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Olivia  Gaunt

Olivia Gaunt

4PB, London

Work Department

Court of Protection - Financial Remedies; International Children Law; Private Children Law; Public Children Law

Position

Overview

Olivia is rapidly building a busy practice across all areas of family law, having joined chambers as a tenant in October 2022 following the successful completion of her pupillage.

Olivia appears regularly in the High Court, Family Court and before Lay Justices. Olivia has conducted appeals in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, and she has appeared both led and unled.

Olivia is a co-author of ‘The Brief’, a monthly financial remedies update published in the Family Law Journal.

Olivia was shortlisted for ‘Young Barrister of the Year’ at the 2024 Family Law Awards.

Prior to commencing pupillage, Olivia worked as a paralegal in the Divorce and Family department at Stewarts for over a year, where she assisted on high-net-worth financial remedies matters and private children law matters.

Olivia previously volunteered with the Personal Support Unit (now Support Through Court), with the National Centre for Domestic Violence and with the Schools Consent Project.

Career

Awards

Shortlisted for Young Barrister of the Year – Family Law Awards (2024) Exhibition Award – Inner Temple (2018) Advocacy Award – BPP (BPTC, 2018) Pro Bono Award – BPP (BPTC, 2018) Academic Scholarship and Rosalind, Lady Carlisle Prize – Girton College, University of Cambridge (2015)

Memberships

The Honourable Society of The Inner Temple FLBA

Education

BPP University: Bar Professional Training Course – Very Competent (2019) BPP University: Graduate Diploma in Law – Distinction (2018) University of Cambridge: Human, Social and Political Sciences, BA – 2.1 (2017)

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