Profile

• University of Durham (Modern Languages)
• Common Professional Exam (Store Street)
• Inns of Court School of Law, London (Advocacy - Outstanding)
• Called to the Bar 1993
• Member of the FLBA and BAAF

PRACTICE

Extensive advocacy experience in all areas of family law, at all levels of the Court system; Court-based practice, now specialising in cases relating to children (both public and private law)

PRIVATE LAW

• contact and residence disputes;
• removal from the jurisdiction, temporary and permanent, Hague/non-Hague Convention cases;
• domestic violence/fact-finding;
• nullity;
• change of name;

PUBLIC LAW

• care proceedings, representing Local Authorities, parents, and children through their Guardian;
• general abuse;
• sexual abuse;
• neglect;
• non-accidental injury;

Accredited Mediator (School of Psychotherapy and Counselling)

OTHER INTERESTS

• Involved in ongoing training of more junior members of the profession, both solicitors and barristers;
• Modern languages (fluent French);
• Member of the London Philharmonic Choir and smaller chamber choirs;
• Founder of the London Philharmonic Choir/Middle Temple annual Charity Concert;
• Photography