
1 Hare Court
England
Barristers

Mia Purdy
- Phone020 7797 7070
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Position
Mia accepts instructions in all areas of private family law, including financial remedies, private children work, and applications under the Family Law Act 1996.
Mia is developing a practice in all aspects of financial proceedings, including matrimonial finance, enforcement, variation, applications pursuant to TOLATA 1996, and applications under Schedule 1 Children Act 1989. Mia also regularly accepts instructions in private children disputes, including issues relating to declarations of parentage and parental responsibility, fact-findings and allegations of domestic abuse, and relocation (both domestic and abroad).
During pupillage, Mia assisted her supervisors and other members of Chambers on various high-value financial remedy cases, including undertaking complex bank account and financial disclosure analysis.
Mia has experience working closely with solicitors. Prior to commencing pupillage, she worked as a paralegal at a leading specialist family law solicitors’ firm in London. More recently, in 2023, Mia spent 8 weeks on secondment at another leading boutique family law firm where she assisted with numerous cases.
Career
Call 2021
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association
- Lincoln’s Inn
Education
Qualifications
- Durham University, LLB Law, First Class Honours
- BPP Law School, London, Bar Professional Training Course
Scholarships, awards and prizes
- Leo Blair Prize for Advocacy, Durham University Law School (2019)
- Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn (2019)
- BPP Advocacy Scholarship, BPP Law School (2019)