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Jemma Dally

Jemma Dally

Goodman Ray, London

Work Department

Head of adoption department.

Position

Partner specialising in all areas of adoption, with a particular interest in international adoption with complex immigration/legal difficulties and in co-parenting, surrogacy and parental orders. Jemma Dally represented the adopters in the leading case in respect of recognition of a foreign adoption order (D v D (foreign adoption) [2008] 1 FLR 1475), also Re Z + Z (recognition of a Brazilian adoption order) [2013] EWHC 747 (Fam); Re R (recognition of Indian adoption) [2012] EWHC 2956 (Fam).

Career

Trained Goodman Ray; qualified 2004. Appointed head of the adoption department in 2007 and made a partner in 2009. Nominated to sit on the BAAF legal advisory committee in 2008.

Memberships

Association of Lawyers for Children, BAAF.

Resolution accredited.

Education

Alcester Grammar School; London Guildhall University (2000 LLB Hons) (2003 LPC).

Leisure

Travel, cinema and theatre.

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