Dennis Sharpe

Called 1976

LLB (Exeter)
BCL (Oxon) 

Main Areas of Practice

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

Professional Memberships

FLBA
PNBA
PIBA
APIL

Profile

Dennis has extensive experience in all areas of Family work and Inheritance Act claims; acting for Claimants in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence claims; and
Professional Negligence claims against solicitors in relation to the above areas. He is a fluent French speaker experienced in conducting conferences and cases involving clients from France, the Lebanon and Africa.

Recommended as Lead Junior in Legal 500 2011 and 2010.

Family

He has recently represented Local Authorities in a large number of complex care cases, often involving mental illness, neglect and injury. In the private law field he has considerable experience acting for parents labelled implacably hostile to contact with non resident parent. He has appeared in several reported CA cases on this topic. Recently he has appeared in a difficult wardship case involving allegations of abandonment.

Notable Cases

SvA: Dennis acted for the father of a young child. Both parents travelled abroad where the mother alleged that the father had abandoned her. There were numerous difficult issues including whether the father was Somali as he claimed or Tanzanian as the wife claimed. There were also issues of immigration.

KvK: In this case involving a residence dispute between Sikh parents and two young girls, Dennis appeared on his own then as a junior. The original fact finding involved no fewer than 82 allegations and cross-allegations, including rape, stabbing and arson.

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

Additional professional information

Dennis is a qualified Public Access barrister.

If you would like any further information regarding Dennis Sharpe’s practice, please contact his clerks or call +44 (0)20 7405 6114.