Frankie Shama Successfully Obtained a Summary Return Order to the USA in a Hague Convention case.
Frankie Shama, instructed by Helen Blackburn of The International Family Law Group, represented the applicant’s mother in summary return proceedings under the 1980 Hague Convention. Frankie successfully obtained a summary return order to the USA in respect of the 14-year-old child, despite the child’s objections to returning. The court rejected the respondent father’s argument that the applicant mother was not exercising her rights of custody whilst in hospital at the time of the child’s removal.
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4PB Welcomes 2024/25 Pupil Cohort
We are delighted to extend a warm welcome to our exceptional pupils, Imogen Watkins, Ciara Coleman, and Josephine Moreton, who join chambers today.
4PB Celebrate 75 Years of Women Silks at the Bar
4PB is delighted to support, mark and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first women silks being appointed to the Bar. As a leading set of family law barristers’ chambers, 4PB is proud that of its current 25 silks, 13 are women, each of whom are extraordinary professionals and one of whom is our current joint head of chambers and vice chair of the Bar Council. We all recognise the debt owed to the women barrister pioneers who made this possible so that now our profession better attracts the most talented regardless of gender.
Click here to read about the event, which took place at the Royal Courts of Justice, to celebrate 75 years of women King’s Counsel.
Alexandra Halliday writes for the Law Society Gazette
Alexandra Halliday, provides a review of Roux v MA, a case looking at whether or not the court has the power to strike out an application to set aside financial remedies consent orders.
Mani Singh Basi’s book reviewed in the Law Society Gazette.
The Law Society Gazette review ‘A Practical Guide to Exercising the Inherent Jurisdiction in Family Proceedings’ authored by Mani Singh Basi, describing it as a ‘slim volume’ that ‘covers a good deal of ground’.