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Gemma Kelly

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. 

Education

MA (Hons), English, St Anne's College, Oxford University GDL, BPP Law School BVC, BPP Law School Inner Temple Scholarship

Mentions

London Bar

Family: children and domestic abuse

LEADING JUNIORS6
Gemma Kelly – 1GC | Family Law ‘Gemma is an imaginative and lateral thinker. She is an excellent advocate in the face of often serious opposing arguments by others. She remains calm and focused and is always very well-prepared.’