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.

1GC Family Law

1GC Family Law is a leading set of barristers' Chambers, specialising exclusively in family law. Renowned for excellence in advocacy, legal expertise and client service, 1GC members are instructed in some of the most complex and high-profile family cases in the UK and internationally. 1GC barristers appear regularly at all levels of court, including the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, covering public and private children law, matrimonial finance, international family matters and Court of Protection. Renowned for their deep legal knowledge and commitment to client care, 1GC barristers are committed to delivering clear, strategic advice and outstanding representation and to working collaboratively with solicitors and clients to achieve the best outcomes by combining compassion with rigorous legal analysis. The award-winning Clerking team at 1GC is widely recognised as one of the most professional, responsive and client-focused in the field. Led by Paul Harris, the team is known for its efficiency, attention to detail and is committed to upholding Chambers’ high standard of service and professionalism. As a set 1GC takes pride in fostering a progressive and inclusive culture and in supporting the professional development of their members and employees.

2DRJ

Situated in the heart of the Inner Temple, 2DRJ have built and continue to develop a solid and powerful reputation as a Chambers specialising in both Family and Criminal Law. This is a reflection of our dedication to excellence, unwavering commitment to our clients, and the expertise we offer across our practice areas. The trust and respect we've garnered over time are a direct result of the hard work, professionalism, and integrity of our barristers. We take pride in our ability to consistently deliver exceptional results, often in complex and highly sensitive cases. What truly sets us apart is our unique blend of legal expertise, strategic thinking, and personalized service that we provide to each client. By focusing on understanding their individual needs, we tailor our approach to ensure the most effective representation. As we continue to grow and expand, we remain committed to maintaining the high standards that have allowed us to establish such a powerful standing in the legal field. It’s this combination of expertise, client-first mentality, and a dedication to excellence that has positioned our chambers as a trusted and reliable name in law.

4PB

4PB is one of the largest chambers in England and Wales, practising only in the field of Family Law, comprising 26 ‘silks’ and 64 ‘juniors’, a total of 90. 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. We are leaders in our field recognised each year by numerous legal accolades and awards, including Family Law Chambers of the Year at both the Chambers and Partners UK Bar Awards 2024 and the LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2024.

Our barristers are supported by a first-class team of clerks, practice managers and administrative staff, headed by the Director of Practice & Business Development, Michael Reeves and Chambers Manager, Furhana Mallick.

7BR

7BR is an established and leading multi-disciplinary set of Barristers’ Chambers with national and international reach, working across a diverse group of practice areas from its home at 7 Bedford Row. The set is recognised for its breadth of specialisms and consistently receives strong rankings across multiple practice areas in the Legal Directories. 7BR’s Family Law barristers regularly undertake the most complex cases, representing individuals and public bodies at first instance hearings through to appellate jurisdiction. Our barristers are experienced in Care Proceedings and Adoption, Court of Protection, Private Law Children Proceedings, Family Finance and Divorce and International Family Law, with our barristers often appearing in the Court of Appeal and Family Courts. Members of the team pride themselves on the ability to facilitate the testimony of children in a sensitive matter and there is considerable experience within the family law team in respect of acting for teenage clients or adult clients with learning difficulties. Several of our family barristers contribute regularly to conference and seminar programmes, often speaking on important and timely topics. Members of the team are known for their friendly and empathetic approach to all areas and aspects of family law.

18 St John Street Chambers

Based in Manchester for over 50 years, 18 St John Street is one of the most highly regarded chambers on the Northern Circuit. With 44 members, which includes Specialist FDR Judges, the Family Law department at 18 St John Street is one of the largest in the north of England, boasting a wide range of expertise across the whole spectrum of family law. Case highlights over last 12 months include several appearances for our team in the Court of Appeal and our notable cases involve: serious sexual abuse, life threatening and fatal non-accidental injuries, deprivation of liberty, factitious illness, transgender, learning disabilities, and parental alienation as well as high value financial remedies. 18SJS is renowned for our friendly, approachable demeanour and excellent client care is at the heart of everything we do. Our client-focused approach extends to our clerking team who are regularly praised for ‘going the extra mile’ to ensure that client requirements are fully met.

