Barbara Mills KC > 4PB > London, England > Barrister Profile

4PB
6th Floor, St Martin’s Court, 10 Paternoster Row
LONDON
EC4M 7HP
England
Barbara Mills photo

Position

Specialist family practitioner with an emphasis in complex children’s cases in the higher courts. Extensive experience advising and acting for parties in private law proceedings, often with an international element, in the High Court. Family mediator and collaborative counsel.

Represented Women’s groups in H v N and Others (Children) (Domestic abuse : finding of fact hearings) [2021] EWCA Civ 448

Career

Called 1990, Silk 2020; Recorder 2012.
Arbitrator
Mediator
Co chair of the Bar Council’s Race Working Group
Co editor of the International Family Law Journal
Governing Bencher Inner Temple

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association; South Eastern Circuit; Resolution (Association of women barristers; Fellow of IAFL; ALC).

Education

University of Hull (LLB).

Lawyer Rankings

London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse

(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3

Barbara Mills KC4PB ‘Barbara is extraordinarily insightful and has an unmatched ability to identify the real issues in a case and address them head-on. Her written and oral advocacy is forceful and persuasive, and she always has the respect and ear of any tribunal.’

London Bar > Family: private FDR judges and arbitrators

(leading Private FDR Judges and Arbitrators)Ranked: Tier 1

Barbara Mills KC – 4PB ‘Barbara thoroughly prepares for cases and has a clear grasp of complex issues. She is an expert in children’s law and empathetic to parents in difficult and stressful situations.’