parte Moncada (1996) 29 HLR 289 – intentional homelessness.
Since joining Fenners Chambers in 2016, Benjamin has quickly developed a busy practice specialising in family law.Family Law: Private Law Children Act disputes; matrimonial finance proceedings; cohabitation disputes; applications for non-molestation and occupation orders; public law care proceedings.
Real property, including residential and commercial landlord and tenant, easements, boundary disputes, restrictive covenants and land registration; specialisation in rural and agricultural-related matters, including agricultural holdings, commons registration and public rights of way; trust, wills, probate (including Inheritance Act claims) and general equity. Gainsborough-Field v Hyde [2005] EWHC 2229 on the meaning of ‘agriculture’ for the purposes of an express right of way; Wilson v Specter Partnership [2007] EWHC 133 (Ch) on contentious business agreements under s59 of the Solicitors Act 1974; Pease v McMillan [2009] EWCA Civ 258 on transfer of entitlements in the contract for sale of land; and Silkstone v Tatnall [2010] EWHC 1627 (Ch) on ability of a party to withdraw from proceedings before the adjudicator.
Carlo joined Fenners Chambers in 2011 following the successful completion of his pupillage and undertakes a broad range of Family Law work including:Financial Remedy Proceedings: FDA’s, FDR’s, Final Hearings, Injunction Applications, Enforcement ProceedingsCohabitation: TOLATA and Schedule 1 Children Act Proceedings
Crime: general crime. Grade 3 prosecutor and on CPS Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel. Housing: with an emphasis on anti-social behaviour and mental health issues. Reported case of R v Joyce.
Family law specialist. Financial relief disputes and private law arrangements for children.
Areas of practice:Property Law: matters including possession hearings, ASBO injunctions and other regulatory offences, such as unlawful eviction (both civil and criminal), HMO licensing and allegations relating to fire safety. He has extensive experience of matters relating to the statutory control of residential dwellings under the Housing Act 2004. He regularly appears in the Residential Property Tribunal.Public Law: he has extensive experience in all manner of cases involving Local Government (such as abatement notices and the implementation of civil penalties etc). Also, civil actions against the police (including actions for the return of property held by the police), judicial review, appeals to tribunal (such as the social entitlement chamber).Crime: the full range of criminal law including serious multi-handed offences such as international money laundering allegations. He has acted as leading Counsel in a large-scale multi-handed drug conspiracy and international money laundering.
Clare joined Fenners in 2017 having successfully completed her pupillage in Chambers. Prior to her pupillage Clare had spent time as a drafting lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in the UK division. She had also worked as a Court Advocate representing individuals in Employment Law proceedings.Crime: Prosecution and defending in the Crown, Magistrates and Youth Courts. General crime, motoring offences and sexual offences.Family Law: Public law children proceedings, Private law children applications, divorce.Property Law: Residential Landlord and Tenant and Environmental Law.
Clive’s practice is concentrated on the following areas: Property: freehold property; residential and commercial leases; property-related professional negligence; trusts.Probate & Inheritance: contentious probate and Inheritance Act claimsFamily: financial remedy claims; schedule 1 of the Children Act; financial disputes between former cohabitants.Significant reported cases: Brighton & Hove City Council v Audus [2009] EWHC 340 (Ch); mortgages; clog on the equity of redemption; proprietary estoppel; Central Bedfordshire Council v Taylor and others [2009] EWCA Civ 613; possession; trespassers; human rights; Garbutt v Edwards [2005] EWCA Civ 1206; costs (in relation to a boundary dispute); indemnity principle.
Daniel Owen specialises in marine public law, ie the law that governs our use of the world’s seas and oceans. His practice covers international, EU and UK law and includes marine planning and licensing, fisheries management and marine protected areas. Daniel’s practice is mainly advisory and includes both contentious and non-contentious work. His clients include companies, environmental non-governmental organisations, public bodies and intergovernmental organisations. He has advised clients on the legal aspects of a wide variety of sea uses.
Public family law – Daniel has developed a substantial care practice representing parents, family members, local authorities and children. He has regularly appeared in the High Court and recently was instructed to defend an application under the court’s inherent jurisdiction to restrict the publishing of material in a particularly sensitive matter. He is experienced in cases concerning non-accidental injury, sexual abuse and neglect. He has been praised for his patient and sensitive approach, particularly when dealing with vulnerable clients. Private family law – as well as regularly dealing with disputes concerning child arrangements orders, Daniel is often instructed in cases concerning removal from the jurisdiction and child abduction. Recently, he has been asked by the local judiciary to assist in the training of the local lay justices of the Family Court in such matters. Financial proceedings – Daniel also advises and represents clients in all matters of divorce and financial family law (including TOLATA) and has an excellent record at settling cases without needing to resort to a final hearing.
