Barristers
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Cliona Papazian
- Phone020 7427 5200
- Email[email protected]
Position
Cliona Papazian specialises in all aspects of law concerning children- particularly with an international element. Clients like her ‘robust’ and ‘creative’ approach and note her ‘attention to detail’ and commend her ‘thoroughness’. Cliona regularly appears the High Court as a significant amount of her work is concerned with child abduction (Hague Convention and non Convention); Wardship and where there are issues in respect of the Court’s jurisdiction. She has extensive experience of the enforcement of foreign contact orders and other aspects of law arising from international conventions. She is often instructed in public law cases where there is an international element and continues to act for Local Authorities, parents and children in both public and private law cases. She is a trained mediator and collaborative lawyer. Her recent cases include: Re M (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 1519; FB v IB [2014]EWHC 759 (Fam); Re A (Children) (2013) AC9101290; Joyce v Joyce [2013] EWHC 1353 (Fam); Re L (A Child) [2012) EWCA Civ 1157; Re LSDC (A Child) [2012] EWHC 983 (Fam); Re AR (A Child: Relocation) [2010] 2 FLR 1577 : [2010]3 FCR 131: [2010] Fam Law 932: 1346.
Education
National University, Ireland; University of Wales, College of Law, Cardiff (BA; LLB; MA).