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Mr Liam Kelly

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Work Department

Liam is a door tenant at 5SAH and a member of our family law team.

Position

Liam is a door tenant at 5SAH and a member of our family law team. Liam practices from Deans Court Chambers, Manchester. Liam specialises exclusively in Family Law. He is recognised in Chambers and Partners 2024 as “Up and Coming” with an impressive and growing practice in family law.

Liam specialises in private children proceedings and financial remedy proceedings.

Liam was shortlisted for Family Law Young Barrister of the Year in 2021, Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year in 2022 and 2024, and Barrister of the Year 2024 in the inaugural Manchester Resolution Awards.

He has been recognised as a Leading Junior in the 2024 inaugural listing of leading Manchester Children Law Barristers by Doyles.

Career

Children Law

In his children practice, Liam acts for parents and children (through their Children’s Guardian) in private law proceedings and is regularly instructed in respect of children’s living arrangements involving allegations of parental alienation, domestic and sexual abuse, specific issues with regards to schooling, travel overseas, immunisations and relocation both at home and abroad. Liam has also been instructed to appear in the High Court in respect of international abduction proceedings, matters invoking the Inherent Jurisdiction in respect of medical treatment and appeals from the Family Court.

Financial Remedies

In his financial remedy practice, Liam represents parties and intervenors in proceedings involving the distribution of assets following the breakdown of a relationship. He regularly undertakes FDA’s, FDR’s and Final Hearings, as well as interlocutory applications for Maintenance Pending Suit, Legal Services Provision Orders, Disclosure Orders, as well as proceedings for enforcement and reviewable dispositions. Liam is a regular contributor to the Financial Remedies Journal.

Memberships

• The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• Northern Circuit
• Family Law Bar Association
• Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Education

Appointments

• Attorney General’s Junior Junior Barrister Scheme
• Advocate (Formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit)
• Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

Awards

• Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year 2024 (Shortlisted) – Advocate
• Barrister of the Year 2024 (Shortlisted) – Manchester Resolution Awards
• Pegasus Scholarship 2023 – The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year 2022 (Shortlisted) – Advocate
• Family Law Young Barrister of the Year 2021 (Shortlisted) – Lexis Nexis
• William James and Mary Spence Award – University of Leeds
• Major Scholarship – The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award – The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
• Advocacy Scholarship – BPP University Law School
• Regional Programme Leaders Scholarship – BPP University Law School