Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Matthew Brookes-Baker, instructed by Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne, represented the applicant prospective adopters in J, K and L (Application for Non-Agency Adoptions) [2025] EWFC 157 (B); an application by foster carers to…
Matthew Brookes-Baker was instructed by Daniel Woodman Solicitors for the child in Bristol City Council v B & Ors [2025] EWFC 121 (B); a fact-finding hearing in care proceedings where the…
Matthew Brookes-Baker was instructed by the Applicant local authority and Mavis Amonoo-Acquah was instructed by Dawson Cornwell for the Respondent mother in Child A & Ors [2024] EWFC 385; care proceedings…
Matthew Brookes-Baker, instructed by Makin Dixon Solicitors, represented the Second Respondent Mother in M (A Child) (Placement Order) [2025] EWCA Civ 214; an appeal by aunt and uncle against making of…
Matthew Matthew Brookes-Baker, instructed by Bower Bailey Solicitors, represented the father in F v M & Ors [2024] EWFC 355 (B); a final hearing in a complicated and protracted private law matter…
Matthew Brookes-Baker, instructed by OLG Solicitors, represented the Third to Fourth Respondent children by their Children’s Guardian and Vicky Reynolds represented the Applicant Council in C1 and C2 (Children: Fact Finding) [2024]…
The Local Government Lawyer reported Matthew Brookes-Baker and Stephen Crispin’s recent case Bracknell Forest Council v Mother & Ors [2024] EWFC 68.
This case concerned fact-finding hearings and medical…
Stephen Crispin appeared on behalf of the Joint Legal Team for the Applicant Council and Matthew Brookes-Baker was instructed by Griffiths Robertson Solicitors for the Second Respondent father in Bracknell Forest Council v…
Save the Date. 21st June 2024 at the Ashmolean, Oxford.
We would like to announce our upcoming Infant Head Injuries in Child Protection Proceedings Conference 2024.
Join us for crucial…
Matthew Brookes-Baker, instructed by Bower Bailey Solicitors, representing the father in the matter of F v M [2023] EWFC 252 (29 November 2023).
This was a complicated and protracted…
Nick Goodwin KC and Cecilia Barrett, instructed by Miles and Partners, represented the mother in the above case. Matthew Brookes-Baker was also involved in the case representing the child.
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Matthew Brookes-Baker represented the Children’s Guardian in a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards application before Lieven J.
The case attracted national press interest and was reported in the Guardian newspaper…