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Women in Law Awards 2020

Chambers is delighted to announce that several of our members have been short-listed for the Women in Law Awards 2020 in the following categories: Woman of the Year – Dr Charlotte Proudman Male Diversity Champion of the Year – Anthony Metzer QC, Head of Chambers Outstanding Returner of the Year – Sarah Pinder Barrister/Advocate of the Year – Charlotte […]

Dr Charlotte Proudman interviewed for podcast, Get Legally Speaking, about FGM

Dr Proudman, of Chambers’ family and immigration teams, provided an overview of the law at present in respect of FGM. She outlined the historical origins of FGM, the motivations for the practice and key statistics. Dr Proudman was asked about the legal remedies available to protect girls and women from FGM as well as the consequences for performing […]

Commonwealth Veterans’ Legal Action

Anthony Metzer QC and Sarah Pinder of Chambers, instructed by Vinita Templeton of Duncan Lewis Solicitors represent a group of eight Commonwealth Veterans (“the Claimants”), who have lodged a claim for judicial review against the Secretary of State for Defence (SSD) and the Secretary of State for the Home Department (SSHD).  This has been recently featured in two articles […]

Chambers welcomes Jeremy Frost, as a third-six pupil

We are delighted to announce that Jeremy Frost has joined chambers as a third-six pupil having completed his pupillage at Garden Court chambers. Before arriving at Goldsmith Chambers, Jeremy had already gained a broad experience of criminal and civil work, and had begun to establish a busy practice centring on immigration and public law. He is now […]

Response on EU Settlement Scheme to ICIBI

Members of the immigration team have responded to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration’s call for evidence concerning the government’s EU Settlement Scheme. This concerns the fate of EEA nationals and their family members living in the UK post-Brexit and the transition period due to come to an end on 31st December 2020. […]

Hannah Gladwell – our latest member

Chambers is delighted to announce that Hannah Gladwell, a former pupil in Chambers, has accepted an offer of tenancy. She becomes the latest member to join the Goldsmith Chambers family. Hannah practices in all areas of criminal law and regularly appears in the Crown Court, Magistrates’ Court and Youth Court. She also accepts instructions in public […]

The Passage – charity fund-raising

The members of Goldsmith Chambers Family Team held an online coffee morning on Tuesday and were pleased to raise £200 for homeless charity The Passage. 

Samina Iqbal and Sarah Pinder quoted in Bureau of Investigative Journalism article

Journalist Cat McShane’s article “Gap in homelessness help could force thousands back onto streets – The Everyone In policy was groundbreaking in its scope, but many of those housed in hotels will soon lose their accommodation” shines a light on what may happen next with the government’s Everyone In Policy. The article was published by […]

Family Law Awards

We are delighted to announce that Dr Charlotte Proudman has been nominated for Junior Family Law Barrister of the Year in the Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards 2020, largely as a result of her excellent and dedicated work on FGM cases.  As junior counsel, Charlotte represented the mother in Re A (A Child: Female Genital Mutilation: […]

Family Law Awards

Goldsmith Chambers is very happy to announce that Chambers’ family law team has been nominated for Chambers of the Year in this year’s Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards 2020 awards ceremony. 

 

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