St John’s Chambers is a ‘first-class set of chambers that offers suitable counsel for a variety of cases’ related to family law. Lucy Reed KC is a ’tenacious and extremely thorough advocate’ whose practice contains a mix of public and private children law cases, including adoption matters, while Judi Evans specialises in representing local authorities, parents and guardians in public law proceedings and garners praise for ‘excellent attention to detail’. Abigail Bond ’inspires confidence in clients with her approachable and reassuring manner’ and has longstanding experience of handling care cases involving vulnerable witnesses and parents with learning disabilities. Caroline Elford is an ‘excellent and principled practitioner’ who regularly represents clients before all tiers of the family justice system in cases of serious physical and sexual abuse of children.
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- 'Marcus Harding and Luke Hodgson are very helpful.'
- 'Elaine Jewell-Moore and Marcus Harding are fantastic and always available to help.'
- 'Elaine Jewell-Moore and Marcus Harding are a credit to chambers.'
- 'St John’s Chambers has good strength in depth both about the spectrum of expertise and different levels of seniority.'
- 'St John’s Chambers has a wide range of barristers, able to cover cases with consistency.'
- 'St John’s Chambers is a great set of experienced family barristers.'
- 'St John’s Chambers has a great depth and breadth of counsel who are experts in their field.'
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