Samantha’s practice covers all areas of family law with a particular emphasis on matrimonial finance and private child law; she regularly appears in complex and high value matrimonial finance cases as a junior to QEB’s Silks and to Silks in other Chambers. She also regularly appears in complex cases without a leader. She has successfully appeared against Silks in both children and money cases. Samantha is consistently recommended as a leading junior in both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500. Samantha wins praise as a ‘confident advocate who punches above her weight’. She offers ‘recognised excellence in high-value matrimonial finance cases’ and is also described as ‘utterly tenacious’, ‘absolutely super’ and ‘an extremely bright, tenacious and articulate advocate’. In terms of international experience, Samantha spent six weeks in 2010 observing practice in the USA (Washington DC and Northern Virginia), as an Inns of Court Pegasus Scholar.
Qualified 2004; Gray’s Inn. Samantha has been published widely, including: ‘Financial Provision: a second bite at the cherry’, Family Law Journal (14 December 2006/January 2007); ‘No 62 Charman v Charman (No 4) [2007] 1 FLR 1246’, The Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law (p155, vol 30, no 2 (2008)); ‘Integrating Diversity’, collected papers of the Dartington Hall Conference; ‘What Provision for unmarried couples should the law make when their relationships break down’, Bracewell Essay [2009] 39 Fam Law 234 (co-edited with Rt Hon Thorpe LJ, published by Jordans, 2008). Samantha has been published widely, including: ‘Financial Provision: A Second Bite At The Cherry’, Family Law Journal p14 no 62; Charman v Charman (no 4) [2007] 1 FLR 1246, The Journal of Social Welfare & Family law p155 Vol 30 No 2 2008; ‘Integrating Diversity: The Collected Papers of the Dartington Hall Conference’, edited by the Rt Hon Lord Justice Thorpe and Samantha Singer); and ‘What Provision for unmarried couples should the law make when their relationship breaks down?’, Bracewell essay [2009] 39 Fam Law 234.
Family Law Bar Association.
Samantha obtained a First Class Law degree at Bristol University. She was subsequently a Prince of Wales Scholar of Gray’s Inn and won the 2008 Bracewell Essay Prize awarded by a select panel of judges, including Wilson LJ (now Lord Wilson), on behalf of the Family Law Bar Association.