Children Private Law, Children Public Law, Divorce & Financial Remedy, Part IV Family Law Act 1996
Call : 2015
Sophie is a specialist family law barrister, recognised as a leading junior in both the Legal 500 and Chambers UK across all her areas of expertise:
Children – private law (including international cases)
Divorce and financial remedies (including Schedule 1 and international cases)
Part IV Family Law Act 1996 (family homes and domestic abuse)
Sophie regularly appears in courts across the South West and London, including the High Court and has recently appeared in the Court of Appeal in the reported case of J v Bath and North East Somerset Council & Ors [2025] EWCA Civ 478. Sophie is one of the co-authors of the financial remedies update in the FLBA’s “Family Affairs” publication.
Recent articles:
Financial remedy update: Summer 2025
Financial remedies update – May 2025
Sophie has contributed to Family Law Week and our Family Law Podcast channel and she regularly delivers seminars / training to solicitor clients.
Recent podcasts:
Case law update #3 – pFDR privilege and adverse inferences
Case law update #4 – Parties to discharge of SGO and approach to fact-finding decisions
What is the position on domestic abuse as ‘conduct’ in financial remedy proceedings?
Recent seminars:
Divorce and financial remedy case law update
Taking a Stand(ish): has matrimonialisation gone too far?
The intersection between coercive control and parental alienation
Before coming to the Bar, 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.
Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)
Western Circuit
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