1GC | Family Law

The ‘excellent’ 1 GC | Family Law houses a variety of members who are active across arbitration, mediation, PFDR, and ENE. One such member is family law specialist Janet Bazley KC, who boasts expertise in both children and financial remedy cases and is praised as ‘empathic’. David Burles specialises in financial remedy cases, including divorce and Schedule 1-related proceedings with a ‘delightfully urbane manner’. ‘Extremely fair-minded’, Claire Heppenstall sits as a private FDR judge in cases surrounding financial remedy and children-related ENE cases, and she is also a qualified family mediator. All three named barristers are IFLA arbitrators.

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'Paul Harris is brilliant. Extremely personable and helpful and just gets the job done.'
'Great. Very impressive clerking.'
'Very supportive.'
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'An excellent set.'
'1GC is a very efficient, well-run set.'

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KCs at the very top of their field, with a long-established record of market-defining cases, and widespread endorsement from clients and peers. All silks appointed in the last two rounds are listed further below.