We are delighted to announce that Duncan McReddie has joined Park Square Barristers with immediate effect. Duncan started his legal career as a specialist criminal defence solicitor. He worked for a number of firms in the Teesside area including Brown Beer Nixon Mallon and VCW Law. Duncan was called to the Bar in 2006. As […]

We are delighted to announce that Sue Hirst has joined Park Square Barristers with immediate effect. Sue was called to the Bar in 2001. Sue has a very busy practice in the Northeast prosecuting and defending serious crime including murder, sexual offences, drug conspiracies and fatal road traffic cases. She is a grade 4 CPS prosecutor, […]

The event on Tuesday launched a new all-party parliamentary group alongside pro bono and public legal education groups focused on access and funding for justice. Leading figures attending the event included Alex Chalk MP, the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Baroness Kennedy, Karen Buck MP and Lord Bach. Details of the launch […]

The Defendant company were the owners and operators of a slaughterhouse at premises in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. They pleaded guilty to eight offences, under The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015, which dated from November 2021 and January 2022. The offences arose out of the handling and treatment of sheep and cattle prior to […]

David Orbaum and Anaum Riaz will be delivering a seminar via zoom at 17.30 on Tuesday the 29th of September.

As it becomes all the more apparent that national restrictions in response to COVID-19 are likely to remain with us to some degree in the long term, further guidance from the Family Court has come in the form of an updated guidance document from Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, ‘The Family Court […]

Mr Justice MacDonald has released an updated version of ‘The Remote Access Family Court’ on 3rd April 2020

The Family Justice Council last week released its Interim Guidance on Special Guardianship, with the approval of Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division, in response to recurring problem in the Family Court as to how to deal with Special Guardianship in light of the 26 week time limit, most recently identified in the case of Re P-S (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 1407.

Emily Reed and Anaum Riaz will be presenting the seminar in Chambers on 14th May 2019.

Anaum Riaz analyses the judgement of Mr Justice Cobb in the case of Re H (Care and Adoption – Assessment of wider family) [2019] EWFC 10.

Part of our family team’s seminar programme. Emily Reed and Anaum Riaz will be presenting a seminar on Private Children Law.

The President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has in his recent guidance sought to clarify the legal and practical requirements for final hearings in adoption applications.