Year of call
1985
5 Pump Court
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Shortlisted for Family Clerking Team of the Year
5 Pump Court are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for Clerking Team of the Year at the Family Law Awards 2019. Voting is now open on the Family Law Awards website.
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Join Us
Due to a significant surplus of work and a desire to expand, we are looking for high quality practitioners across all of our core areas of expertise: Civil, Crime and Family
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Direct Public Access Barristers
5 Pump Court has 40 qualified Direct Public Access Barristers with expertise in the following areas of law: Employment & Discrimination, Family, Property & Landlord & Tenant, Business & Commercial, Construction, Professional Negligence & Liability, Crime, Personal Injury.
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5 Pump Court Legal 500 2019
5 Pump Court is ‘excellent’ on criminal and regulatory work related to property and housing, including local authority prosecutions under the Housing Act 2004. The set also has expertise across the family and civil spectrums. The clerks’ room is ‘flexible and reactive’. I am also delighted for Onyója Momoh who has retained her band 4 ranking for Children's cases.
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5 Pump Court Seminar Program
We regularly provide in-house seminars to professional clients on a range of subjects within our core areas of Civil, Family and Crime. Please contact our clerks about any such requirements.
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Mark Eldridge succeeds in attempted murder trial
Mark Eldridge was successful in securing convictions of S18 against 2 defendants and perverting the course of justice for 2 others after a month long trial at Blackfriars Crown Court. The sentences ranged from 14 months to 14 years.
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Abimbola Badejo’s expert opinion on Nigerian Adoption Law accepted by High Court
In the reported cases of W v SSHD [2017] EWHC 1733 (Fam) & ELO and CLO v SSHD [2017] EWHC 3574 (Fam) both dealing with recognition of Nigerian adoption orders by the Courts in the UK
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Kemi Ojutiku Successful in Court Of Appeal
Kemi recently appeared in the Court of Appeal before Peter Jackson LJ and successfully resisted an application for permission to appeal against the decision of a Recorder by a Mother in respect of the interim removal of the subject children from her care. Kemi represented the Father who, together with the Children’s Guardian, had supported the local authority’s application for an Interim Care Order. There had been a long history of Private Law proceedings and the children were found to have suffered emotional harm.
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Dr Onyoja Momoh speaks at Family Law Conference
Dr Onyoja Momoh provided information regarding Domestic Abuse Bill and the Family Courts: update and insights for Practitioners, Coercive Control, New Legislation, Cafcass’ role, Fact Finding Hearings and compliance with the revised PD12J at the Family Law Conference
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Dr Onyoja Momoh at POAM project workshop
Onyoja Momoh co-organises the UK POAM project workshops (EU funded) on the intersection between domestic violence and parental child abduction, which took place on 28th & 29th May 2019, hosted by the University of Aberdeen.
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5 Pump Court takes part in London Legal Walk 2019
5 Pump Court took part in the London Legal Walk 2019 on 17 June 2019 raising money for charities that provide life changing legal advice and representation to those in need.
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Mark Eldridge successfully prosecuted a Section 18 stabbing
Mark Eldridge successfully prosecuted a Section 18 stabbing at Croydon Crown Court this week where a man stabbed his ex-partner with a kitchen knife in her face after she visited him in his flat due to concerns that he was not taking prescribed medication.
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5 Pump Court are delighted to welcome new tenant
5 Pump Court are delighted to welcome Lynette Calder to Chambers. Also, we are pleased to announce that Dale Timson and Nancy Williams have accepted tenancy which will begin on completion of their pupillage in October 2019.
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Mark Eldridge successfully prosecutes attempted murder and Section 18 GBH
Mark Eldridge successfully prosecutes attempted murder and Section 18 GBH at the Old Bailey. The two men ambushed and savagely attacked a 15 year old in Chessington in June 2018
Family
Family Law Barristers
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Chambers has a Family Law Group of barristers who are able to offer experience, advice and representation at all levels of litigation, from the county court and the family proceedings courts to the Court of Appeal and beyond. Barristers in our Family Law Group undertake work in all areas of family law. Our Family Law Group has now expanded and is comprised of 25 barristers.
Our family law barristers undertake divorce and ancillary relief- all aspects of matrimonial finance upon divorce or separation are dealt with, including foreign assets and jurisdiction, financial provision for children and the financial rights of unmarried cohabitees.
Children - Our Family Law Group barristers can advise on all disputes involving children, whether domestic or foreign, including child abduction under the Hague Convention.
We can offer expert knowledge of both private law proceedings and care proceedings where our Family Law barristers are regularly involved on behalf of both parents and local authorities.
- Domestic violence, harassment and incidents of abuse within the family.
- Trusts of Land
- Housing and transfer of tenancies
- Wills, Inheritance & Probate
Sensitive & Friendly
Barristers in our Family Law Group adopt a sensitive and friendly approach towards clients in what are often distressing circumstances for them. Our clerks would be pleased to discuss your needs and advise appropriately on particular barristers within the Family Law Group.
Barristers in our Family Law Group are regular contributors to our on-going seminar programme and all family law seminars are accredited for CPD points. Additionally barristers in the Family Law Group are able to give in-house family law seminars (please contact one of our clerks to discuss this).
Barristers within our Family Law Group are now frequently instructed to draft prenuptial agreements.
Many barristers within our Family Law Group are also members of The Family Law Bar Association.
A number of barristers within our Family Law Group have significant experience in international child abduction cases. For more information please click on International Child Abduction Barristers
Members In This Area
Contact
5 Pump Court
Temple, London
EC4Y 7AP
Document Exchange
LDE 497 Chancery Lane
Hours
8.30 am until 7.00 pm
Urgent out-of-hours
07976 368031
Parking spaces are available for conferences on request in advance
