Benjamin Jenkins
Degree: LLB (Hons) Cardiff
Year of call and Inn: 2004; Gray’s Inn
Professional Membership: Western Circuit; FLBA; Family Mediators Association; ADR Family Mediation
Practice
Ben Jenkins practises exclusively in family law and his work encompasses all areas with a particular focus on public law children work and ancillary relief (matrimonial finance). Ben is also a trained family mediator.
Matrimonial Finance Provisions
Ben has a particular interest in this area and his broad practice includes small and larger asset cases.
Children
Ben frequently appears in public law children proceedings and has represented local authorities, parents and guardians. He has experience in complex finding of fact hearings involving serious allegations of abuse. He has appeared in the High Court and Court of Appeal representing parents in cases requiring numerous disciplines of expert evidence, significant cultural issues and multiple non-accidental injuries.
Ben also has experience of representing very vulnerable parties through the Official Solicitor.
Mediation
As an alternative to contested litigation private clients can instruct Ben to mediate any family dispute. He is a member of the FMA and ADR, both of which are approved providers of training by the Family Mediation Council.
Lectures
Ben has given lectures on the following topics:
- Securing the right assessments for parents in Care Proceedings
- Ancillary Relief Update
- Spousal Maintenance in Ancillary Relief
- Business and Divorce – The Court’s Approach
Reported Cases
Re P and P (Children) [2009] EWCA Civ 610 and [2009] 2 FLR 1370: Counsel for the Second Respondent in this appeal from a decision of Coleridge J concerning the instruction of experts in a complex public law children matter.
L and R (Children) [2010] EWHC 304 (fam): Junior Counsel for the Second Respondent in a complex public law fact finding with very unusual injuries to children, with significant cultural issues. Subsequently the subject of an unsuccessful appeal by the Children’s Guardian in L and R [2011] EWCA Civ 1034.
Recommendations
“approachable and able to explain issues in a straightforward and understandable way.”
Legal 500 2011
Albion Chambers, Broad Street, Bristol BS1 1DR
T: 0117 927 2144
F: 0117 926 2569
benjamin.jenkins@albionchambers.co.uk
Clerk: Julie Hathway T 0117 311 0305 (Maternity Leave)
Clerk: Theresa Lyne T 0117 311 0305
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