Howard Kennedy LLP

Family

Katherine Res Pritchard is a Partner in Howard Kennedy’s Family team, who practices children law exclusively, and has a wealth of experience in matters concerning children, both domestic and international.

Katherine is also an FMA trained Family Mediator, practising all-issues mediation.

She has specialised exclusively in children matters since qualifying as a solicitor in 2013. She advises on all aspects of children law, both international and domestic, with a particular emphasis on international relocation.

Katherine’s international children practice spans all aspects of cross-border disputes as well as international relocation, such as child abduction, both applications under the Hague Conventions 1980 and 1996, and non-Hague applications, inherent jurisdiction, international contact and international adoption.

Katherine has a great deal of specialist experience in all domestic children matters, such as child arrangements, applications for specific issue and prohibited steps orders, and cases involving domestic abuse allegations, often with concurrent criminal proceedings. She also advises on issues relating to fertility and surrogacy.

Katherine works closely with both industry experts, foreign lawyers and the wider Howard Kennedy network of lawyers to achieve the best possible outcomes for her clients and their children. She has established a reputation for achieving the best outcome for her clients in the most difficult circumstances. She regularly represents international clients involved in complex High Court proceedings and regularly works with clients based across the globe in jurisdictions such as Switzerland, Spain, Greece, the US, the UAE, India and Australia to name a few. Her clients are often high net worth individuals with international aspects to their case.

Katherine is a regular contributor to legal journals and has co-authored several articles on a variety of Children law topics.

She is a Resolution member, and a member of CALA (Child Abduction Lawyers Association), and a native Greek speaker.

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