Sponsors

42BR

Headline Sponsor

Over the last year, 42BR's Family team membership has grown to consist of over 60 specialist barristers. The team covers the full spectrum of family and matrimonial law, with acknowledged strength in Public and Private Law Childcare matters. The team has a growing reputation in Financial Remedies and are specialists in International and Humans Rights, Child Abduction and Adoption Act Applicants.

Our committed team of clerks are dedicated to providing outstanding levels of service and support to all our clients and recognise the distressing nature of family law proceedings. We explore all avenues, both court and non-court based, to minimise the financial and emotional stresses of disputes. Most recently we have introduced a specialist ADR team, offering private FDRs, mediation, and family arbitration to ease the burden family separations can have on individuals.

1 Crown Office Row, Brighton

1 COR is home to specialists in Public and Private Law Children, Financial Remedies and DV & Injunctions. The team comprises 43 advocates who excel in their field. 1COR is able to offer strength in numbers and expertise from KCs to Junior members. 

In addition, we offer significant expertise in Children Arbitration. Our team assist families resolve disputes more quickly and affordably than going to Court.

Members of the family team ensure they are approachable, and sensitive to the client’s needs.  Based in a central Brighton location our Chambers are conveniently located close to the major family centres of Sussex.

1GC

1GC Family Law is the biggest specialist Family Law set in London with 102 barristers practicing across the full spectrum of family law matters. Members are foremost experts in Public and Private Children Law and we have a leading Financial Remedies team. We have considerable strength in our NCDR offering, with numerous practitioners who are, mediators, qualified arbitrators and sit as private FDR judges in some of the best facilities available for this in London. 2024 is Chamber’s 35th anniversary year and Chambers continues to lead the way developing the landscape of family law with a modern and forward-looking ethos.

4PB

4PB is one of the largest chambers in England and Wales, practising only in the field of Family Law, comprising 25 ‘silks’ and 67 ‘juniors’, a total of 92. Our barristers practise across all areas of family law. Instructed by the country’s premier family law firms, our practitioners are regularly involved in landmark developments in family law and family justice.

AlphaBiolabs

AlphaBiolabs is one of the UK’s leading and award-winning providers of DNA, drug and alcohol testing services for family law cases.

We are delighted to sponsor this year’s Family Law Community Interaction Award once again, as we recognise the significant contribution that law firms, chambers, councils and charitable organisations make to improving life for those within their local communities.

Cansford Laboratories

Cansford Laboratories is an award-winning and pioneering drug, alcohol and DNA testing laboratory. 

UKAS-accredited and based in the UK, we are the fastest drug and alcohol testing laboratory, returning 99% of results within 3 working days of receipt. So if you instruct us on a Monday, you’ll have the results by Friday of the same week.

We’re also proud to offer exceptional customer service – providing expert case support at every step and a professional collections service of over 50 collectors local to wherever you are - and not forgetting Expert Witness court-admissible results and reporting. How else can we help lighten your workload?

• We deliver test results quicker than any other UK lab, so you can manage your workload and stay ahead.

• Apply for a quote by phone or online and we’ll provide one within two hours. Meaning the test can be booked in on the same day.

• Our unique hair testing method requires the smallest possible cutting from your client, and we also offer a fingerprick PEth blood test for needle-free collection (perfect for needle-phobes)

• Our Cansford collections agents cover the whole of the UK, and collect from your clients place of choice: home, GP surgery etc.

Read more here how Cansford can help ‘lighten the load’ for family law professionals, with our rapid 3 working day sample turnaround times.

Telephone number: +44 (0)29 2054 0567 | Email: infor@cansfordlabs.co.uk

Class Legal

Class Legal have been industry leading experts in Family Law since 1992, when we published the first edition of At A Glance. 

Since then, we have gone on to provide a range of tools and books, written and edited by experts, which family lawyers still rely on to this day. Our focus now is to provide effective cloud-based tools, helping you to futureproof your practise in the fast moving and ever-changing world of technology. Our cloud-based tools offer effective remedies to the time-consuming workload most family lawyers face. 

Our core product, Quantum Cloud, won Innovative Practice Management at the Legal Innovation Awards 2022 and has been announced as a finalist for Family Law Innovation of the Year in the LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2023. 

Evelyn Partners

Evelyn Partners is the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group; our award-winning team help individuals achieve financial stability after a significant life change. We draw on firm-wide specialist expertise in financial planning, forensic accountancy and valuations, tax, pensions and investment management, to provide a coordinated proposition for family lawyers, mediators and their clients.

We generally assist during the pre-settlement and early stages of a divorce. Whether it be financial forecasting or financial coaching to assist with negotiations, expert witness reports (both pensions and business valuations), or navigating complex Lifetime Allowance pension issues, our divorce experts are committed to helping clients achieve the best outcome for their long-term financial stability.

