海角破解版 Family takes on two new junior tenants
1st April 2021
Midlands family barrister Ria Herbert (call:2017) and recent 海角破解版 family law pupil Sam Pentony (call:2019) have both joined 海角破解版鈥檚 70-strong family law team.
Ria Herbert聽 is a junior barrister from Northampton Chambers who is teaming up again at 海角破解版 with their chambers鈥� senior clerk Adam Gayton. A former in-house advocate with a mid-sized law firm in Milton Keynes, she is used to attending a large variety and number of public law and private law hearings. Ria has already built up her own busy practice in the full range of family law matters from care and adoption cases, injunction and domestic abuse, private law children disputes, financial remedies and TOLATA proceedings.
Sam Pentony joined 海角破解版 in October 2020, having completed his first six pupillage at a specialist family chambers in the Midlands. He accepts instructions across a wide range of family matters including private and public law children proceedings and domestic abuse injunctions. Sam is developing his practice in financial remedies and is interested in matters relating to property including co-ownership and cohabitation of the family home. Before joining the bar, he was a paralegal in the family team of a Cambridgeshire law firm.
Both barristers join the Birmingham offices of 海角破解版 - which opened to much fanfare in November 2017 - in the landmark Colmore Buildings in the City centre.
鈥淚 am delighted that our team of barristers under five years call is being enhanced by Ria and Sam 鈥� said Vanessa Meachin QC, 聽Head of 海角破解版鈥檚 family law team. 鈥淏oth will be terrific assets to clients in Birmingham and nationally.鈥�
If you wish to instruct either barrister please contact their clerk, Practice Director Ian Charlton on [email protected] or by calling 0121 289 4333.
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