Clerk Details
- Clerk Name: David Sadler
- Clerk Telephone: 020 7583 8055
- Clerk Email: [email protected]
Family
Scott Sharp is busy specialist family law barrister who appears in court and advises on Public Law Children (Care), Child Arrangements (Private Law) and Financial Remedies (including Divorce) and TOLATA disputes.
Public Law Children (Care)
Scott is regularly instructed to act for parents at all stages of Public Law Children proceedings. Scott is highly understanding that such proceedings can be extremely stressful and emotive for parents, and he is versatile in adapting to the specific needs of parents whilst providing robust and clear advice.
Scott has been instructed on a number of matters for parents with cognitive difficulties and has developed numerous techniques in client handling to enable them to be fully informed and engaged within proceedings.
Child Arrangements (Private Law)
Scott is also frequently instructed to represent parties in a range of Child Arrangement proceedings, ranging from non-molestation and occupation orders, to child arrangement disputes inclusive of change of residency and arguments relating to jurisdiction.
Internationally, Scott is currently representing a left-behind parent in the High Court, following the illegal retention of her five children in Belgium. Despite having previously obtained declarations in the High Court that the actions of the other parent amounted to international child abduction, and with concurrent 1980 Hague Convention proceedings in Belgium, which have ordered the return of the children, Scott continues the fight for their practical return to their mother.
Frequently, the cases involve allegations of domestic abuse of both historic and modern allegations.
Financial Remedies
Scott advises and represents clients at all stages within Financial Remedy Proceedings, and in particular he receives instruction in needs-based cases which include spousal maintenance and applications for variation.
He has developed a specialism in financial remedies work where there are economic abuse arguments in the dispute. This has seen him persuading a trustee for bankruptcy to stop an immediate order for a house sale and to increase the equity his client would eventually receive from the sale of the family home.
TOLATA disputes
Scott has excellent experience in dealing with disputes between former co-habitants in Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 cases (TOLATA) and undertakes the drafting of applications and well as representing clients at court.
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Recommendations “Mr Sharp’s advice showed wisdom beyond his call. He is hardworking and a credit to Chambers.“
Professional Client
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) today announced the arrival of two new family barristers from the London and South-East Circuits specialists Westgate Chambers, who are based in Brighton. Family law barrister Lauren Winser, with a busy practice across all areas of family law and is a committee member of YRes for the family law network Resolution, will be joined at 3PB by matrimonial finance and private law children expert Scott Sharp who deals with financial...
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