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Sophie Smith-Holland

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Work Department

Family Law – children, finances and domestic abuse

Career

Call : 2015

Sophie is a specialist family law practitioner with a thriving junior practice across all of our family law practice areas, including:

• Children Private Law
• Children Public Law
• Divorce & Financial Remedies
• Part IV Family Law Act 1996
• Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989
• ToLATA 1996

Sophie is the co-author of the Financial Remedies Update in the FLBA’s “Family Affairs” magazine.

Sophie worked for two years in the family team of a highly respected national law firm assisting on children cases. She also spent a period of time working on public law children cases in the Children’s Services Legal Team at a Local Authority in the South West and volunteering with the National Centre for Domestic Violence.

Memberships

• Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
• Western Circuit

Education

• University of Law BPTC – Very Competent
• University of Sussex LLB (Hons)
• “Highly Commended” prize – Bar Council’s Law Reform Essay Competition (2017)
• Joseph Jackson Scholarship (Major Award) – Middle Temple (2014)
• Blackstone Entrance Exhibition – Middle Temple (2014)
• Scholarship – University of Law (2014)
• Winner – The Crown Prosecution Service Mooting Competition (2013)
• Sophie has completed the FLBA Vulnerable Witness Advocacy Training