Family

Our Family team has recently benefitted from strong recruitment of experienced barristers. We offer strength in depth in these fields:

  • Matrimonial Finance
    The preservation of assets, their distribution on separation, divorce and between co-habitees; inter-jurisdictional disputes, injunctive relief.
  • Children
    Care proceedings, residence and contact, international child abduction, adoption, inter-jurisdictional disputes.
  • Civil partnerships
  • Capacity
    Mental health and declaratory relief.
  • Public and Administrative
    Judicial review, tribunals, social and health care ethics, policy, practice and procedure.
  • Education and special needs
  • Inheritance Act
  • Professional Liability
  • Mediation

We believe that we are part of a team acting in the best interests of the client.

'Deans Court Chambers is home to an enviable number of first-rate advocates' - Chambers UK, 2005
 

The Team

CLIVE HEATON QC
SUSAN GROCOTT QC
ALAN BOOTH
JANE CROSS
LOUISE BANCROFT
FRANCES HEATON
KAREN BRODY
HEATHER HOBSON
BANSA SINGH HAYER
JULIA CHEETHAM
ALISON WOODWARD
PETER ROTHERY
CAROLYN BLAND
SASHA WATKINSON
VICTORIA HEYWORTH
ANNA BENTLEY
FLEUR KENNEDY