Today, it has been announced that Karen Barham, a consultant family solicitor at top-100 law firm Moore Barlow, has made the shortlist of the LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2024 in the category of Family Law Champion of the Year.
Vote for Karen here – Family Law Champion of the Year.
The Family Law Champion of the Year category honours individual practitioners who have made an outstanding contribution in the family law sphere in the past year. The shortlist has been drawn up by an expert panel of judges working in family law.
Karen, who for the last twenty years has practised exclusively as a mediator and parenting coordinator assisting couples and families when relationships break down, has been named a finalist for her role as the developer of the so-called Surrey Initiative.
This puts Part 3 of the Family Procedure Rules front and centre to help families by increasing the use of out-of-court dispute resolution processes. Her proposals have since been adopted within the national Family Solutions Initiative and have helped shape the Family Procedure (Amendment no 2) Rules 2023, which came into force in April this year.
Members of the Family Law legal community will decide the winner of the Family Law Champion of the Year category in an online vote, which goes live today. The result will be revealed at the LexisNexis Family Law Awards ceremony taking place at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge on Wednesday 20 November.
Commenting on today’s announcement, Karen says: “It is a great honour to have been recognised by the judging panel for the prestigious LexisNexis Family Law Awards. Good luck to my fellow finalists, and I look forward to the awards ceremony in the autumn.”
I am extremely pleased to see Karen get shortlisted and thereby receive some of the recognition she so richly deserves. An expert mediator with great empathy for her clients and their situation, she always does her utmost to help ease the strain on families during what is one of the most difficult experiences they will ever face. When it comes to the theory and practice of family law, her knowledge and skills are second to none.
Edward Whittington – Moore Barlow’s Managing Partner
