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Chambers of Matthew White
St John's Chambers
101 VICTORIA STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 6PU
England
St John's Chambers
101 VICTORIA STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 6PU
England
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Sophie Smith-Holland
Work Department
Family Law – children, finances and domestic abuse
Career
Call : 2015
Sophie is a specialist family law practitioner with a thriving junior practice across all of our family law practice areas, including:
- Children Private Law
- Children Public Law
- Divorce & Financial Remedies
- Part IV Family Law Act 1996
- Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989
- ToLATA 1996
Sophie is the co-author of the Financial Remedies Update in the FLBA’s “Family Affairs” magazine.
Sophie worked for two years in the family team of a highly respected national law firm assisting on children cases. She also spent a period of time working on public law children cases in the Children’s Services Legal Team at a Local Authority in the South West and volunteering with the National Centre for Domestic Violence.
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
- Western Circuit
Education
- University of Law BPTC – Very Competent
- University of Sussex LLB (Hons)
- “Highly Commended” prize – Bar Council’s Law Reform Essay Competition (2017)
- Joseph Jackson Scholarship (Major Award) – Middle Temple (2014)
- Blackstone Entrance Exhibition – Middle Temple (2014)
- Scholarship – University of Law (2014)
- Winner – The Crown Prosecution Service Mooting Competition (2013)
- Sophie has completed the FLBA Vulnerable Witness Advocacy Training