4PB Welcomes 2025/26 Pupil Cohort

Allana Bennison worked as a Legal Secretary at a solicitors’ firm in North Wales. She worked across six offices supporting fee-earners in family, civil litigation, private client, and residential and commercial conveyancing matters. Prior to this role, Allana worked for a Local Authority in North Wales, supervising contact between looked-after children and their families. Allana undertook assessments of parents to ensure contact was safe to proceed, liaised with foster carers and social workers, and wrote detailed contact records to be used in ongoing care proceedings.

Allana will be supervised by, Amean Elgadhy, Philippa Sanger, Michael Edwards and Mai Ling Savage.

Abigail Clements – Bewley began her career at a Tier 1 family law firm in central Manchester, where she supported senior in-house counsel with drafting position statements, pre/post nuptial agreements, attending court hearings, and preparing court orders.

Abigail later joined a specialist international family law firm in London, where she assisted solicitors in managing a wide range of complex international family law matters. She has extensive experience in high net worth and ultra-high net worth financial remedy proceedings, as well as private children cases, many of which involved cross-border issues. She will be under the supervision of Lucy Cheetham, Henry Clayton, Jonathan Evans and Greg Davies during her pupillage.

Emily Otvos qualified as a social worker through the graduate programme Frontline. She spent three years in a Local Authority Child Protection Team, co-ordinating multi-agency professionals and working with families to make positive changes. She gained significant experience in applying for and obtaining Interim and Final Care Orders, Supervision Orders, Special Guardianship Orders and Adoption and Placement Orders, as well as completing s.7 and s.37 reports and supporting victims of domestic abuse to obtain Non-Molestation Orders.

For the last two years Emily has worked as an Independent Social Worker, completing care assessments and giving evidence as an expert witness on behalf of parents in their EHC Plan appeals in the Special Educational Needs First Tier Tribunal.

Emily will be supervised by Mani Singh Basi, Katharine Bundell, Chris Barnes and Charlotte Baker.

We look forward to watching Allana, Abigail, and Emily flourish as they embark on this exciting journey with us.