Erimus Chambers Barristers deal
with Criminal Law, Family Law including domestic
violence, Civil Law
including most County Court matters including personal
injury, road traffic, contracts, debt disputes and
mortgage repossession cases.
Chambers lawyers cover local Courts including Northampton,
Daventry, Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Towcester,
Market Harborough, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Luton,
Watford and Peterborough. Karen can also be
based in London for coverage particularly of Croydon
and other London Courts she has recently regularly
attended include Wood Green Inner London and the
Old Bailey.
Karen
has extensive experience in general common law practising
in London and on circuit over the last 17 years.
She practices in criminal, civil, and family law.
She has regularly appeared in the Magistrates, Youth,
Crown
and County Courts literally across the Country, from
Cardiff to Suffolk and from Leicester to Hove! She
has also acquired a particular expertise in Road
Traffic cases, including speed camera and drink driving.
This
experience transfers across to civil hearings concerning
Road traffic accidents in County Court disputes.
Karen has a wide and varied experience of Criminal
matters including violence, sexual offences and fraud,
including confiscation hearings. Karen has also dealt
with hunt saboteur cases. Mental Health issues have
been dealt with both before Mental Health tribunals
and within Criminal cases. She recently received in
house domestic violence training with CPS Dorset and
has dealt with a considerable number of such cases
over the years. She also has completed the Sexual Offences
and Rape courses with the Bar Council over the last
two years. She is a grade two Prosecutor for CPS and
again has many years experience working for the CPS
around the country in Crown and Magistrates Courts.
In the Family Courts she again has dealt with
children cases, contact and residence, child abduction
and care. Her criminal experience of Domestic violence
also enhances her experience with injunctive relief.
She has had conduct of a care case with a QC leader
at the High Court which included murder and extreme
sexual abuse.
Karen conducts and has many years experience of
ancillary relief cases including complex self employed
and business cases.
As Legal Services are continually restricted financially,
Karen is keen to provide quality and value to her
clients and aims to return promptly case reports
and fee notes, as she fully appreciates the importance
of financial administration to instructing solicitors
and the need for clients to be fully informed about
finances.
Karen spent 11 years prior to call to the Bar
as a Magistrates Legal Advisor which gave daily
experience of family, road traffic and crime. Her
duties included being the Clerk to the Youth Court
and training of Justices. She also supervised trainee
Court Clerks. She completed the advocacy training
course with Middle Temple to become an Advocacy
trainer. She has also lectured Criminal Practice
for the Institute of legal Executives. Over the
years Karen has also assisted with mini pupils
and with pupils of Chambers to assist their development
and experience. She is a member of the Criminal
Bar Association, Family Law Association and the
Women Barristers Association.
Geographically Karen has built up contact with
many Courts across the Country and is still happy
to travel across both the South Eastern and Western
Circuits of which she is a member and across The
Midlands where she is based.
On a personal note, Karen has been active throughout
her working life in the voluntary sector, particularly
in respect of children and whilst serving on various
school and childcare committees is particularly
proud of being a founder member and registered
provider of an after school club. This required
she be trained in Child Protection issues and child
development. As a working mother she achieved a
work life balance when her children were growing
up and fully understands the challenges of the
modern mother. She also has assisted with her daughter’s
show jumping career, with mucking out and lorry
driving. She is passionate about her free range
chickens, and country life in general.
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