 The Family Group has built up an enviable reputation throughout East Anglia, the East Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. The range of experience and specialisation has resulted in a strong and cohesive team.
The Family Group recognises the importance of specialisation and the size of the Family Group at Fenners Chambers has enabled its members to develop areas of individual expertise. We are able to offer clients specialist counsel to meet their particular needs within the field of family law. What we do In circumstances involving the welfare of the child: Residence and contact disputes
Applications by children for orders under the Children Act
Representation in care proceedings for parents, local authorities and Children's Guardians
Issues concerning permanent removal of children from the jurisdiction
Child abduction cases under the Hague Convention
Adoption
Financial orders for children outside the ambit of a marriage
In circumstances involving a couple's financial division (Ancillary Relief): Transfer of tenancies
Straightforward ancillary relief cases
Cases involving companies, partnerships, or with other financial complexities
Farming divorces
Large money cases
Pension cases
Applications under the Married Women's Property Act 1882
Applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
Property rights of unmarried couples
Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act Applications
Family property rights on insolvency
Advice and calculations under the Child Support and on State Benefits and welfare provisions
We are aware of the escalating costs of litigating ancillary relief cases. We have therefore developed alternative approaches to resolving these disputes without having to proceed to a fully contested hearing. Where members of Fenners Chambers are instructed on both sides of a case, facilities are available in our Cambridge office for concurrent conferences to be arranged with the aim of negotiating a settlement of the case before reaching the "door of the court", or even before the issue of proceedings. Fenners Chambers Family Group and the GRADUATED FEE SCHEME FOR PUBLICLY FUNDED CLIENTS As part of our continuing commitment to offer a full range of services to clients, most members of the Family Group accept instructions from solicitors under the Family Graduated Fees Scheme. We aim to work with solicitors throughout the region to provide the best and most professional service to all clients, whether or not they are in receipt of public funding. Our clerks are able to provide full details of the types of work which we are able to accept under the scheme and of its administrative requirements. Through the FLBA and liaison between our clerks and the Legal Services Commission we strive to improve the scheme and its operation. The Legal 500 “rates Fenners Chambers highly for its family law advice”. It comments that: Lindsay Davies “is an extremely competent, experienced, well prepared, meticulously thorough barrister, recommended for family proceedings of the utmost difficulty”; Susan Espley “is highly recommended for children work and is very personable and empathetic”; Simon Tattersall “is a strong advocate who does not pull his punches and can handle a range of ancillary relief instructions”. An important part of the Group's work is legal education in the form of seminars to firms of solicitors, or to local syndicates of solicitors' practises. Fenners Chambers has been accredited by the Law Society and ILEX to provide training carrying Continuing Professional Development points | 
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