
4PB
Barristers

Olivia Gaunt
- Phone020 7427 5200
- Email[email protected]
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)