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Christie O'Connell

Christie O'Connell

1 Hare Court, London

Position

Christie is a family law specialist accepting instructions across the spectrum of private family law, including financial remedies, private children work, child maintenance appeals, TLATA, and applications under the Family Law Act 1996. She has experience representing clients from first to final hearing at all levels up to and including the High Court.

Publications:

Christie is a contributor to the Financial Remedies Journal, in which she provides summaries of recent cases of interest. Alongside her practice, she also delivers seminars and lectures to firms across the country.

Career

Called 2022

Memberships

Memberships 

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple Inner Temple LGBTQIA+ Society Family Law Bar Association Resolution

Positions

Treasurer of the Inner Temple Junior Barristers Association Inner Temple Retention & Return to Practice Working Group committee Freebar committee (the Bar’s LGBTQIA+ network)

Education

Qualifications

BPP Law School: LLM & BPTC (Distinction) King’s College London: BA Religion & Politics (First Class Honours) University of Sydney: Study Abroad Programme (First Class Honours)

Scholarships, Awards and Prizes

Jarman Advocacy Prize – Inner Temple – Awarded to the best advocate in the 2022/23 cohort of Inner Temple Pupils Major Bar Course Scholarship– Inner Temple Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award Inner Temple Major GDL Scholarship – Inner Temple Career Commitment Scholarship – BPP Law School Broadening Horizons Award – King’s College London

Personal

In addition to her work in chambers, she continues to regularly undertake pro bono work with Advocate, and the Islington Legal Advice Clinic. In 2024, she received a nomination for Young Pro Bono Barrister of the year and was featured in the inaugural Pro Bono Recognition List of England and Wales.

Leisure

Outside of work Christie enjoys playing and watching football. She is an avid theatre-goer and enjoys travelling and road trips in her Renault Kangoo Micro Camper.