2016

On 1st September 2016, Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE,QC (Hon) was interviewed in the Times as their Lawyer of the Week, the second time she has been honoured in this way.

Kate Allen represented the mother in the reported case of BC v DE [2015] EWHC 1806 (Fam), in which she successfully changed the approach of the courts in relation to the funding of Schedule 1 cases. In the case the mother, for whom we acted, obtained an order against the father who was worth “hundreds of millions of pounds”

Shabina travelled to St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, to participate in the 2016 National Family Law Program of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada on 11th – 14th July 2016.

This week, 6 members of Dawson Cornwell have been participating in the Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family Conference, organised by the International Centre of Family Law, Policy and Practice in association with King’s College London, from 6th to 8th July 2016. Anne-Marie Hutchinson was chairing, Carolina Marin Pedreno, Sulema Jahangir and Colin Rogerson were speaking and Carolina Korah and James Netto were acting as Assistant Rapporteurs.

Dawson Cornwell has been named as one of eprivateclient’s Top 25 Family Law Firms 2016.

Shabina Begum has been named by the University of Greenwich as their Alumni of the Year 2016. Shabina was recognised for her work as a human rights activist and lawyer.

Rhiannon Lewis and Kate Allen have been named as Leading Individuals in Chambers High Net Worth 2016.

Shabina has been selected by the University of Greenwich to participate in their Greenwich Portraits project

On 16th May 2016, some of our young lawyers participated in the London Legal Walk

We are delighted to announce that Anne-Marie Hutchinson has been appointed Queens Counsel Honoris Causa