Vardags

Children law

Caroline, a partner in family law at Vardags, specialises exclusively in family law and most notably on all aspects of children law. Sensitive and tenacious with trilingual capacity, Caroline is well-versed in domestic and international disputes, with particular experience in cross-border disputes. Her expertise spans widely from child arrangements and relocation matters to parental child abduction (Hague and non-Hague), foreign orders, injunctions and protection orders. Coined a ‘rising star’ in her field, Caroline is renowned for her straight-talking, empathetic and unpretentious approach as a lawyer.  

 

Caroline joined Vardags in 2021, having first qualified and worked at a leading London specialist Family law firm in the award-winning Children Department headed by the late Anne Marie Hutchinson OBE, QC (Hon). Whilst there, Caroline worked for HNW individuals across a whole spectrum of children cases, including the first case to make use of the 1996 Hague Convention for child abduction in England and Russia.  

Caroline also undertook a secondment at The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) in Hong Kong in 2018. She has also twice served as a Rapporteur for the 2nd and triennial International Family Law and Practice Conferences. Caroline has been a Commissioner of Oaths for Quebec, Canada, since 2010. 

Recent reported cases include:

HX v A Local authority and Ors (Application to Revoke Adoption Order) [2020] EWHC 1287 (Fam) MG v JH [2018] EWHC 3477 (Fam) Re D and Others (Children) [2017] EWHC 284 (Fam) In the Matter of D (Children) (Child Abduction: Practice) [2016] EWHC 504 (Fam) J (Children) [2015] EWCA Civ 1019 Re C-W (A Child) [2015] EWCA Civ 1272 Neustadt v Neustadt (Child Abduction) [2014] EWHC 4307 LC v RRL & Ors [2014] EWFC 8 Cambra v Jones and Palacin [2014] EWHC 913 (Fam) Cambra v Jones and Palacin[2014] EWHC 2264 (Fam) LC (Children) and LC (Children) (No. 2) [2014] UKSC 1 LC (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1058 LCG v RL [2013] EWHC 1383 (Fam) O v O [2013] EWHC 2970 (Fam) Re FT and NT (Children)[2013] EWHC 850 (Fam) AI v MT (Alternative Dispute Resolution) [2013] EWHC 3954 (Fam)

Caroline speaks fluent French and Spanish.

Caroline initially studied Civil Law at  l’Université de Montréal, Québec, and later obtained a First-Class Honours degree in Law from the University of Westminster. She went on to complete her LPC qualifications at The University of Law, London.