3PB’s Hannah Bush appointed as First Tier Tribunal Judge and Deputy District Judge
28th May 2020
3PB are delighted to announce that family barrister Hannah Bush has been appointed a Deputy District Judge and a part-time First Tier Tribunal judge after separate competitions, the latter of which was announced today Thursday 28 May 2020.
Hannah will sit in the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber and will hear appeals concerned with Special Educational Needs and Disability and will sit as a Deputy District Judge on the Midlands Circuit.
Hannah was called to the bar in 2007 and is a member of 3PB’s 70-strong team of family barristers at the national chambers. Hannah will maintain her busy family law practice alongside these new roles.
To instruct Hannah or contact her, please email her clerk Ian Charlton on [email protected].
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