AlphaBiolabs

Drug, Alcohol & DNA testing for legal matters

At AlphaBiolabs our customers trust us to provide the highest possible standard of service, and fast, accurate results. 

We are proud to sponsor the Family Law Community Interaction Award once again, as we understand the importance 
of making a marked difference to the communities in which family law operates.

Our Giving Back charity donation campaign is testimony to this, where we support local communities, by donating to charities
that are close to the heart of our clients.

And here are a few more reasons to trust AlphaBiolabs for your Drug, Alcohol & DNA testing…

•    Rapid results from our UK laboratory
•    Widest range of drugs tested
•    User-friendly reports accepted in every UK family court
•    Hair, nail, urine and oral fluid samples analysed
•    ISO 17025 UKAS-accredited testing laboratory (No. 2773)
•    Member of the Society of Hair Testing with analysis carried out to internationally agreed standards
•    All pricing within Legal Aid Agency rates
•    Price Match Promise – we will beat any like-for-like quote by 5%
•    Expert advice and a dedicated Case Manager to fully manage your instruction
•    Innovative and FREE Drug Screen Plus service
•    Sample collections from any location within 24 48 hours of instruction
•    FREE legally-instructed sample collections at our nationwide Walk-in Centres

Contact details

0333 600 1300
testing@alphabiolabs.com
 

Cansford Laboratories

Fast. Trusted. Proven.
 
Cansford Laboratories is the UK’s fastest drug, alcohol, and DNA testing lab – fully UKAS-accredited and award-winning. We deliver court-admissible results in just three working days from sample arrival. That means if we collect on Monday, you’ll have results by Friday – no delays, no drama. With over 30 years of experience supporting family law professionals, we’re the go-to choice for speed, reliability, and expertise.
 
Need results you can rely on? Let’s talk.
 
For a quote contact: info@cansfordlabs.co.uk or call: +44 (0)29 2054 0567

Deka Chambers

Deka’s Family Team continues to thrive, with specialist barristers practising across the full breadth of family law. The team is highly regarded in both Public and Private Law Children matters and is recognised for its approachable, conscientious approach and consistent delivery of excellent outcomes.
 
Our barristers appear regularly in the Family Court and High Court, often involved from the earliest stages of proceedings through to final and fact-finding hearings. The team is adept at handling urgent and short-notice matters, including applications for Emergency Protection Orders, Deprivation of Liberty, and other proceedings under the Inherent Jurisdiction.
 
In addition, our barristers are experienced in complex cross-border children cases. This includes matters involving jurisdictional disputes (in both public and private law), the recognition and enforcement of foreign orders, 1980 Hague Abduction Convention applications, cases involving female genital mutilation and forced marriage, international adoption, international relocation, and issues under the 1996 Hague Convention.
 
As part of a multi-disciplinary set, our family law expertise is further strengthened by collaboration with colleagues in other practice areas—enabling a comprehensive approach when cases intersect with civil or criminal law.
 
The team is supported by an award-winning clerking team, recognised in the 2024 legal directories for their outstanding service and support

DNA Legal

For over 20 years, DNA has established itself as the UK’s leading provider in exceptional toxicology testing. Our UK-leading expert report interpretations ensure the most accurate representation of service user substance use/misuse across the industry, ensuring justice for families. From drug, alcohol to DNA testing - our dedicated client managers will make your life simple as we organise the entire process for you.

Family Law Group

Family Law Group is a dedicated firm of solicitors specialising exclusively in Family Law. With offices across the Midlands and South, we provide expert legal support to individuals and families during their most challenging times. Our team combines specialist knowledge with a compassionate, practical approach, ensuring clients receive clear guidance and strong representation.  

