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Dafydd Griffiths

Dafydd Griffiths

Position

A child care practitioner with expertise in all areas of both public law (including NAHI, FFI and sexual abuse) and private law, including external/internal relocation, FLA 1996 work, implacable hostility, parental alienation, expert psychiatric/psychological opinion, substance misuse (drug and alcohol), mental health issues. Dafydd has appeared at all levels of Court (save the Supreme Court).  LGBT+ parenting work.  Cases: Re J (a child)[2012] EWHCC 3353 (fam), O – M (children)[2009] EWCA Civ 1405, A Local Authority v J [2008] EWHC 1484 (fam), Re B (2007) Lawtel AC0115985, Greenwich LC Council v S (2007) 2 FLR 154, FD

Career

Qualified 1997; Gray’s Inn; Gray’s Inn pupil sponsorship scheme.

Languages

Welsh.

Memberships

FLBA.  LEDLET (Lord Edmund Davies Legal Educ Trust) mentor, a mentor for the Middle Temple Acces to the Bar Award Placement and has sat as a Judge for the Welsh Legal Awards.

Education

Glantaff High School, Cardiff; Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (1995 LLB Law); Inns of Court School of Law (1996).

Mentions

London Bar

Family: children and domestic abuse

Leading junior2
Dafydd Griffiths –29 Bedford Row Chambers ‘Dafydd is great at managing clients' expectations. He provides intelligible advice.'