Family Law – Public

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 practitioners dedicated to the representation of children, parents and wider family members. Individual barristers are ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

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

Delphine Breese-Laughran

Call:1991

Edmund Eldergill

Call:1991

Manjeet Kaler

Call:1993

Mary Hughes

Call:1994

Alison Harvey

Call:1994

Helen Monah

Call:1996

Tamara Muhammad

Call:1998
Jamaica:2011

Jonathan Adler

Call:1999

Ruby Sayed

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

Grace Cowell

Call:2018

James Anthony Shaw

Call:2018
Solicitor:2015

Clive Matthews

Call:2019
Solicitor:1981

Roshni Popli

Call:2019

Sarah-Jane Ewart

Call:2021

Alice Scanlan

Call:2021

Ashleigh Herbert

Call:2021

Tabitha Everett

Call:2021

Liam Evans

Call:2023

Savannah Sevenzo

Call:2023

News & Cases

R v Ashenafei Demissie

At the Old Bailey, Stephen successfully defended a cab driver accused of causing death and serious injury by careless driving in a public place.
Stephen Knight

R v TW (Court of Appeal (Criminal Division))

Stephen Knight secured the quashing of an IPP sentence.
Stephen Knight

R v Steven RICH (aka Steven WHITELAW)

Rebecca Martin succeeded in appealing against a sentence of imprisonment for public protection.
Rebecca Martin