As a firm, we are proud to be accessible and approachable. We offer services funded by legal aid wherever available, alongside privately funded options, making high quality legal advice open and accessible to all. Our solicitors are members of Resolution and accredited specialists in their fields, reflecting our focus on constructive, client centred solutions. 
 

At Family Law Group we understand that every family is unique. Our aim is to provide tailored advice and support to help clients move forward with confidence and security.
 

Hamblin Family Law

Hamblin Family Law was founded in 2023, by leading family Lawer, Georgina Hamblin, as a boutique firm specialising in high net worth divorce, financial remedy, and children matters. In just over a year, the firm has earned national recognition for its transparent pricing, ethical practice, and client-focused approach. 
 

From one Founding Partner to a team of 13 within 2 years, the firm’s growth reflects both its reputation and demand for its services. Hamblin Family Law was the first in the industry to guarantee fixed fees for any client who wishes, even in the most complex cases. This is a pioneering step that has set new standards for accessibility and certainty in family law.

Guided by the principle of representing clients as we would wish to be represented ourselves, the firm offers expert and empathetic legal support through life’s most difficult transitions. With a compassionate and experienced team, Hamblin Family Law has quickly established itself as one of the most trusted names in family law.

Harcourt Chambers

With a proud heritage dating back to the early 1800s, Harcourt Chambers stands as one of the UK's most established and highly regarded specialist family law sets. Based in London’s historic Temple and in Oxford, Harcourt is home to over 70 barristers, including leading KCs and rising stars, all dedicated exclusively to family law.
Renowned for its depth of expertise in both public and private children law, Harcourt is regularly instructed in some of the most complex and sensitive cases, including international child abduction, relocation, adoption, and cases involving serious allegations of abuse, non-accidental injury, and child death. The set also has a strong reputation for its work in international family law, including transnational spousal abandonment and jurisdictional disputes.
Harcourt’s financial remedy team continues to grow in prominence, acting in high-value and intricate cases involving trusts, businesses, and overseas assets. The chambers also leads in Alternative Dispute Resolution, offering arbitration, mediation, private FDRs, and early neutral evaluation, supported by bespoke ADR suites at its Temple and Oxford locations.
The clerking team, led by Chambers Director Simon Boutwood and Senior Clerk Matthew Molloy, is known across the profession for its exceptional service, approachability, and attention to detail—ensuring a seamless experience for solicitors and clients alike.
With a legacy built on excellence, advocacy, and innovation, Harcourt Chambers remains at the forefront of modern family law.

Lextox

Lextox is the UK’s preferred laboratory for drug and alcohol testing in family law. Supporting over 17,000 practitioners every year, Lextox understands the complex and unique needs of the profession. Whether the case requires hair drug and alcohol testing, blood alcohol testing, DNA testing or ongoing abstinence monitoring, Lextox has a service that can help. With a vast team of dedicated client managers, Lextox’s hassle-free service is fully managed from the moment the client instructs testing to results delivery and beyond. Included in the service is advice on testing types, liaising with donors when necessary and answering results queries. If needed, Lextox can also provide expert witnesses to attend court. Established in 2011, Lextox is an ISO 17025 UKAS accredited testing laboratory (No. 7516) and one of the first UK laboratories to become Lab51 compliant, ensuring processes meet stringent regulations. Lextox has long been an advocate for those working in family law and is excited to be sponsoring the award for Family Chambers of the Year.

Mishcon de Reya

Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm with a presence in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore and Hong Kong. The firm’s work is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning seven core practice areas. At the heart of Mishcon de Reya’s family practice is a unique and varied team of specialists, built to meet the needs of modern families. The team protects the interests of families throughout all life stages, offering expert advice on inter-generational wealth preservation and relationship breakdowns, and recognising the complexities faced by modern families. The Family team is also committed to Non-Court Dispute Resolution (NCDR), promoting constructive alternatives to litigation to help families resolve issues with minimal conflict.

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.

