We are delighted to announce that Elisabeth Traugott has joined Garden Court Chambers as a new tenant.
Elisabeth Traugott is a passionate family law advocate who strives to give voice and agency to her clients. Calm, tactical, and tenacious, she has a commanding grasp of relevant law and applies it concisely and strategically to a client’s lived experience.
Elisabeth has developed a considerable practice representing victims of domestic abuse. She is passionate about access to justice and maintains a legal aid practice in complex private children law. Elisabeth has a robust direct access practice and travels throughout England & Wales.
In her domestic abuse work, Elisabeth is particularly skilled at finding-of-fact hearings and regularly tries cases with extremely serious allegations. In her appellate practice, Elisabeth is adept at formulating and drafting grounds of appeal and skeleton arguments that reflect a firm grasp of the development and trajectory of the law on domestic abuse in particular.
In addition to her domestic abuse work, Elisabeth has advocated successfully for and against relocation applications and has experience litigating applications for occupation orders, transfers of tenancies, section 91(14) orders, and cases arising under High Court inherent jurisdiction.
Additionally, Elisabeth represents parents in care proceedings, ensuring that cases are fairly brought and evidence is robustly tested.
Elisabeth started her working life as a journalist for a community newspaper and has throughout her career remained interested in free speech and authorship rights. As an employed barrister, Elisabeth was in-house counsel for a leading UK academic publisher, regularly advising on defamation and copyright infringement issues.
An American lawyer by training, Elisabeth was a law clerk (judicial assistant) to a US federal judge before becoming a litigation associate at a law firm in San Francisco. She transferred to the Bar in 2012 after the Bar Transfer Course and pupillage. She came to the self-employed bar in 2019.
Get in touch with Elisabeth’s clerks at familyclerksmailbox@gclaw.co.uk
