Date: 13 May 2026

Starts: 9:00 am

Ends: 5:00 pm

Venue: We The Curious

Location: 1 Millennium Square, One Millennium Square, Anchor Rd, Bristol BS1 5DB

Cost: Half day: £50 + VAT and full day: £85 + VAT

CPD Points: 5.5

Our Family Law Children team will be hosting a full day public and private law conference on Wednesday 13th May at We the Curious in Bristol, which is kindly sponsored by AttoLife.

The day will be split into two sessions, public law in the morning and private law in the afternoon.

We look forward to welcoming our keynote speaker, Annmarie Carvalho, founder of TCC and author of Staying Sane in Family Law.

The conference will provide the latest procedural, case law and legislative updates from experienced lawyers and is recommended to all busy family law practitioners.

Topics include:

Ticket prices:

Full day ticket: £85 + VAT

Morning public law ticket: £50 + VAT

Afternoon private law ticket: £50+ VAT

People

Lucy Reed KC

  • Call: 2002
  • Silk: 2023

Lucy is a children law specialist and has practised in family law throughout her professional career. Her practice spans all areas of children work at trial and on appeal. In public law children cases, Lucy acts for parents,...

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Sarah Philimore

Sarah Phillimore

  • Call: 1994

Sarah was called to the Bar in 1994 and since 1999 has worked as a specialist family lawyer in Chambers in London and Bristol. She specialises in all aspects of children law and Court of Protection work. Sarah...

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Caroline Elford

Caroline Elford

  • Call: 2002

Caroline is a specialist family barrister who practises in all areas of family law with a strong emphasis on care proceedings. Her practice in this area has given her a detailed knowledge of the appropriate procedural law and...

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Julia Belyavin

Julia Belyavin

  • Call: 2003

Julia specialises in children law, both public law and private law cases. Her public law practice focuses on complex care cases. Recent instructions have included cases where the principle allegations were sexual abuse and/or inflicted injuries, as well...

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Olivia Pike

Olivia Pike

  • Call: 2008

Olivia is a family law barrister, specialising in public and private law cases concerning children. She was called to the Bar in 2008 and practised in Cardiff, before joining St John’s Chambers in 2018. Olivia represents local authorities,...

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Asha Groves

  • Call: 2013

Asha practises in all aspects of the law relating to children. She is experienced in complex private and public child law cases involving the full range of issues including allegations of physical and sexual abuse, inflicted injuries, intractable...

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Ryan Morgan

  • Call: 2017

Ryan specialises in public and private children law work. He represents local authorities, parents and children in complex proceedings, including cases involving non-accidental injury, fabricated illness, sexual assaults and child death. Ryan is ranked in Chambers UK and...

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Sophie Smith Holland

Sophie Smith-Holland

  • 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...

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Liberty Crawford

  • Call: 2019

Liberty is a specialist family law practitioner, with a busy practice involving both public and private children law, and applications under Part IV a Family Law Act 1996. Areas of expertise: Children Private Law Children Public Law Part...

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Georgina Swinglehurst

Georgina Swinglehurst

  • Call: 2019

Georgina is a specialist family law barrister who acts in all areas of private family law, specifically financial remedy proceedings, private children disputes, issues of jurisdiction including international child relocation, cohabitation disputes and applications under the FLA 1996...

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Vivien Croly

  • Call: 2019

Vivien is a specialist family law barrister practising in all aspects of family law. Vivien has recently been nominated for ‘Family Law Young Barrister of the Year’ at the Family Law Awards 2024. Areas of expertise include: Financial...

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Diana

Diana M. Panizzon-Pineda

  • Call: 2021

Diana is a specialist family law barrister practising in all areas of children law and domestic abuse. Her areas of expertise include: Children Private Law Children Public Law Part IV Family Law Act 1996 (domestic abuse) She is...

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Chelsea Bartlett

Chelsea Bartlett

  • Call: 2021

Chelsea is a specialist family law practitioner, with a focus on public and private law children disputes. Areas of expertise: Children Private Law Children Public Law Part IV Family Law Act 1996 Court of Protection Chelsea is regularly...

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Jenny Wilson

  • Call: 2021

Jenny accepts instructions in all areas of family law including: Children Private Law Divorce and Financial Remedies Part IV Family Law Act 1996 Children Public Law Jenny has a busy practice representing clients in financial remedies and Children...

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