Fourteen

Public law children, private law children and ancillary relief.

Joan practices in public law children cases and has a wealth of experience representing local authorities, parents, grandparents, and Guardians. It is this breadth of representation that enables Joan to see the case from different perspectives and pass on her depth of experience to her client. Joan brings calm and compassion to her cases and is regularly chosen to represent teenagers who are separately represented. Joan has experience of serious non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, factitious or induced illness and alienation cases. She also has considerable experience of care cases with an international element including transfer of proceedings under the 1996 Hague Convention.

Joan has considerable experience of international private and public law cases when acting for local authorities, parents, and children. Since Brexit Joan has been involved in the transfer of public law cases to other jurisdictions under the 1996 Hague Convention including Albania and Romania. Joan also has considerable experience of cases involving the assessment of relatives abroad.

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Called 1985.

FLBA.

BA Law; MA Child Studies.