London Bar
Family: children and domestic abuse
Leading junior6Gemma Kelly – 1GC | Family Law ‘Gemma can immediately put clients at ease with her empathy and understanding of their cases. Her advocacy is comprehensible and effectual.’
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Gemma Kelly
1GC | Family Law, London
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Position
Gemma is a specialist Children practitioner. She has a flourishing care and adoption practice and is frequently instructed in complex cases up to Court of Appeal level.
Recent cases have involved radicalisation, NAI (brain injuries, multiple fractures, burns and bruises) intergenerational sexual abuse, FII, murder by one parent of the other and human rights claims.
She has also been prestigiously appointed by the Attorney General as a special advocate.
Gemma has expertise in cases involving an international element, including Forced Marriage, Child Abduction and Relocation.
In private law proceedings, Gemma is instructed in the full range of applications, including difficult cases of implacable hostility, internal relocation, interplay with care proceedings, special guardianship and fact-finding hearings regarding domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse.
Gemma has a keen interest in cases involving alternative families.
Career
Year of Call: 2007
Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit to sit in Family matters (2022)
Memberships
Association of Lawyers for Children and Resolution (ALC) Bar Pro-Bono Unit Family Law Bar Association (FLBA) Honourable Society of the Inner Temple Resolution
Education
MA (Hons), English, St Anne's College, Oxford University GDL, BPP Law School BVC, BPP Law School Inner Temple Scholarship