1GC | Family Law

Daisy specialises in family law as it relates to children.

She regularly represents local authorities, parents (including prospective adoptive parents), foster carers, extended family members (particularly grandparents) and children at all stages of private and public law children proceedings.

She acts in cases involving complex medical and factual evidence arising from possible non-accidental injuries and in cases in which there are allegations of sexual or physical abuse. She is experienced in cases involving disputed scientific evidence including that arising from drug or alcohol testing and in cases involving the alleged "radicalisation" of children.

She is experienced in private law cases, including those in which: the child is separately represented; there are gay father(s)/ lesbian mother(s); there are issues relating to legal parenthood/ the implications of reproductive technologies/ surrogacy; there are allegations of domestic abuse; there is suspected parental alienation/ implacable hostility and/or difficult religious considerations.

Daisy is also experienced in cases of international abduction and international adoption.

Daisy appears regularly in relocation cases.

Following completion of Pupillage in October 2000 and prior to taking up tenancy, Daisy spent a term as Judicial Assistant to the then President of the Family Division, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. In 2003, as the recipient of a Pegasus Scholarship, she spent three months working at a specialist family law firm in Sydney, Australia.

She has spent her time at the Bar specialising in Children work.

Association of Lawyers for Children

Family Law Bar Association

Honourable Society of Middle Temple

South Eastern Circuit

Grey Court School; Wadham College, Oxford University. Jurisprudence BA 1997