Davide joined Chambers in 2017 after working as in-house counsel for a local firm of solicitors. He has a broad common law practice specialising in criminal, family and civil law.Davide also has a keen interest in sports law. He was appointed as a Chairman on the Football Association Disciplinary (Anti Discrimination) Panel in 2013. He has also sat as a member of the Disciplinary Panel for England Netball.Crime: Davide has experience of defending clients in the Crown Court, Magistrates Court and Youth Court. He undertakes a full range of criminal law offences ranging from violence, drugs, dishonesty, and driving and regulatory offences.Family Law: care and adoption proceedings, private children applications and financial remedy proceedings.Civil Law: debt and contractual disputes, residential landlord and tenant disputes and injunctive relief. Davide has also represented clients at a range of personal injury hearings, including: small claims trials; stage 3 hearings and infant settlements.
A very experienced child care lawyer, who joined Fenners in 2008 having moved from chambers in London where she had practised for many years. Debra is the head of the Family Group at Fenners.Many of Debra’s cases involve allegations of serious physical and sexual abuse. Her practice includes cases of child abduction, adoption, residence and contact disputes.Debra is experienced in representing parents with mental health problems, addictions and learning difficulties.• Child care: regularly instructed in cases involving serious injuries to children and complex medical evidence• Vulnerable witnesses: experienced in cross-examining children and other vulnerable witnesses• Europe: regularly involved in cases involving children from other European countries where issues of jurisdiction under Brussels II (Revised) arise
Specialising in criminal law, Diane joined Fenners Chambers in the summer of 2017. Her areas of practice include:Offences of dishonesty: Theft, burglary, fraud and blackmail, whether relating to low value or multi-million pound allegations.Drug offences: All range of matters from production for personal use to multi-handed conspiracies linking participants across the country. Including the representing of the vulnerable who have become involved through pressure or as a consequence of their own additions.Violent offences: Inflicting and causing grievous or actual bodily harm both with and without intent, kidnap, false imprisonment and robbery matters.Sexual offences: Rape, all types of sexual assault, indecent images and breaches of subsequent protection orders.Proceeds of Crime proceedings: Applications for restraint orders and confiscation orders. Significant experience in making submissions to reduce either the benefit or available amount.Prison Law and Parole hearings: Attending for adjudications and parole hearings for those serving IPP sentences.
Areas of practice:Property: landlord and tenant (private and social landlords), anti-social behaviour injunctions, commercial leases, TOLATA disputes, adverse possession, dilapidations and covenants and easements.Commercial: contractual disputes, debt, insolvency, sale of goods and consumer creditProbate: will disputes including issues of testamentary intention and capacity, undue influence, validity, construction, want of knowledge and approval, fraud, and the administration of estates including claims against personal representatives
Crime: Ellena regularly receives instructions to prosecute in the Magistrates’ Court; is a Grade 1 Prosecutor in the Crown Court and has a growing practice in Magistrates’ Court defence work.Personal Injury: Ellena has a significant practice in the County Court inclduing the following -• Infant Approval Hearings• Stage 3 Quantum Approval HearingsPublic Law: Ellena has a significant practice in the County Court including the following -• Road Traffic Accidents (including credit hire)• Contract disputesFamily Law: Ellena regularly receives instructions for public children care cases and her private family law practice is growing. She is able to receive instructions in both private children and ancillary relief matters.
Emma has specialised in criminal law throughout her career. She has vast experience and a remarkable, proven track record in successfully defending those charged with serious offences.Areas of practice:Sexual offences: rape and sexual assault.Violent offences: Kidnap, false imprisonment, robbery, inflicting and causing grievous bodily harm.Drugs offences: including multi-handed conspiracies to supply.Offences of dishonesty: Theft, burglary and fraud.
Family Law: accepts instructions on the full range of private law children cases including child arrangements, special guardianship, specific issue disputes and relocation.Eve also accepts instructions in all areas of public law children law cases representing the local authority, parents and children.Public Law: Eve accepts instructions to appear at Inquests for families, medical professionals and organisations.
