1GC | Family Law

John has extensive experience in both public and private law children’s cases and is regularly instructed by solicitors for parents and Children’s Guardians. He has been involved in several cases that have attracted media interest.

John specialises in representing parents, wider family members and intervenors in complex public law proceedings and multiday fact finding hearings. His case load includes the particularly vulnerable, along with those facing the most serious of allegations such as physical and sexual abuse, non-accidental injury, factitious illness, and cases involving child fatality. He has been described in the legal 500 as “Pragmatic, forthright and intelligent”.

John regularly represents parents in all aspects of private law children cases including complex fact finding hearings, alienating behaviours, relocation, domestic abuse, and intractable contact disputes. He represents children via rule 16:4 appointed Guardians.

Year of Call: 2002

The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn Association of Lawyers for Children Chartered Institute of Arbitrator Family Law Bar Association Liberty

BA (hons) Law & Criminology (2:1) Bar Vocational Course (Nottingham)