Profile

• LLB (Exeter)
• BCL (Oxon)
• Called to the Bar 1976
• Member of FLBA, PNBA, PIBA AND APIL

Dennis Sharpe has extensive experience in:

(a) all areas of Family work and Inheritance Act claims;
(b) acting for Claimants in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence claims; and
(c) Professional Negligence claims against solicitors in relation to the above areas.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Family and Child Law
• Related Human Rights
• Inheritance Act claims
• Matrimonial Finance
• Personal Injury

RECENT CASES OF NOTE

Lips v Older [2005] PIQR P14 (Junior Counsel for tenant in a personal injury claim against a professional landlord)

Re A (A Child) (Contact: Separate Representation) [2001] 1 FLR 715 (separate representation of children in private law cases)

Re Z and A (Children) (Contact: Supervision Order) [2000] 2 FLR 406 (interim supervision orders)

Carver v Hammersmith & Queen Charlotte's Special Health Authority, 2000 Unreported (Junior Counsel for the Claimant in a wrongful birth case)

P v P (Contempt of Court: Mental Capacity) [1999] 2 FLR 897

Re (Minors) (Breach of Contact Order: Committal) [1999] 2 WLR 810, [1999] 2 All ER 56, [1999] 1 FLR 810

OTHER INFORMATION

Fluent French speaker - able to conduct conferences in French.