Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne LLP
About
Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne LLP is a niche family practice established in 2018. The three founding partners, Emily Boardman, Ruth Hawkins and Irena Osborne, were previously at Turpin & Miller LLP.
The firm offers legal advice and representation and mediators who are also practising solicitors.
The partners and consultants all have established reputations for particular specialisms and many of them appear in both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
Our ethos is based in a strong commitment to support individuals in some of the most difficult circumstances of their lives: divorce and separation; disputes over children; involvement with social services and domestic abuse.
Each of our clients has their own needs and we tailor our legal advice and packages to each situation. Some clients want to do everything themselves, except appear in court; while some want a full service and representation throughout their process.
We offer competitive private rates, fixed fees where appropriate and legal aid for eligible cases and clients.
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Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne Legal 500 Success
BH&O LLP goes ‘from strength to strength’, and is recommended for its strength in care proceedings, adoption, and finances, often representing unmarried couples.
Welcome to our new Consultant Solicitor Simone Brown
BH&O are thrilled to welcome Simone to the team this week. She comes to us fresh from working with the Joint Legal Team in Reading and Berkshire Councils, where she was specialising in childcare and child protection and adoption work, but before that she had worked at a number of firms undertaking matrimonial finance and private children work.
Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP join forces with Mayor of Abingdon...
Specialist family law firm Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP are helping the Mayor of Abingdon, Gwyneth Lewis, put on an event for International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March at the town’s independently owned Abbey Cinema.
Family Law specialists Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP celebrate their first...
Family Law specialists Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP are delighted that their first trainee solicitor, Beth Hancock qualifies as a solicitor on Wednesday 6th March.
Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP join forces with Mayor of Abingdon...
Specialist family law firm Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP put on an event for International Women’s Day.
“Take A Hike” Another Increase in Interest Rates
On June 22nd a further rate increase in interest rates was announced by the Bank of England taking rates to 5%, the highest they have been in 15 years since 2008.
Family Mediation Awareness Week January 2022
Separating parents can avoid courtroom conflict as Family Mediation Week kicks off in next week.
Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP are delighted to have appointed Helen...
Helen has been with Emily, Ruth and Irena from the beginning of the firm just over four years ago, and in fact worked with the partners for a number of years at their previous firm.
Softening the Blow of Divorce
In this edition of the B4 Podcast, Helen Bishop and Start Webber of BH&O LLP talk to B4 about the work they both do as Family Law experts. They focus on recent changes in divorce laws and talk more about these changes and how they help all parties to get through what is often a painful process.
International Women’s Day
A hundred years ago the first women were being admitted as Solicitors. It was a huge milestone following the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Who would have thought it back then, that the profession is now full of women practising in all sectors of the profession. In July 2019, 63.1% of new admissions were women.
Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne expand thriving matrimonial team
Family law specialist Stuart Webber joined the firm on 1st March 2022 as a consultant solicitor, and will be advising clients on relationship breakdown and its financial consequences.
Earn while you learn: a modern apprenticeship in a solicitor’s office
Miya Honeyborne talks about her experience as an apprentice with Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP.
Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP: Specialist Family lawyers and family mediators
BHO were established in September 2018 by Emily Boardman, Ruth Hawkins and Irena Osborne.
BHO Recap: Key Budget points affecting families
BHO Recap: Key Budget points affecting families noted in The Times review today of the budget include:
BH&O took to the skies in support of Helen & Douglas...
Boardman Hawkins and Osborne are delighted that consultant solicitor Janet Quartly and paralegal Emily Parke took part in a charity skydive on Saturday 10th July 2021 in aid of Helen & Douglas House; a local charity providing hospice care for babies and children and their families in Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties.
Award-winning specialist family law practice acquires further new talent during the...
South Oxfordshire based Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP has acquired four additional members of the team the last three months to expand their growing specialist team.
The Future for Young Professionals
Join members of B4’s Professional Services Hub as they chat about the future for young professionals and whether their careers may not pan out as they had envisaged due to the ‘new way’ of working.
The Future for Young Professionals
Join members of B4’s Professional Services Hub as they chat about the future for young professionals and whether their careers may not pan out as they had envisaged due to the ‘new way’ of working.
International Women’s Day – 8th March 2021
To celebrate International Women’s Day we ran two special editions of The Business Brunch as we were joined by a cross-section of inspirational women from the B4 community as they discussed their own personal experiences and challenges within the workplace, both positive and negative.
Will the post-COVID world be easier for women?
Join us in discussing whether female managers have lead more effectively during COVID-19 and whether women will flourish more in a post-COVID world as the business world takes a more flexible approach to work.
Will the post-COVID world be easier for women?
Join us in discussing whether female managers have lead more effectively during COVID-19 and whether women will flourish more in a post-COVID world as the business world takes a more flexible approach to work.
The B4 NEXUS Webinar hosted by Adrian Sell
B4 NEXUS webinars give local charities, social enterprises and up and coming businesses the opportunity to tell us more about what they do and how they work. They’re also an opportunity to hear from experts with advice for third sector organisations to help them develop and flourish.
B4 Professional Services Day
It’s B4 Professional Services Day at B4. So we’re highlighting some recent and not so recent articles and press releases posted by B4 members over the past year or so.
B4 Professional Services Day
It’s Professional Services Day at B4 so we’re highlighting some recent and not so recent articles and press releases posted by B4 members over the past year or so.
Award-winning specialist family law practice acquires new talent during the Pandemic...
South Oxfordshire based Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP has acquired three additional lawyers during the last 6 months to expand their growing specialist team, at the same time as being recognised as a Tier 2 Firm in the Legal 500 Guide (the Client’s Guide to the UK Legal Profession) 2021 Edition.
Positive Steps with Ruth Hawkins of Boardman Hawkins & Osborne LLP
We opened our business in September 2018, so when lockdown started, we had only been in business for 18 months. We could never have known when we opened our doors, that we would have been facing such challenges!
Family law – what are my options
40% of marriages breakdown. For the many going through divorce it is a very difficult time but seeing a specialist family law solicitor can make it a lot more bearable.
Paying it forward… or giving back to clients and our community
We’ve now been open for a busy four months. Unsurprisingly, setting up a new solicitors’ firm is hard work, and brings all sorts of surprises, and challenges!
New Book: 101 Questions Answered About Separating With Children
With legal aid drastically cut back, Oxfordshire solicitors’ firms BH&O LLP, Freeths LLP, Family First and Brethertons are delighted to be supporting a national, not-for-profit social enterprise working to provide accessible support to families through the difficulties of separation and divorce.
New Family Law firm in Abingdon
Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne LLP is a new niche family practice opening on 3rd September 2018 in prestigious new offices in the centre of Abingdon. The three founding partners, Emily Boardman, Ruth Hawkins and Irena Osborne, were previously at Turpin & Miller LLP.