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A day in the life of ... Ruth Cabeza, barrister at Field Court Chambers
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What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?
I am a self-employed barrister based in London and I specialise in family law. As a self-employed person I work when I have work and I do what is required for each given job. Sometimes this means spending the day at home preparing a case or writing an advice sometimes this means travelling to a court and representing one of the parties at a hearing. Most of my cases involving decisions concerning the future of children in cases where the children have or are possibly going to be changing their home from one country to another.
How long have you been in this role and what brought you here?
I have been a barrister since I was called to the bar in 1998 but it was hard to find a pupillage and I didn’t complete pupillage at Coram Chambers until September 2000. I eventually undertook a Third Six pupillage at Field Court Chambers and accepted their offer of a tenancy in December 2001. 17 years later I am still here! My parents married and divorced...
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