Samantha’s practice covers all areas of family law with a particular emphasis on matrimonial finance and private child law; she regularly appears in complex and high value matrimonial finance cases as a junior to QEB's Silks and to Silks in other Chambers. She also regularly appears in complex cases without a leader and has appeared successfully against Silks on her own in both finance and children cases.
Samantha is recommended in the 2011 and 2012 Editions of Chambers & Partners in the field of matrimonial finance. She is described as “very hard-working" and wins praise as a "confident advocate who punches above her weight." She is also recommended as a leading junior in the 2011 Edition of the Legal 500 UK.
In terms of international experience, Samantha spent six weeks in 2010 observing practice in the USA (Washington DC and Northern Virginia), as an Inns of Court Pegasus Scholar.
Appointments and Memberships Family Law Bar Association.
Education
Samantha obtained a First Class Law degree at Bristol University. She was subsequently a Prince of Wales Scholar of Gray’s Inn and won the 2008 Bracewell Essay Prize awarded by a select panel of judges, including Wilson LJ (now Lord Wilson), on behalf of the Family Law Bar Association (see Cases and Publication for details of publication of the essay).
