News: Siân Cox

Sian Cox Highly Commended Family Law Junior Barrister of the Year

We offer our warmest congratulations to Sian Cox of Harcourt Chambers who was Highly Commended, in a very high quality shortlist, in the Family Law Junior of the Year category at last…

Sian Cox’s article ‘Transparency and the public interest: what is the public interested in and what are we interested in showing them?’ published in Family Law Journal

Sian’s article on transparency has been published in Family Law Journal [2025] Fam Law 1033 September 2025.

In her article, Sian explores how family law cases have been reported on…

Congratulations to our finalists in this year’s Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards

We are delighted to announce that Harcourt Chambers and a number of our members have been shortlisted as finalists in the prestigious 2025 Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards in the…

Harcourt Barristers Speak at Oxfordshire, Bucks & Berks Resolution Day

We were delighted that three of our barristers — Fiona Hay, Siân Cox and David Marusza — spoke at the Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Berkshire Resolution Day yesterday.

It was a…

Alex Perry and Sian Cox in Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead v The Mother & Ors [2025] EWFC 82 (B)

Sian Cox, instructed by Fort & Co, appeared for the mother and Alex Perry, instructed by Reeds, for the children in Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead v The Mother…

Andrew Leong and Sian Cox in CA, CB and CC (Fact Finding: Coercion and Sexual Abuse) [2025] EWFC 29 (B)

Andrew Leong, instructed by Reeds, for the children and Sian Cox, instructed by Fort & Co, appeared for the mother in CA, CB and CC (Fact Finding: Coercion and Sexual…

A year of greater transparency: what have we seen? XY Twins Inflicted Injury [2024] EWFC – Sian Cox

In January 2024 the push for greater transparency in the family justice system continued apace with the rollout of the reporting pilot into several new family court areas. This was…

Nick Goodwin KC led Sian Cox in Re N (Children: Fact Finding – Perplexing Presentation/Fabricated or Induced Illness) [2024] EWFC 326

Nick Goodwin KC leading Sian Cox, instructed by the Joint Legal Team on behalf of the local authority in Re N (Children: Fact Finding – Perplexing Presentation/Fabricated or Induced Illness)…

Simon Miller, Stephen Crispin and Adam Kayani in D-S (A Child: Adoption or Fostering) [2024] EWCA Civ 948

Simon Miller, instructed by Fort Solicitors, led Adam Kayani (acting pro bono) represented the Respondent Mother. Stephen Crispin, instructed by Griffiths Robertson Solicitors, represented the Respondent Father and was led…

Sian Cox: Transparency in the Family Court: Private Children Update Q&A

Where?

Following the launch of the Reporting Pilot in January 2023 in Cardiff, Leeds and Carlisle, January 2024 sees the expansion of the children pilot to the following courts:North: Liverpool,…

Nick Goodwin KC and Sian Cox represented the Local Authority in the case of Re N(Children: Findings Against a Professional Witness: Joinder or Intervention) [2024] EWFC 17

These proceedings concern two children who are the subject of public law applications brought by the local authority. The allegations made are that the two children have suffered significant harm…

Sian Cox in F v M & Ors [2023] EWFC 172

Sian Cox, instructed by BP Collins LLP, represented the first respondent Mother in F v M & Ors [2023] EWFC 172  complex and lengthy private law proceedings. This judgment follows on from the…