Gemma qualified as a solicitor in 2005, a duty solicitor in 2006 and achieved higher rights of audience in 2007 in both civil and criminal disciplines.Crime: In criminal work she has undertaken the prosecution and defence of:• Serious sexual offending including rape, sexual assaults and offences involving the indecent images of children, • Offences involving drug and alcohol related offending • Serious offences of violence including murder • Offences of child neglect.Family Law: She has extensive experience representing young and vulnerable clients with learning difficulties, mental health conditions and addictions, and has completed The Advocates Gateway training. Public Law: She has experience in regulatory law especially in the area of healthcare. Her areas of practice include:• Representing NHS England, East Anglia Area Team from March 2014 to date, as Performer List Support Officer utilising The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013• Finance and Property Issues Panel Appeals
Commercial litigation: recent cases have included success at trial in a claim worth almost £150,000 for breach of contract/negligence which resulted in damage to electrical equipment at a large commercial premises. Insolvency – recent cases have included a successful appeal in the High Court on the issue of whether an interim order should have been granted under s252 of the Insolvency Act 1986: Singh v Singh (unreported, ChD, Proudman J, 8 February 2013). Property: ongoing involvement in a commercial dilapidations claim worth over £100,000. Personal injury – advised on and concluded settlements in several claims worth between £100,000 and £700,000. Employment: successfully pursued and defended multiple claims relating to unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE transfers, breach of contract/unlawful deduction of wages. Recent cases have included two successfully defended costs applications.
Care and adoption (care proceedings): all types of hearing in the Family Court and the High Court. Ian often represents difficult and vulnerable clients and parties from different jurisdictions. Ian has appeared in the High Court in numerous cases of importance and has experience of cases involving serious non-accidental injury (NAI), sexual abuse and child trafficking. Private law: all matters under the Children Act 1989 including cases where there has been a guardian instructed or there are third party intervenors. Ian has been instructed in a number of complex and challenging cases. Ian is an experienced appellate advocate and was reported in Re W (a child) [2012] EWCA Civ 1307. Child abduction, international law and injunctions: Ian’s practice includes international areas of work. His cases include matters under the Hague Convention, Brussels IIR, matters of habitual residence as well as a wide range of injunction work. Finance: Ian undertakes a wide range of finance work including financial order applications (ancillary relief), TOLATA and Schedule 1 Children Act cases.
Jim has specialised in criminal, regulatory, personal injury and related matters. He has particular interests in proceeds of crime applications; criminal appeals; courts martial; and work that involves the Mental Health Acts.Commercial Law: includes international agency, partnership, insolvency, contractual issues and sale of goodsCrime: environmental offences; local authority prosecutions; CPS prosecutions; defending in cases of drug cultivation, importation and possession; offences against public order; offences of violence; firearms; courts martial; licensingPersonal Injury: in particular, cases involving low velocity collisions and workplace injuries
Jeff is an experienced lawyer specialising in family law and personal injury. He practised with Northampton Chambers for a number of years before joining Fenners in 1999. Jeff appears in the County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal.Family Law: Including financial remedies; Schedule 1 Children Act matters; and inheritance claimsPersonal Injury: a broad scope, including workplace and highways claims; occupational illness; fatal accidents and road traffic claims
Family Law: private children applications, financial remedy proceedings, Court of Protection proceedings, domestic violence injunctions, care and adoption proceedings, financial disputes between former cohabitants.Probate and Inheritance: contentious and non-contentious probate and Inheritance Act claims.Property Law: Landlord and tenant disputes, TOLATA claims, anti-social behaviour injunctions.
Joe McKenna has a wealth of experience in criminal practice, personal injury and is well acquainted with the Chancery Division.Joe is well known for his expertise in successfully defending those accused of serious sexual offences. He has achieved manifold acquittals in high profile historic familial abuse and rape trials, historic rape and other grave sexual matters.
Crime: Prosecuting and defending in the Crown Court and the Magistrates' Court; drugs offences; weapons offences; violence; sexual offences; general crimeFamily Law:• Financial Remedy: all matters of divorce and financial remedy including maintenance pending suit; enforcement proceedings, cases involving interveners, and claims involving unmarried couples under TOLATA and Schedule 1 of the Children Act• Family Law Act Applications: non-molestation and occupation orders• Private Law Children: applications for child arrangement orders, including those involving allegations of domestic violence, emotional and sexual abuse, specific issue and prohibited steps orders, internal relocation and leave to remove from the jurisdiction and abduction
Areas of practice:Personal Injury: all areas of personal injury litigation including advising in writing and in conference.Commercial: negligence; contractual disputes; debt recovery; sale of goods/supply of goods and services; personal and corporate insolvency; enforcement including advising in writing and in conference.Family: Private Children applications, Non-molestation Orders, Occupation Orders, Family Law Act Applications and Financial Remedy Proceedings.
