This webinar is presented by Laura Hilton. If you would like to view the webinar, please email webinars@psqb.co.uk and a link will be sent to you. Laura was called to the Bar in 2021, having transferred over following qualification as a Chartered Legal Executive in 2016 and subsequently as a solicitor in 2017. Laura has […]

Paternity – How not to do it & Parental Alienation – A user guide for Lawyers The Family Team at Park Square Barristers hosted another successful virtual seminar on Tuesday evening, 23 June 2020. Helen Hendry and Ayshea Megyery were on the panel, discussing the current state of the law in respect of paternity testing, […]

Masked lockdown gunman spared extended jail sentence – Mark McKone defends A masked man who tried to fire a shotgun at a house in an attempt to scare his intended victim has been jailed at Bradford Crown Court. John Semeniuk had pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence in […]

SC (a child) v University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 2020 and the current position regarding the listing of civil trials during the CV19 Pandemic Since trials in the civil courts all but came to a standstill on 23rd March when the country was placed into lockdown, with almost all being adjourned off and only […]

PSQB is holding a virtual seminar entitled ‘Paternity – How not to do it & Parental Alienation – A user guide for Lawyers’. The event will be held via Zoom at 5.30pm on 23 June 2020. Please contact paul@psqb.co.uk by 22 June if you would like to attend.

“Parental Leave During the Pandemic: preparing to get back to an uncertain workplace”   Monday 22 June 2020, 1.30pm via Zoom A seminar for solicitors and barristers hosted by Wendy Showell Nicolas, psychotherapist, regarding the emotional, practical and professional impact of returning to work after a period of parental leave, with discussions about the effect of […]

An update – are schools and universities offering ‘reasonable’ alternatives and what does the recent guidance mean? Ellie and Sophie recently wrote an article regarding parent/student contracts and liability for paying tuition fees during the Covid-19 pandemic. This supplementary article seeks to address the guidance which has been released in recent weeks, and provides some […]

Park Square Barristers are pleased to announce that the Lord Chief Justice of England and wales, the Right Honourable Lord Burnett of Maldon, has appointed Simon Clegg and William Lindsay to the position of Deputy District Judge on the North Eastern Circuit. Simon and William will commence sitting later this year and both will continue […]

A Local Authority v the Mother & Ors [2020] EWHC 1233 (Fam) Williams J applies the guidance from recent cases and the President’s Guidance in a decision handed down at 4.30pm on 15 May 2020. The full judgment can be found here. The judgment addresses the question of whether a fact-finding hearing should continue either […]

Contents: Re P [2020] EWFC 32 Re A [2020] EWCA Civ 583 Re B [2020] EWCA Civ 584 Re Q [2020] EWHC 1109 A Local Authority v Mother [2020] EWHC 1086 Fam Research Published by the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (NFJO) Re P [2020] EWFC 32, dated 16/04/20 (The President) Summary Whether a case proceeds […]

The Family team at Park Square Barristers are pleased to host a Q & A seminar via Zoom on Monday 18th May 2020 at 6pm following the success of the seminars held by the PSQB Criminal and Regulatory teams. The panel will be discussing remote hearings, both telephone and online, and how they are being […]

On 12 May 2020, Huw Lippiatt and Philippa Hildyard will be hosting a seminar entitled ‘Familial Child Sexual abuse – where are we at? A review of ‘the multi-agency responses to child sex abuse in the family environment’ report, Re AA & 25 others [2019] EWFC 64, and our experience of recent multi-party proceedings’. They […]