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Rachel Chisholm
Position
Rachel is a specialist family law barrister with a particular interest in the financial aspects of family breakdown and the arrangements for children after parental separation. She handles a broad caseload of financial remedy matters, including those brought under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989, and private law children. Rachel has wide-ranging experience of public law children matters. She has been led by Jane Probyn and Alison Grief in a number of lengthy fact finding hearings concerning fatalities or serious injuries caused to children. Rachel has also been led in the Supreme Court in the matter of A (Children) [2013] UKSC 60 by Baroness Scotland QC and Ruth Kirby on behalf of the Centre for Family Law and Practice. Rachel regularly represents clients in all levels of the family court and HighCourt. In 2014, Rachel was awarded a Pegasus Scholarship which enabled her to work with the legal charity ‘TRIAL: Tracking Impunity Always’ in Sarajevo, Bosnia for three months.
Career
Called 2010; Inner Temple. She worked as paralegal at the Children’s Legal Centre in London before starting pupillage. She also worked in the United States as an intern at The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans. She was called to the Bar in 2010. Awarded a BVC scholarship. Awarded a Pegasus Scholarship from Inner Temple in 2014 and spent three months in Sarajevo, Bosnia working with a legal charity ‘TRIAL: Tracking Impunity Always.’ I am also a trustee for the children’s education charity, Jacari. Publications of note: Presented in 2013 at the Sixth World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, Australia; ‘How we deal with intractable hostility cases in England & Wales: Effective remedies or sticking plaster?’; Co-Author, available at: http://www.lawrights.asn.au/6th-world-congress/papers.html.
Memberships
FLBA.
Education
Bristol University 2005-2008: Classics 2.1 (Hons); City University Law School 2008-2009: Graduate Diploma in Law: Commendation; BPP Law School, 2009-2010: Bar Vocational Course: Very Competent.
Leisure
Pottery, opera and the theatre.