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Family - Children

Lance is highly regarded for his public law children work, and is regularly instructed by local authorities, guardians, parents, other relatives and intervenors, and appears at all levels up to and including the High Court, dealing with cases at all stages including regularly conducting finding of fact and final hearings.

Lance has experience of complex and varied cases involving allegations of serious sexual abuse of children, serious non-accidental injury to children involving complex facts and medical evidence, serious domestic violence, physical abuse, emotional harm, and long-standing parental neglect. He also has experience of cases involving the Court’s inherent jurisdiction.

Lance’s private law children practice covers parental alienation and specific issue applications including relocation of children both within and outside the jurisdiction of England and Wales, change of school and change of a child’s name.

Family Law Bar Association North Eastern Circuit Resolution

Lance read law at the University of Durham achieving a Master’s degree in Law.

He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Middle Temple in 2007.

Lance completed the Vulnerable Witness Advocacy Training in 2023.