Meeting other pupils is an important part of the pupillage experience. We know from our recent survey that pupils miss networking with their peers during covid. Meet other pupils and ask any pupillage related questions this Thursday with Young Barristers’ Committee. barcouncil.org.uk/training-event…

A wonderful evening with a fab group of lawyers talking everything modern families and surrogacy! Thank you for organising Natalie Sutherland and so good to see/meet everyone Jade Quirke Melissa Elsworth Connie Atkinson @anestmathias Sarah Williams ☺️

Please join us in congratulating Andrew Venables (@andrew_venables) who has been appointed as Deputy District Judge on the south eastern circuit. 1gc.com/news/view/andr…

I really recommend getting involved in this scheme - I found it so helpful throughout my pupillage

This is a really important resource by FLBA arranged by our amazing Young Bar Team. Tom Harvey Mani Singh Basi and Melissa Elsworth. Please cascade this far and wide. It is essential that we provide pupils with buddys. Please contact Mani as per yesterday’s FLBMail. Joanne Kane CLQC

Silks Day is well underway and at 1GC Family Law we are wishing a warm congratulations to Denise Gilling QC and Sally Stone QC who were sworn in at Westminster Hall this morning. A very proud moment for Chambers. #silksday #QC #newsilks

Couldn’t do this without my excellent Co-Chair Charlotte Trace 29 Bedford Row & our other other fantastic YResLondon committee members who give so much of their time and energy. YRES members watch this space for our 2022 schedule and do reach out with any q’s and ideas.

We wish to congratulate FLBA member and leading silk Sarah Morgan QC being appointed as a Judge of the Family Division. She will begin on 11 Jan 2022. I will miss her camaraderie in the front row. The Family Bar’s loss is the judiciary’s gain. CLQC

Chambers is delighted to announce the appointment of Sarah Morgan QC as a High Court Judge She will take up her appointment from 11 Jan 22 and will be known as the Honourable Mrs Justice Morgan Sarah will be assigned to the Family Division Please join us in congratulating her

We are delighted to announce that Laura Briggs (Laura Briggs KC) will be appointed Queen's Counsel in 2022. 1GC Family Law members and staff wholeheartedly congratulate Laura on this achievement. 1gc.com/news/view/laur… #QCappointment #silk

Big changes afoot in 2022: I will be taking up a place in the front row as one of Her Majesty’s Counsel. I’m grateful to all who have supported me in the last 20 years of practice and I’m looking forward to starting the next 20 as a QC. #qcappointment #silk 1GC Family Law

A huge welcome to Sarah Jane Lenihan, who joins us as a partner in our Matrimonial Department. Legal 500 ranked, a member of the London Region Resolution Committee & with wide experience in the full range of divorce & financial remedies, Sarah Jane is a great addition to our team

Many congratulations to Laura Briggs QC who has been sworn in as Silk today at a ceremony at Westminster Hall. Everyone at 1GC Family Law is delighted to celebrate this achievement with her. #silksday2022 #silkday #newsilk

Janet Bazley KC, Olivia Magennis and Melissa Elsworth appeared in Re C (Surrogacy: Consent)[2023] EWCA Civ 16, a decision considering, for the first time, the consent requirements of s54(6) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. 1gc.com/published-case…

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham v RM & Ors [2023] EWHC 777 (Fam) (17 March 2023): Care proceedings. Judgment concerning issue of whether the mother's HIV positive status should be disclosed to the father. Full report: bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/…

Two High Court judgments, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham v RM & Ors [2023] EWHC 1879 & EWHC 777, have been published today regarding a local authority’s application to disclose the mother’s HIV status to the father and within care proceedings more generally. Richard Jones

Janet Bazley KC, Olivia Magennis and Melissa Elsworth, appeared on behalf of the surrogate mother and Alison Moore and Luke Eaton appeared on behalf of the Children’s Guardian in Z (Surrogacy: Step-parent Adoption), Re [2024] EWFC 20.  The case concerned the application of a

Richard Jones and Melissa Elsworth, instructed by Duncan Lewis Solicitors, successfully represented a mother pro bono in the Court of Appeal in relation to the making of Specific Issue Orders in private law proceedings. The case concerned an order granting overriding parental responsibility

Congratulations to Melissa Elsworth, recognised as Up and Coming in the 2025 edition of Chambers and Partners for Family: Children. 1gc.com/barristers/pro…