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Yolanda Pemberton

Yolanda Pemberton

St Philips Chambers, West Midlands

Work Department

Family

Position

Yolanda specialises in all aspects of child law with an extensive background in all aspects of public law, private law children work, Forced Marriage (including FGM), Brussels II, Wardship and Inherent Jurisdiction.

Yolanda has an extensive background and experience of representing local authorities, parents and children in public law cases involving serious injuries to children, FII, fractures, bruising, attempted suffocation, sexual abuse (including subject child as victim and perpetrator), complex medical issues, mental health, including parents who require the assistance of the Official solicitor (acting for both parents via the Official Solicitor) and child death. In addition, Yolanda has experience of representing both parents and local authorities in adoption proceedings.

In private law children work this includes representing parents, grandparents, children and all other family members in cases involving child arrangements orders including high conflict and intractable disputes (including involving 16.4 appointments), applications to remove children from the jurisdiction, applications to relocate children within the jurisdiction, specific issues relating to education, medical and religion, issues of mental health, fact-finding hearings and domestic abuse within families.

Yolanda is known for her meticulous preparation of all of her cases, being able to quickly and expertly get to the core of any dispute and known to be uncompromising in her approach for any client, ensuring they receive the best and most robust representation.

Yolanda excels with vulnerable clients in complex cases.

Yolanda has experience before all levels of judiciary including the Court of Appeal.

Career

Called 2002, Lincoln’s Inn.

ADR Trained Mediator.

Direct Access Accredited.

She is a founding Board Member of Women in Family Law.

Memberships

Association for Lawyers for Children; Family Law Bar Association.

Education

University of Warwick; Inns of Court School of Law.

Mentions

Midland Circuit • Regional Bar

Family: children and domestic abuse

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Yolanda Pemberton –St Philips Chambers ‘Yolanda has an exceptional ability to drill down into the key issues in any case to be able to identify key strengths and weaknesses. Her approach is forensic and she is able to distil into an easily and accessible chronological format significant amounts of complex factual and medical information. Yolanda is a force in cross-examination but empathetic with vulnerable witnesses.'