News & Events: Samara Brackley
Samara Brackley to host roundtable discussion on cohabitation at 3rd Annual HNW Divorce Next Gen Summit
Pump Court is delighted to partner with Thought Leaders 4 on the 3rd Annual HNW Divorce Next Gen Summit taking place in London on 13th March. Samara Brackley and Laura Tanguay, Legal Director at Birketts, will host a roundtable discussion on cohabitation, which will cover the following points: Legal distinctions between cohabitation and marriage in terms […]
Re N (A Child) – Samara Brackley acts for Respondent Mother in recently published judgment
Samara Brackley, instructed by Laura White and Erin Lyon of Moore Barlow, acted for the Respondent Mother in Re N (A Child) EWFC 331 (B) [2024], in which the Father represented himself as a litigant in person. The anonymised and redacted version of the judgment was uploaded to the National Archives, in order to help […]
Resolution Working Group on Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy proceedings – From the Members of the Working Party
Samara Brackley and Stephanie Coker, Barrister at FOURTEEN, have written an article which covers the background to, the preparation of and the recommendations made within the report published on 8 October 2024 by the Resolution Working Group on Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy proceedings, of which Samara and Stephanie are both members. The article can […]
Four new pupils at Pump Court Chambers
We are pleased to welcome our new 12-month pupils, who started with us this week. Their details and pupil supervisers are as follows: Alvaro Loxton (common law) – Mark Ablett Hannah Tickle (common law) – Samara Brackley Edward Armitage (criminal) – Tom Wilkins Victoria Steet (family) – Neelo Shravat
Pump Court maintains Top Tier status in the Legal 500 2025 rankings
We are very proud to announce that Pump Court Chambers has maintained its status as a Top Tier Set in the latest edition of The Legal 500 UK Bar Guide. Chambers is ranked as a Tier 1 set for Family: Children and Domestic Abuse, Family: Divorce and Financial Remedy and Crime (General and Fraud) on […]
Jennifer Lee to speak at the Corbett Le Quesne Jersey International Family Law Conference on 4 October 2024
We are very pleased to announce that Jennifer Lee has been invited to speak at Corbett Le Quesne’s Jersey International Family Law Conference on 4 October 2024, with Sir Jonathan Cohen as keynote speaker. Jennifer will be speaking on capacity issues in divorce/financial remedy proceedings. Tara Lyons, Elizabeth Spence, Stuart Snow, Jenna Lucas, Maria Henty, […]
Jennifer Lee and Samara Brackley ranked as Leading Family Law Barristers in the Spear’s Legal Indices 2024
Pump Court is delighted to announce that Jennifer Lee and Samara Brackley have been ranked as two of the best family law barristers for high-net-worth clients in the UK in the Spear’s 500 Legal Indices 2024. Listed as a “name to know”, Jennifer has been ranked in the index as one of the ‘Top Recommended’ […]
How to prepare and win cohabitee claims as quickly as possible
Please join us for an interactive and informative workshop, where members of Pump Court’s inheritance mediation team will consider the practical tips and tactics when mediating TLATA claims. The session, Chaired by Leslie Samuels KC, will cover the following topics: TLATA Claims: Important First Steps – Tara Lyons (slides); Dispute Resolution and Arbitration – Helen […]
Re S (Children: Parentage and Jurisdiction) [2023] EWCA Civ 897 – Jennifer Lee and Samara Brackley of Pump Court Chambers succeed in landmark Court of Appeal judgment
Jennifer Lee and Samara Brackley, led by Will Tyler KC of 36 Family, instructed by Byron James of Expatriate Law Limited, acted in the Court of Appeal for the successful Appellant in Re S (Children: Parentage and Jurisdiction) [2023] EWCA Civ 897 – a hugely significant case involving the children of same-sex civil partners, conceived […]
London Legal Walk 2023
Pump Court Chambers is very proud to be taking part in this year’s London Legal Walk on Tuesday 13th June 2023. Samara Brackley, Sian Beaven, Louisa Simpson, Ruba Huleihel, Hester Calder, Elena Johnson, Shona Love, Alex McHugh and Annabel Hazlitt will join the thousands of other participants on the 10km route through central London, to […]
NFTs in family law
A recent talk to the IBA conference in Miami mandated that all lawyers must be familiar with cryptocurrency, and that surely must include NFTs or non-fungible tokens. Sound like gibberish? Well look no further, because Samara Brackley of Pump Court will tell you all about them and how the court is likely to treat NFTs […]
Samara Brackley appointed to Resolution Cohabitation Committee
Pump Court Chambers is proud to announce that Samara Brackley has been invited to be a member of the Resolution Cohabitation Committee. The Cohabitation Committee aims to educate on the law for cohabiting couples in relation to the financial consequences of cohabitation and cohabitation breakdown, increase awareness of the current law and its pitfalls, and highlight the need for law reform. Samara will […]
