Family

 

Our Team

The Zenith Family Group of Barristers are one of the most talented and approachable teams in the North, ever mindful of the sensitivity of this area of law, and providing an excellent service to clients in Children (public and private law), Matrimonial, Cohabitation and Ancillary Relief matters, as well as issues relating to Trusts and Probate. With specialists at every level of seniority, the Family group benefits from the advice and mentoring skills of Clive Heaton QC.  Clients requiring less experienced practitioners profit from a particularly strong junior team.

 The Family Group members are always happy to offer preliminary advice to professional clients by phone.  Call the family clerking team on 0113 245 5438, or email civil@zenithchambers.co.uk and ask for one of the family specialists to contact you.


Continuity of Barrister

We strive to ensure that the barrister of choice is available throughout your case, and that any issues surrounding counsel’s availability are discussed with the instructing solicitor at the earliest opportunity.

CPD Accredited Seminar Programme

The Wine & Wisdom series of talks is to start again in February 2010, although we will be holding these on a fortnightly basis, rather than weekly. We will be publishing the schedule in January 2010, and once again we will be covering topics relating to Children as well as financial provision on divorce / separation.

Our Annual Conference is to take place on the 26th March 2010. The programme centres around the impact of domestic violence on the children. We are again using the beautiful setting of Rudding Park for this full day's conference..

Our Forced Marriage Conference, co-hosted by Switalksis and Zenith to mark the publication of a special bulletin written by solicitor Razia Jogi and Clive Heaton QC and Louise McCallum that was held in Bradford on the 23rd November 09, was extremely successful. Since then, Louise has had a number of articles published which may be of interest : the links are below:
The Solicitor's Journal : 8 December 2009
Family Law Week
Local Government Lawyer : 21 November 2009 : 
... an online magazine written exclusively for lawyers working in Local Government

The Zenith Family Group are also providing in -house talks to firms upon request (to teams of 6 or more) on a range of subjects relating to any aspect of Family Law. Please contact Hannah to discuss your requirements on talks@zenithchambers.co.uk

Our Family Barristers are also involved in information sharing and training programmes for both commercial training organisations and professional associations and we are always keen to know how we can meet the training needs of family lawyers and legal executives. 

Visit our seminar area to find out about more upcoming CPD accredited talks offered by the Family Barristers. 
Click here to request a barrister on line

As members of the Family Law Barristers’ Association, the team strongly supports its aims as well as those of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors’ Family Law Association).