Katharine Ferguson has specialised in family law for many years. She deals with financial claims, private law disputes involving children and domestic violence.Her specific expertise includes:Financial orders on divorce: ranging from cases in which there are businesses, overseas property, pensions or other significant assets to those in which family finances are more limited. Recent cases have involved allegations that assets have been concealed or dissipated, arguments about the significance of pre-marital assets and concerns about the capacity of vulnerable elderly clients.Financial claims by cohabitants under TOLATA 1996 and Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989Child arrangements orders (formerly residence and contact): including cases in which there are issues about drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, implacable hostility and mental heath.Specific issue orders in respect of education: including home education.Permission to remove a child from the jurisdiction to live abroad or for holidays.
Katharine takes on heavyweight financial remedy work involving various company structures, trusts, jurisdiction conflicts and foreign issues.Family Law: She has been undertaking children work for over 20 years, and has a wide experience of issues surrounding alienation, high conflict cases, domestic abuse and same sex relationships.
Laura joined Fenners in September 2012 having successfully completed her pupillage in chambers. Her expertise includes:Personal Injury: all areas of personal injury litigationFamily Law: private law children applications; financial remedy proceedings; divorce; and applications for non-molestation and occupation orders
Liam offers comprehensive legal knowledge, practical advice, and robust advocacy.His areas of practice include:Commercial: Contractual disputes; construction disputes; debt recovery; claims based on economic torts, on mistake and misrepresentation, on bailment, and for money had and received; equitable remedies; unjust enrichment claims; sale of goods/supply of goods and services; personal and corporate insolvency; company law; cases turning on limitation points.Employment: Advocacy, drafting, and advisory work in respect of employment tribunal disputes, including experience in the EAT. Experience of unfair dismissal; discrimination cases; TUPE; whistleblowing; employee status disputes; maternity claims; wages and breach of contract claims.Probate and Inheritance: Advocacy, drafting, and advice across the whole range of probate work, including contentious probate, Inheritance Act claims, trusts claims, and actions relating to the administration of estates.Property: particularly landlord and tenant and trusts disputes, but also matters such as restrictive covenants, agricultural law, and leasehold enfranchisement.
Property: freehold property; formal and informal trusts, including claims between cohabitants; boundaries and easements; residential and commercial leases; property-related professional negligenceProbate & Inheritance: Contentious probate and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; trusts and joint ownership of property; real property issues, including easements and boundary disputes.
A senior member of the Family Team, Meryl Hughes is a highly experienced lawyer in all aspects of family law relating to children.Areas of practice include:• Injunctions• Divorce• Care cases involving infant death, physical, emotional or sexual abuse of children, and neglect of children• Abduction of children abroad• Foreign adoptions• Forced marriage• Permanent removal of children from the jurisdiction
A member of Fenners Chambers since 2002 Michael is a Grade 3 CPS Prosecutor. He is an experienced criminal lawyer who both prosecutes and defends in the Magistrates and Crown Courts in all areas of Criminal Law including the whole range of violent, sexual, drugs and dishonesty offences. As a former Magistrates’ Court advisor between 1999-2002, Michael also specialises in road traffic cases (particularly those involving serious injury or fatalities). He has other expertise in the following areas:Criminal Law: Michael has extensive knowledge of the different styles of advocacy required to operate effectively for clients or agencies in front of a wide range of tribunals including the Crown Court, Magistrates’ Courts and Local Authorities and Councils. Amongst his specialisms are social services disclosure work in criminal proceedings and Public Interest Immunity work.Cash Seizure and Anti-Social Behaviour Orders: Michael has expertise in both prosecuting and defending cash seizure proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act and prosecuting and defending proceedings involving Anti Social Behaviour. Public Law: Michael has successfully conducted applications, transfers and appeals in relation to the Licensing Act 2003 and hearings in relation to Traffic Commissioners hearings and taxi licensing.
Employment: restrictive covenants, discrimination, whistle-blowing, unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissalPublic law: road transport, environmental, health and safety, licensing, consumer protection, director’s disqualification, education appeals, professional disciplinary proceedings and licensingCrime: environmental, health and safety, confiscation, fraud, road transport, road traffic.
