The winners of the Family Law Awards 2021 were announced on Wednesday 25 November at a glamorous evening event at the Bloomsbury Big Top.
Alex Verdan QC, representing the Awards' headline partner, 4PB, said of the awards: "They are an opportunity to reflect on and recognise those in our field all across the country who excel: from solicitors to barristers to legal execs, the young and shall we say the more experienced, the innovators to the commentators. We see these awards as an important landmark in the family law calendar where excellence can be recognised, and most of all celebrated."
Categories decided by the Judging Panel:
CORNWELL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO FAMILY LAW
Peter Jones, Jones Myers
FAMILY LAW ASSOCIATE SOLICITOR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Amy Fox, Penningtons Manches Cooper
WINNER: Nasima Ahmed, Barking & Dagenham Citizens Advice
FAMILY LAW CASE OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Dawson Cornwell, Harcourt Chambers, Queen Elizabeth Building, Bindmans: G v G [2021] UKSC 9
WINNER: 1GC Family Law, 4PB, Beck Fitzgerald, Bindmans, Clerksroom, Fourteen, Goodman Ray Solicitors, Meadows Ryan Solicitors, Mills & Reeve, MyCafcass, Penningtons Manches Cooper, Scott Moncrieff: Re H-N and Others [2021] EWCA Civ 448
FAMILY LAW CHAMBERS OF THE YEAR: LONDON
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Harcourt Chambers
WINNER: 1GC Family Law
FAMILY LAW CHAMBERS OF THE YEAR: REGIONAL
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Park Square Barristers
WINNER: Exchange Chambers
FAMILY LAW COMMUNITY INTERACTION AWARD
HIGHLY COMMENDED: NGA Law
WINNER: Rights of Women
FAMILY LAW DISPUTE RESOLUTION TEAM
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Anthony Gold Solicitors
WINNER: Family Law Partners
FAMILY LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR: LONDON
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Kingsley Napley LLP
WINNER: Forsters LLP
FAMILY LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR: MIDLANDS AND WALES
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Ringrose Law
WINNER: Anthony Collins Solicitors
Family Law Firm of the Year: North
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Consilia Legal
WINNER: Jones Myers
FAMILY LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR: SOUTH
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Lyons Davidson
WINNER: Family Law Partners
FAMILY LAW INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Carvalho Consultancy
WINNER: CourtNav FL401
FAMILY LAW JUNIOR BARRISTER OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Dr Charlotte Proudman
WINNER: Andrew Powell
FAMILY LAW PARTNER OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Graeme Fraser
WINNER: Henry Hood
FAMILY LAW QC OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Edward Devereux QC
WINNER: Teertha Gupta QC
FAMILY LAW YOUNG BARRISTER OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Paige Campbell
WINNER: Srishti Suresh
FAMILY LAW YOUNG SOLICITOR OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Bethan Carr
WINNER: Yasmin Khan-Gunns
INTERNATIONAL FAMILY LAWYER OF THE YEAR
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Helen Newman
WINNER: Daniel Eames
Family Law Award for Wellbeing
HIGHLY COMMENDED: Kingsley Napley LLP
WINNER: Consilia Legal
Categories voted for online by the family law community
Family Law Chartered Legal Executive of the Year
Coram Chambers
FAMILY LAW CLERKING TEAM OF THE YEAR
Sarah McCarthy, Hill Dickinson
FAMILY LAW COMMENTATOR OF THE YEAR
Yasmin Khan-Gunns, BLM