Talking With: The FLBA Podcast The Family Law Bar Association

’Talking With…' Episode 5: Leslie Samuels QC talks with Mani Basi of 4PB and Rhianna Manani of No.5 Barristers Chambers about Rhianna’s experience of pupillage, the services offered to pupils by the FLBA including advocacy exercises and the mentoring scheme, how chambers can best support pupils and junior tenants, the benefits of a specialist pupillage as compared to the benefits of a common law pupillage and the importance in family law of having real life experience.

’Talking With…' Episode 4: Leslie Samuels QC talks with Jolene Hutchinson, financial remedy solicitor and Head of the Family Team at IBB Law, about juggling motherhood with her career, what she looks for when instructing counsel, her top tips for barristers, how to manage conflict, her mental health first aid training and what she would change about family law if she could.

’Talking With…’ Episode 3: Leslie Samuels QC talks with Peter Richards, former Paediatric Neurosurgeon at the the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford about his life as a neurosurgeon, his expert witness work, what he has learnt from his cases and how he has passed on his knowledge to the next generation.

Bibi Badejo and Leslie Samuels QC discuss how to encourage greater diversity at the Bar, Bibi’s thoughts on combining practice with being a new mother, the work of the FLBA and the late and much missed Ian Griffin.

Bibi Badejo and Leslie Samuels QC talk with HHJ Madeleine Reardon about her move from Bar to Bench, life as a family judge during the pandemic and striking a work life balance.