Goodman Ray

Goodman Ray is one of the leading family law firms; with a national and international reputation for its work in children and family law. Goodman Ray offers a first-class service across the full spectrum of family law, including matrimonial finance, cohabitation, international adoption, surrogacy, child abduction, forced marriage injunctions and children law.

Goodman Ray’s straightforward and innovative approach is welcomed by clients and is demonstrated by its lawyers’ involvement with other professional organisations. Clients are assured of expert representation by lawyers who will fearlessly fight their corner while sharing the firm’s child-centred ethos and promoting alternative dispute resolution where appropriate.

Harcourt Chambers

Harcourt Chambers is a long established and highly respected family law set based in Temple since the early 1800’s. Renowned for its expertise in children law, both private and public, international work and financial remedy. Our members include some of the most respected names in the fields of public and international children law. 

Harcourt is particularly recognised for their expertise in; international abduction, transnational spousal abandonment, international adoption, international relocation and disputes centred around complex medical evidence, often involving abuse, non-accidental injury and child death.

We have a growing reputation in financial remedy and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and this year have added an ADR suite to our Temple location.

Harcourt boasts a tight-knit clerking team who have worked together for many years under the exceptional leadership of Simon Boutwood and Matthew Molloy. Their collective expertise ensures a seamless and professional service.

Hunters Law

Since 1715 Hunters has been working closely with individuals, businesses, trusts, charities and organisations of all kinds to advise on legal issues. Some of these relationships go back generations. 

Every client is different, but they all share one thing: they trust Hunters to get to know their situation inside-out, and support them with a dedicated, partner-led team.

Named as one of The Times’ Best Law Firms 2024, Hunters is particularly known for its family, property and private client law practices, and offers highly specialised advice in arts and heritage law and the charity sector.

Level

Level is the leading UK-based lender specializing in family and probate law. We provide bespoke funding solutions to help clients manage legal and living expenses during proceedings.  Our team of in-house lawyers and industry experts ensures a responsive, personalized service to guide clients through challenging times with efficiency and empathy. Level has been consecutively top-ranked by Chambers and Partners for its excellence in litigation funding.

Earlier this year, Level acquired the Tower Street Finance brand - the market leader renowned for its innovative financial solutions in the probate sector. This acquisition enhances Level's service offerings and expands its market reach, solidifying its position as a top litigation funder. 

Lextox

Lextox is a member of the SYNLAB Group, the leading medical diagnostic services provider in Europe. At Lextox we provide drug, alcohol and DNA testing services and SCRAM continuous testing for family law cases and child care proceedings. Established in 2011 by Experts from within the UK hair testing industry, our mission is to provide the most responsive, client oriented service and reliable results. Lextox results are analysed within a domestic UK Lab accredited under UKAS 17025 with the important UK Lab 51 Quality standards.

New Court Chambers

We are a forward-looking, specialist family law chambers, offering high quality legal services to our publicly funded and private clients and providing expert legal advice across the full range of family law work.

Chambers has a long standing and well established reputation in acting for local authorities, parents, other family members and children in all aspects of public law childcare work appearing in high profile and often complex cases. We also provide specialist advice and representation in the fields of matrimonial finance (including disputes between cohabitees), Court of Protection work and Private Law children work, including cases with an international dimension.

As a Chambers, we pride ourselves on offering a consistent, professional and high quality service to our clients at all levels. Our friendly and approachable team of clerks aims to offer a dedicated and reliable service, tailored to the individual needs of each individual client.

OurFamilyWizard

OurFamilyWizard is a co-parent communication platform to assist parents before, during, or after the divorce and separation process. It provides a safe and neutral environment for communication to be monitored whereby key issues about the child(ren) can be resolved. OurFamilyWizard is regularly used by parents who are going through the court process to resolve their child arrangement and finance matters. It is also regularly used by those who are using out-of-court resolution methods to support parents with their communication and prevent them from returning to court, where applicable.

Pinney Talfourd

Pinney Talfourd’s family team are handpicked, specialist family lawyers. Ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500, we are one of the largest family law teams in Essex where our team routinely handle high value, complex work for clients in Essex, London and abroad.

Our size ensures that each client receives the best possible advice and service, tailored to their individual needs. Each member of our firm has particular specialisms and areas of interest, so we ensure that we match our clients to lawyers who fit their exact requirements to ensure that each client has the support they require.

Our approach to family law is simple. We take the time to understand our clients’ needs and priorities so we can support them during this difficult time. In short, we work to ensure that the priorities of our clients and their families become our priorities and work as a team to achieve them.

Sills & Betteridge

Independently recognised for outstanding results and service, Sills & Betteridge LLP is a full-service personal and commercial services law firm now heading into its 265^th year.

Unrivalled regionally in many areas of practice, they have 18 offices in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the East Midlands.  

The Legal 500 recognises Sills & Betteridge LLP as a Leading Law Firm with the Family Team achieving the highest accolade of ‘Top Tier’ status. The firm is currently position 160 in the UK200 Independents Report placing the practice among the UK’s best performing law firms.