Shipping and aviation law, including: fatal accident and personal injury claims arising out of marine and aviation accidents and service in HM forces; charterparty and shipbuilding claims; marine cargo claims, salvage arbitrations and collision actions; marine and aeronautical engineering claims; insurance claims for lost vessels and for lost and damaged marine and air cargoes; Seaboard Offshore Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport – the leading House of Lords case on the criminal liability of corporations for the safe operation of ships; pilot authorisation reviews, including Sea Empress; and criminal proceedings against marine and aviation personnel.Areas of practice:Commercial law: His practice has a particular focus on, but is not limited to, shipping and aviation lawPersonal injury law: Marine and aviation accidents; workplace accidents; injuries in the armed forces
Complex matrimonial finance cases: particularly cases that utilise his background as an accountant, ie, those involving issues of valuation or liquidity of businesses interests; significant pensions or trusts. Also TOLATA, Schedule 1 Children Act claims and commercial.
Family law: acting for a parent of a child who sustained severe burns in the bath; securing costs against the local authority in private law proceedings; successfully defending a father against allegations of sexual abuse made by his five-year-old daughter.
Polly is a very experienced child care specialist. She joined Fenners in Spring 2017, after 25 years as a local authority childcare lawyer.Family Law: Polly specialises in Child Care Law
Commercial Law: Robin undertakes work in all aspects of business and property. As a CEDR-accredited mediator, Robin looks for pragmatic and cost-effective solutions. At the same time, when the need arises, Robin is a tenacious and effective court room advocate.Employment Law: Robin has appeared for workers and employers, both business and public sector, at all levels from internal disciplinary hearings and inquiries to the Appellate Courts. His practice has covered the full range of work in the employment tribunals and above, as well as employment-related claims in the civil courts.
Family and matrimonial/public law with particular interest in judicial review proceedings relating to social care provision. Experience of work in the Court of Protection, mental health and community care. Significant cases: R (RO) v East Riding of Yorkshire Council [2011] EWCA Civ 196; Re H (A Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 72; LB v London Borough of Merton and Anor. [2013] EWCA Civ 476.
Sarah specialises in family law relating to children.Her specialisms in Family Law include:• Public Family Law: sexual abuse, multiple non-accidental injuries and parents with disabilities.• Private Law Children: particularly in cases with an element of domestic violence• Domestic Violence Injunctions• Financial Proceedings
Family law: with a focus on public children care cases. She also regularly advises and represents clients in private children, Court of Protection and TOLATA matters, as well as domestic violence injunctions. Property: accepts instructions to advise and represent clients across the full range of property law matters, from initial enquiry through to final hearing.Commercial: practices across a broad variety of commercial and consumer law, but has particular experience in claims under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, contractual disputes and claims founded in negligence.
Specialist in public law, notably education, planning and employment. Regularly appears in the Employment Tribunal, Employment Appeal Tribunal, Special Educational needs and Disability Tribunal (SEND) and at planning inquiries. Clients include local authorities, NHS bodies, police, schools and small businesses.
Employment: Acts for both Claimants and Respondents in Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunals.Personal Injury: Employer's liability, road traffic.Property: Boundary disputes, rights of way and easements, possession and forfeiture hearings, service charge disputes, housing disrepair claims, Leasehold disputes, Fraud and undue influence in relation to mortgages.
Suzy Shackleford was called to the Bar in 1980 as a member of Inner Temple. She practiced for twenty-five years in London initially from New Court Chambers and latterly from One Garden Court. She specialises in public law children's cases and, when in London, acted for Local Authorities, parents and children. She did very many High Court wardship cases and frequently undertook cases for the Official Solicitor, a number of them high profile. After making her home in Norfolk she joined Fenners Chambers in 2014 and continued to undertake public law children cases, acting particularly for Guardians on behalf of Children.
Areas of practice:Commercial & construction law: non-litigious and contentious work, particularly in the construction and engineering sectors, including allegations of professional negligence by construction professionals and commercial solicitorsArbitration: as arbitrator and as representativeAdjudication: as adjudicator and as representative
Leading the Criminal Team at Fenners Chambers, Tim Brown combines his aptitude for criminal law with a strong interest in public law care work. He is a Grade 3 prosecutor, accredited to prosecute rape and sexual offences. He is also on the Courts Martial defence list.Crime: Tim practises throughout the criminal jurisdiction but principally in the Crown CourtFamily: care work where the basis of the application arises out of alleged criminal conduct