Main Areas of Practice:
- Public Law Child Care - care proceedings acting on behalf of parents and local authorities in:
- non-accidental head injury cases, and all other non-accidental injury cases, in which there is contested medical evidence
- general finding of fact hearings
- cases involving physical, sexual and emotional abuse
- adoption issues and post adoption contact
- Special Guardianship Orders
- cases with DNA issues - Declaration of paternity cases
- Divorce - matrimonial property and finance ('middle' and 'big' money cases)
- Child abduction
- Cohabitation - Trusts of Land and Schedule 1 Children Act cases
- Residence and contact in public law cases especially where a Rule 9.5 guardian has been appointed
Clerk(s):
Moira Paxton (Civil & Family): 0113 203 5502 (moira@parkcourtchambers.co.uk)
Janet Jackson (Civil & Family): 0113 203 5503 (janet@parkcourtchambers.co.uk)
Appointments:
Specialist Associations: Family Law Bar Association, West Riding Medico Legal Society and the North Eastern Circuit
Publications: April 2005 Family Law: More contact for breast-feeding mothers. Separate representation for children in private law proceedings March 2003 Justice of the Peace. Cohabitees and Financial Obligations, June 2002 JP, two articles on ancillary relief case law (White and White) March & May 2002 JP. Reviewer of Family Law Publications for Butterworths
Lectures/Seminars: May 2008: speaker at Family Law Seminar on ancillary relief and cohabitation, April 2008: speaker at Family Law Seminar on Children - update on recent child care cases of note, January 2007: Chair of Ancillary Relief Seminar, December 2006: Speaker on Adoption Law at Family Seminar, November 2006: Speaker nationwide at live internet family law update seminar to solicitors, June 2006: Speaker on Child Law update
Recommendations:
Legal 500 2007-08 (Family): ".. specialises in the public law aspects of family law"
Legal 500 2006 (Family): recommended family practitioner
IT Qualifications: CLAIT (Computer Literacy and Information Technology) - 2005; ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) - 2007
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