News & Events: Shona Love
Family Law Journal publishes Shona Love’s article on Domestic Abuse tactics in the Family Court 2024
Shona’s contribution highlights the abuse tactics used by perpetrators in family law proceedings and examines how the family courts are navigating cases involving domestic abuse. The article will consider new legislation (Domestic Abuse Act 2021) together with recent case law and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s July 2023 report; ‘The Family Court and domestic abuse: achieving […]
Disclosure in inquests
This episode, Timothy Salisbury speaks to Pump Court’s Shona Love about disclosure in inquests, including how coroners approach sensitive and classified material. Shona has just returned from a secondment working for HM Senior Coroner for the Inner South District of Greater London. To get in touch with us, for any feedback, queries or suggestions of […]
Shona Love, Alex McHugh and Annabel Hazlitt join Pump Court Chambers as tenants
Pump Court Chambers is delighted to announce that Shona Love, Alex McHugh and Annabel Hazlitt have all joined chambers as tenants, following the successful completion of their respective pupillages. Shona Love accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice. Before coming to the Bar, Shona spent several years as a lawyer at the BBC specialising […]
Domestic Abuse tactics in the Family Courts – how do we achieve cultural change?
This contribution will consider new case law together with the recently published report by the Domestic Abuse Commissioner (‘the Commissioner’) examining the family courts’ handling of domestic abuse. The report highlights how victims and survivors are being subjected to continued abuse by perpetrators in private family law proceedings, resulting in re-traumatisation[1] and the need for […]
Years of missed opportunities and intrusion of privacy: The Undercover Policing Inquiry Interim Report
The Undercover Policing Inquiry (‘UCPI’) was established in 2015 to inquire into, and report on, undercover police operations conducted by police forces in England and Wales since 1968.[1]The Inquiry was set up in response to an independent review (The Ellison Review) which unearthed ‘appalling practices in undercover policing’.[2] The UCPI published its first interim report […]
Shona Love, Alex McHugh and Annabel Hazlitt to join Pump Court Chambers
Pump Court Chambers is delighted to announce that Shona Love, Alex McHugh and Annabel Hazlitt have all accepted offers of tenancy and will join chambers in October, following the successful completion of their respective pupillages. Shona Love accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ practice. Before coming to the Bar, Shona spent several years as […]
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 […]
Shona Love successfully defends in a Newton Hearing
On her first day on her feet, Shona successfully defended in R v H, a Newton Hearing for an Assault by Beating offence which took place in South London earlier this year. The District Judge determined the factual basis in favour of the defendant, concluding he had only kicked the complainant once to the legs, […]
