Family Law – Private

With our expertise across all areas of family law, you will be glad to have One Pump Court barristers on your side. Our blend of fierce advocacy, sensitive advice and constructive dispute resolution, together with the friendly, professional service offered by our clerks, are all aimed at achieving a brighter future for you and your family.

We have built an excellent reputation as childcare practitioners dedicated to the representation of children, parents and wider family members. The Team is ranked in Legal 500 in the category of Children and Domestic Violence.

We also have a specialist finance team with extensive experience of litigation involving matrimonial finances, cohabitation, inheritance and the costs of raising children. We are committed to offering the highest quality advice and representation, whilst keeping legal costs under control ensuring value for money.

Our members and distinguished former members include judges of the High Court and Family Court, IFLA-accredited members of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, authors of leading practitioners’ texts, accredited mediators and winners of national awards. Members are trustees of national and local charities working in the field of law, domestic violence or human rights. Members regularly give practitioners’ seminars, and some hold (or have held) academic appointments.

Our team

James Presland

Call:1985

Abida Huda

Call:1989

Annie Dixon

Call:1991

Edmund Eldergill

Call:1991

Delphine Breese-Laughran

Call:1991

Manjeet Kaler

Call:1993

Alison Harvey

Call:1994

Mary Hughes

Call:1994

Helen Monah

Call:1996

Tamara Muhammad

Call:1998
Jamaica:2011

Ruby Sayed

Call:1999

Jonathan Adler

Call:1999

Charlie Peat

Call:2003

Stephen Bartlet-Jones

Call:2004

Philippa Hemery

Call:2009

Rachel Francis

Call:2012

Sam Elliott

Call:2014

Sophie Walker

Call:2016
Solicitor:2012

Catherine Philps

Call:2018
Solicitor:2016

James Anthony Shaw

Call:2018
Solicitor:2015

Grace Cowell

Call:2018

Roshni Popli

Call:2019

Sarah-Jane Ewart

Call:2021

Alice Scanlan

Call:2021

Ashleigh Herbert

Call:2021

Liam Evans

Call:2023

Savannah Sevenzo

Call:2023

News & Cases

R v SC (Woolwich Crown Court)

Kitan Ososami’s client was charged with a section 18 GBH (wounding with intent) and possession of offensive weapons.
Kitan Ososami

R v CR and KR [2025]

Dharsha secures acquittal of two hunt monitors charged with aggravated trespass
Dharsha Jegatheeswaran

R v MP and CP [2025] Successful appeal against convictions in football case

Dharsha and Grace successfully appeal multiple convictions of s4A threats and battery
Grace Cowell, Dharsha Jegatheeswaran