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Mr David Payne
Work Department
David Payne is a Barrister specialising in Family law.
Position
David is a family law specialist with who is regularly instructed in private law cases. He has wide experience in the representation of parents and children in such proceedings. These include experience of:
- All applications under the Children Act 1989.
- Injunctive relief under the Family Law 1996.
- Cases involving the invocation of the inherent jurisdiction.
- Complex factual disputes, including the determination of allegations of physical, sexual and emotional abuse perpetrated towards other parents and children.
- Cases involving Re W determinations and where appropriate, the cross-examination of children and other vulnerable witnesses.
- Proceedings which have current, or previous, local authority involvement.
- Non-accidental injuries of all levels of severity, including brain injuries and where life-changing injuries have been occasioned to children.
- Cases involving cross-jurisdictional considerations within the United Kingdom and Crown Protectorates.
- Cases with an international element.
Career
Year of Call: 2003
David is a specialist Family practitioner who has been instructed in the full range of care cases, including those involving:
- Where one parent has killed another.
- Where a parent has attempted to kill a child.
- Terrorism, including families travelling, or intending to travel, to Syria.
- Child Sexual Exploitation.
- Factitious Illness.
- Familial Sexual Abuse.
- Non-accidental injuries of all levels of severity, including brain injuries and where life-changing injuries have been occasioned to children.
- Substance misuse and addiction.
David has extensive experience of the many complex legal problems which arise in such cases, including:
- Finding of Fact hearings involving large numbers of parties and interveners.
- Cases involving conflicting expert opinions.
- Vulnerable parties and witnesses (including children).
- Designated Local Authority arguments.
- Cases involving foreign nationals and immigration issues.
- Cases with interlinked criminal proceedings and resolving cross-disclosure issues.
- Wardship
David has been instructed in matters before the Court of Appeal and is regularly instructed in the High Court.
Notable Cases:
Re C (Children) [2008] EWCA Civ 1331
Re V-Z (Children) [2016] EWCA Civ 475
AB (Fact Finding), Re [2016] EWFC B57
Recommendations:
Legal 500 2018:“A thoughtful and thorough advocate.”
Languages
English
Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Midland Circuit
Grays Inn
Education
LLB (Hons) Law & Politics (Cardiff)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2David Payne –St Ives Chambers ‘David is a skilled advocate, who is always calm and measured in his approach, with a real eye for detail. His preparation of a case is always extremely thorough and he gets to grips with the issues in a case very quickly.’