ParentAssess

ParentAssess is the most widely recognised and accepted specialist parenting assessment framework in England, currently being utilised by over 80% of Local Authorities. The framework is versatile and can be used to assess any parent at any stage from early intervention to care proceedings. It can be undertaken with or without a cognitive assessment. Established in 2016 by Sarah Lowe, ParentAssess emerged from a need for a more supportive, flexible assessment model that could be easily understood by families and those working in family law. 
 
The framework operates in accordance with the Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 guidance. Our principles are aligned with this guidance, emphasising the importance of building positive, trusting, and cooperative relationships with parents and carers to provide tailored support to families. ParentAssess is recognised in the Good Practice Guidance on Working with Parents with a Learning Disability (Bristol University, 2021) as a good practice framework.
As well as our main training, we now offer additional workshops across the UK and internationally to support and develop all working with parents and families

Ringrose Law

More Than 100 Years of Trusted Legal Guidance Across the East Midlands With over a century of experience, Ringrose Law stands as one of the East Midlands' largest and most respected multidisciplinary firms. We operate from nine offices—in Boston, Grantham, Lincoln, Sleaford, Newark, Peterborough, Grimsby, Sheffield, and Nottingham—ensuring our clients receive expert help wherever they are. Our team helps both individuals and businesses, offering dedicated services in family law, children law, domestic abuse, residential conveyancing, wills & probate, discrimination, personal injury, and medical negligence. We’re proud to maintain LEXCEL accreditation for the seventeenth year running, alongside multiple Law Society panel memberships, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to best practice, client care, and legal excellence. At Ringrose Law, our philosophy of “where individuals count” isn’t just a tagline—it’s how we work. Our solicitors listen closely to your needs, act with compassion, and go above and beyond to deliver outstanding results Whether you're planning your future, facing a legal challenge, or buying your home, Ringrose Law is here—trusted, caring, and expert advice.

RWK Goodman

RWK Goodman provides a comprehensive range of legal services from family and private client, corporate and commercial, to clinical negligence and personal injury and advises in a number of key sectors.
 
A UK Top 100 full-service law firm, RWK Goodman has offices along the M4 from London to Bristol, with over 600 people. The firm is a founding member of the international network of independent law firms, Interleges. The firm’s clients include individuals, often in the public eye, through to multi-national FTSE companies.
 
RWK Goodman is home to a highly experienced Family team with expertise in all areas of family law including separation and divorce, division of financial assets and property, arrangements for children, pre-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, domestic violence, injunctions, and international family law. The Family team has an exceptional practice advising on complex private children law proceedings, including international child abduction, cross-border contact disputes, as well as forced marriage, cross-border adoption and surrogacy. The team also has a first-class public law offering, acting for parents and extended family members.
 
RWK Goodman’s Family team is part of the firm’s Private division aimed at HNW individuals whose success and wealth has brought added complexity into their legal needs. We offer specialist services including reputation protection and privacy, conditional exemption tax incentives on heritage assets, non-domicile and international tax and matrimonial matters, senior executive employment and immigration advice, company merger and acquisitions, and advice to the racing and bloodstock industry.

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 265th 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.

St Mary's Chambers

St Mary’s is a specialist family set based in Nottingham. We were the first, and remain the only, specialist family law set based out of London. We have 45 full tenants, two door tenants and several associate members. We offer the full range of family law services, predominantly in the East Midlands, but also into the West Midlands and neighbouring circuits. We are the first-choice chambers for local solicitors in all areas of family law work. We are actively committed to all areas of family law, providing representation and advisory services to our large client base in both privately funded and legally aided cases. Our commitment is underpinned by our three annual conferences for each key area of family law: Public Law, Private Law and Financial Remedies which are attended by the local Judiciary, solicitors and other family law professionals. We supplement this with monthly webinars and regular in-house roadshows delivered to our clients. We are routed in the core of legal excellence in the East Midlands. Our reputation far exceeds our ever-increasing size and we are trusted to provide expert advice to a multitude of solicitors and their clients.