7 Harrington Street

Family

Call: 2005

Areas Of Practice Family

Miss Targett-Parker is a specialist family practitioner who represents local authorities, parents, grandparents, intervenors and guardians.

Public Law (Care and Adoption) Private Law Children International Children Cases Relocation and Abduction (domestic and international) Matrimonial applications including declarations, defended divorce and nullity applications. Financial Remedy Inherent Jurisdiction Judicial  Review Appeals Direct Access Instructions accepted

Miss Targett-Parker has undertaken vulnerable witness training.

Professional

Miss Targett-Parker is a pupil supervisor. She is an advocacy trainer for Lincoln’s Inn where she teaches on courses for both pupils and new practitioners as well as being a mentor for Lincoln’s Inn for members trying to secure pupillage.

Miss Targett-Parker has been a Bar Council Representative since 2016, is a member of the General Management Council for the Bar and chairs the Bar Council’s Pro Bono & Social Responsibility Committee.

Miss Targett- Parker is the treasurer for the Human Rights Lawyers’ Association.

Miss Targett-Parker is the treasurer and founding member of Women in Family Law.

Miss Targett- Parker sits on the National Committee for the FLBA.

Temple Legal Centre (TLC)

Miss Targett-Parker founded TLC in July 2013 providing free, family legal advice for people who are unable to afford a lawyer. There are weekly clinics in London, Liverpool and Leeds providing free family legal advice. Miss Targett Parker is the Chair of the Board of Trustees and a senior advisor.

Background

Miss Targett – Parker trained as a certified accountant with Lloyds of London going on to be the Financial Director of a property company and then running her own corporate entertainment company specialising in yachting events.

Miss Targett- Parker was a local councillor in Lambeth from 2010 – 2014, where she was the Chair of Licensing for the full term as well as co-chairing a working group to draft Lambeth’s Licensing Policy.  She chaired the first Early Morning Restriction Order (EMRO) hearing in the UK.

Miss Targett- Parker runs the blog therealdomesticgoddess.co.uk

Memberships

Lincoln’s Inn Inner Temple (Ad Eundem) Human Right’s Lawyers’ Association Women in Family Law FLBA Notable Cases

Re B (Children) [2014] EWCA Civ 1172

Aladeselu & Ors v SSHD [2013] EWCA Civ 144

Re S (A child) [2013] EWCA Civ 926

Re C (A child: interim separation) [2020] EWCA CIV257

Re N (Children: refusal of placement orders) [2021] EWCA CIV 1652

French (Basic)