London Bar
Family: children and domestic abuse
Leading junior4Barry McAlinden – Field Court Chambers ‘His cross-examination is laser-focused and formidable.’
Field Court Chambers
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Barry McAlinden
Field Court Chambers, London
- Phone020 7405 6114
- Email[email protected]
Position
Barry McAlinden is a family law specialist. He deals with a range of cases concerning children in the public and private law jurisdictions. These include:
- care and supervision orders
- adoption orders
- secure accommodation orders
- child assessment orders & child arrangements orders
- parental responsibility orders
- contact activity orders
- prohibited steps specific issue orders, and
- financial remedies upon divorce or in respect of children.
He appears regularly in cases concerning the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court, cases with an international element and cases of serious harm, but also appears in all tiers of the Family Court.
He is joint head of chambers’ family law group.
Career
Call:
1993 (England) 1992 (N Ireland)Languages
An Gaeilge – working proficiency; French – working proficiency; Italian – working proficiency
Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Education
Inns of Court of Inner Temple
Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen’s University Belfast
BA Cambridge Fitzwilliam College