1GC|Family Law

We are one of the foremost family law barristers' Chambers in London and in 2024 we celebrated our 35th anniversary read more here

In ‘a class of its own’, 1GC Family Law is ‘renowned for its expertise in child care law work’, but the size of the set, and its ‘well-rounded barristers’, means it has ‘an extensive knowledge base in all aspects of family law’, including finance matters.

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We are one of the foremost family law barristers' Chambers in London and in 2024 we celebrated our 35th anniversary read more here

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29 September 2025

Chambers wins three awards at the Legal 500 Bar Awards

1GC has won Family Set of the year, Front of House Team of the Year and Court of Protection Junior of the Year.

24 September 2025

Mark Rawcliffe has been appointed to sit as a Fee-Paid Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal, assigned to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber

Congratulations to Mark Rawcliffe on his judicial appointment.

23 September 2025

1GC Family Law welcomes Sally Harrison KC as a door tenant

Chambers is delighted to announce that Sally Harrison KC, who is a tenant at St John's Buildings has joined 1GC as a door tenant.

22 September 2025

Elizabeth Darlington is a finalist in the Barrister of the Year category for the Class Legal Financial Remedies Awards

We are delighted to share that Elizabeth Darlington MCIArb has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Barrister of the Year category at the inaugural Class Legal Financial Remedies Awards 2025.

15 September 2025

ER v NT (Need for fact finding hearing) [2025] EWHC 2146

Lucy Bennett represented the father in the mother’s appeal against the decision of a circuit judge not to hold a fact-finding hearing and to order interim contact.