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Joanna O’Connell

Joanna O’Connell

The 36 Group, London

Position

Joanna’s practice encompasses all aspects of family law. In cases involving children, she is regularly instructed in the most complex private and public law children proceedings, including cases that involve vulnerable clients and witnesses in complex family cases and those with mental illness and learning disabilities. Joanna is also regularly instructed in cases focusing on the financial aspects of relationship breakdown following marriage or co–habitation. Typical cases Joanna is instructed on involve substantial assets, foreign elements, companies and inheritance issues.

Career

Called 2003; Gray’s Inn.

Memberships

Midlands Circuit; South Eastern Circuit; Family Law Bar Association.

Education

Gumley House, Isleworth, Middlesex; Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland (1998 BA Hons history and politics (first-class); 1999 MA Irish politics; 2002 BLegSci law 2:1).