Please note the deadline for pupillage applications has been extended to 28 February 2010.

Please note Chambers will be offering a 12 month pupillage starting in October 2010. Applications are now being accepted, please download the application form under the Tenancy and Pupillage section. The closing date is 28 February 2010.

Due to a power cut in the Canterbury areas we are experience some problems with our telephone lines, if you are having trouble get through please contact us via clerks@stourchambers.co.uk or call our Senior Clerk Marc Goddard on 07909 524465.

Due to an overload of work, Chambers welcomes applications from Family Tenants who are able to cover all areas but in particular care proceedings.

Chambers are pleased to announce that Gerardine Buckley (1991) has re-joined Chambers and will start from 3 Aug 2009. Gerardine is a specialist family lawyer practising in all areas of law concerning children and matrimonial finance. Please contact our Senior Clerk for further details.

Simon Johnson has written an article on Pre-Nuptial Agreements.

The Court of Appeal's decision in 'Radmacher v Granatino', handed down on 2 July, will encourage couples contemplating marriage to consider guarding against the financial risks of divorce by agreeing in advance arrangements for settling the financial issues that will arise should the marriage fail. A strong Court of Appeal unanimously held that the trial judge was wrong not to give, 'decisive weight' to the parties' pre-nuptial agreement.

A full version is available via email, hard copy or fax, please contact the clerks

We are delighted to announce that Simon Johnson's article 'Shared Residence Orders:For and Against' is due to be in the February edition of Family Law Magazine.