The Liver Building

2025 Family Finance Conference (hybrid)

Details

Speaker: Various

Date: Wednesday 24th September, 2025

Time: 09:30 - 15:10

Areas of Law: Family

Competencies: B

Venue:
Taylor Wessing
Edward Pavilion,
Albert Dock,
Liverpool
L3 4AF
Or ONLINE

Course Code: S4910

Description

*WORK IN PROGRESS* please keep checking back to see sessions & speakers as confirmed!

A must-attend training event for solicitors, barristers & other practitioners involved with family law.  Providing a round-up of key developments in law & practice and an opportunity to hear directly from some first-class speakers

This event can be attended in-person or virtually (via MS Teams). When booking, please select if you wish to attend ‘Face-to-face’ or ‘Virtual’.

All bookings, whether you attended in-person or virtually will be able to access a recording post event.

Registration & refreshments / Log in

Welcome & introduction ~ DJ Sheren Guirguis

TBC* ~ Margaret Parr, 7 Harrington St

*A potential topic may be “matrimonialisation” of assets as there is a recent case being appealed to the Supreme Court on the point and some Court of Appeal guidance to be considered. 

TBC

Comfort break - refreshments & networking for in-person delegates

TBC

TBC

Comfort break - lunch & networking for in-person delegates

TBC

TBC: General FR Update? ~ Sam Hillas KC, St Johns Buildings

Summary & close ~ DJ Guirguis

Speaker Biographies

District Judge Sheren Guirguis was appointed on 8th November 2021 to Liverpool Civil and Family Court to sit as a Family District Judge.  She is authorised to deal with complex matrimonial finance cases. As a barrister, she practised from Exchange Chambers, Liverpool, dealing with all aspects of family finance, including financial remedy, cohabitee claims and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act.

Sam Hillas KC is a financial remedy silk at St Johns Buildings based in Liverpool, an Inner Temple Bencher, Attorney General of the Northern Circuit, an FLBA committee member and on the Financial Remedies Journal editorial team.   She is a member of the group of practitioners and judges headed by His Honour Stuart Farquhar reporting to the President of the Family Division about aspects of financial remedies practice, including transparency.  Sam’s practice takes her up and down the country appearing before courts at all levels and she is well known for her lectures, seminars and podcasts on both financial remedy work and legal practice generally.  She is a qualified arbitrator and regularly acts as a private FDR evaluator.

Margaret Parr specialises in family law and has appeared in the Court of Appeal and High Court. She represents parents, children and Local Authorities in care and adoption proceedings. In private law proceedings, Margaret represents parents and children and is experienced in dealing with intractable contact disputes, implacable hostility and international relocation. Margaret acts in ancillary relief proceedings, including those involving pensions and company assets.

Prices

Member £175
Non-member £225
Training Passport Free
Note: 20% VAT added at checkout