The 36 Group

36 Family

Specialist Family Silk. Practice areas include complex, serious or sensitive Children Act cases, in particular those involving death, very serious injuries or sexual abuse or particularly difficult private law disputes involving international matters, surrogacy and gamete donation, implacable hostility or sensitive client issues. Also significant High Court experience practice in the Court of Protection.

Notable cases include:

Re S (Parental Alienation: Cult) [2020] EWCA Civ 568, Court of Appeal, McCombe, Eleanor King & Peter Jackson LJJ

Re D (A Child) (Appeal Out of Time) [2020] EWHC 1167 (Fam), High Court, Francis J

Re A Local Authority v The Mother & Ors [2020] EWHC 1233 (Fam), High Court, Williams J

Re C (Children) (Covid-19: Representation) [2020 EWCA Civ 734, Court of Appeal, Peter Jackson, Eleanor King and Asplin LJJ

Re M (Children) [2019] EWCA Civ 1364, [2019] 4 WLR 115, Court of Appeal, McFarlane P, Simon & Davies LJJ

Re H (A Minor: Hair-Strand Testing) [2017] EWFC 64, [2017] 4 WLR 179, [2018] 1 FLR 762, Jackson J

Re H (A Minor) v Northants. County Council & The Legal Aid Agency [2017] EWHC 282 (Fam), [2018] 1 WLR 5912, [2018] 1 FLR 499, Keehan J

Re B (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 20, [2018] 2 FLR 1, Court of Appeal: Sir James Munby P, Davis & Underhill LJJ

Northants. County Council & AW v The Lord Chancellor (via The Legal Aid Agency) [2018] EWHC 1628 (Fam), [2019] 1 FLR 169 Francis J

Re F (A Child: Placement Order: Proportionality)

[2018] EWCA Civ 2761, [2019] 1 FLR 779, Court of Appeal: Longmore, Jackson & Asplin LJJ

Re M (Children) (Disclosure to Police) 

[2019] EWCA Civ 1364, McFarlane P, Simon & Davies LJJ

Re G (Interim Care Order) [2011] EWCA Civ 745 [2011] 2 FLR 95, Court of Appeal: Sir Nicholas Wall P, Rix LJ

Sutton v Gray and Others (No 1) [2012] EWHC 2604 (Fam), [2013] FLR 833, Hogg J

Sutton v Gray and Others (No 2) [2012] EWHC 2763 (Fam), [2013] FLR 914, Hogg J

Re TG (A Child) [2013] EWCA (Civ) 5, [2013] 1 FLR 1250, Court of Appeal: Sir James Munby P, Aikens LJ & Hedley J

Re M (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 388, Court of Appeal: Sullivan & Rafferty LJJ, Ryder J

Re W (A Child) [2013] EWCA Civ 662, Court of Appeal: Thorpe, Hallett & Elias LJJ

Re DF and GF (Children) (Placement Order or Special Guardianship Order) [2013] EWHC 2607 (Fam), Pauffley J

Re E (Brussels II Revised: Vienna Convention: Reporting Restrictions) [2014] EWHC 6 (Fam), [2014] 1 WLR 2670, [2014] 2 FLR 151, Sir James Munby P

Re R (Children: Temporary Leave to Remove from the Jurisdiction) [2014] 2 FLR 1402, HHJ Bellamy

London Borough of Haringey v Musa [2014] EWHC 2883 (Fam), Newton J

Re X (A Child) [2014] EWHC 1871 (Fam), Sir James Munby P

Re S (A Child) [2015] UKSC 20, [2015] 1 WLR 1631, [2015] FLR 208, Supreme Court: Baroness Hale, Lords Kerr, Wilson, Hughes & Toulson

M v LA [2015] EWHC 2082 (Fam), Hayden J

Re B (A Child) (Habitual Residence) (Inherent Jurisdiction)[2015] EWCA Civ 886, [2016] 2 WLR 487, Court of Appeal: Sir James Munby P, Black & Underhill LJJ

Re A (Fact-finding) [2015] EWFC 68 (Fam), Russell J

Aidiniantz v Aidiniantz [2015] EWCOP 65, [2015] COPLR 643, Jackson J

Re T (A Child) (Early Permanency Placement) [2015] EWCA Civ 983, [2017] 1 FLR 330, Court of Appeal: Sir James Munby P, Black & Bean LJJ

Re N (Children) (Adoption: Jurisdiction) [2015] EWCA Civ 1112, [2016] 1 All ER 1086, [2016] 1 FLR 621, Court of Appeal: Sir James Munby P, Black LJ & Sir Richard Aikens

X County Council v AB & CD [2015] EWFC 98, Keehan J

Re B (A Child) [2016] UKSC 4, [2016] 2 WLR 557, [2017] 1 All ER 899, [2016] 1 FLR 561, Supreme Court: Baroness Hale, Lords Clarke, Wilson, Sumption & Toulson

Re N (Children) (Brussels II Revised: Article 15) [2016] UKSC 15, [2016] 2 WLR 1103, [2016] 1 FLR 1082, Supreme Court: Baroness Hale, Lords Neuberger, Wilson, Kerr & Carnwath

Re RA (Baby Relinquished for Adoption: Case Management)[2016] EWFC 25, [2017] 1 FLR 1610, Cobb J

Re E (A Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 473, [2017] 1 FLR 1675, [2016] Crim LR 649, Court of Appeal: McFarlane, Macur & Gloster LJJ

Re K (Children) [2016] EWHC 1606 (Fam), Hayden J

Re U (Children: Residence Order) [2016] EWCA Civ 1332, [2017] 4 WLR 1, [2017] Med LR 37, (2017) 153 BMLR 152, Court of Appeal: McFarlane & Lindblom LJJ, Henderson J

Re JS (Disposal of Body) [2016] EWHC 2859 (Fam), Peter Jackson J

Re W (A Child) (Secure Accommodation Order) [2016] EWCA Civ 804, [2016] 4 WLR 159, Court of Appeal: Moore Bick & Macur LJJ

East Sussex County Council v SV, TG and AG [2017] EWHC 536 (Fam), MacDonald J

Re M (A Child) [2017] EWFC B79, HHJ Booth

Called, 1996. Recorder, 2012. Silk, 2014.

Deputy High Court Judge (Family Division) Recorder of the Family Court Family Procedure Rule Committee, Silk Member Deemster (Isle of Man High Court Judge) High Bailiff (Isle of Man) Family Law Bar Association (FLBA) Association of Lawyers for Children (ALC) British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) Resolution

MA (Hons) (Oxon), Worcester College, University of Oxford, BVC at Inns of Court School of Law (Grade: Outstanding).