Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Mehvish Chaudhry, instructed by Best Solicitors, appeared on behalf of the successful applicant mother in A and B (Children: Return order: Article 13(a) defence: 1980 Hague Convention) [2024] EWHC 2473 (Fam);…
Emily Rayner, instructed by Freemans Solicitors represented the second and third respondent children in The Father v The Mother & Ors [2024] EWHC 2425 (Fam); an application by Father for…
In C (1980 Hague Convention: Child Objections) [2024] EWHC 1875 (Fam) the mother opposed a return order on the basis that the parties’ nine year old daughter had expressed an…
Edward Bennett, led by Anita Guha KC, was instructed by Goodman Ray for the successful Applicant mother in M v F [2024] EWHC 1689 (Fam) who obtained the first successful return…
Emily Rayner represented the Applicant father and Rob George led Henry Pritchard, of 1 Hare Court, representing the Respondent mother in A Father v A Mother [2024] EWHC 1149 (Fam); an application…
Edward Bennett, instructed by Dawson Cornwell LLP, appeared on behalf of the successful Applicant mother in Smolik, Elena (A Child) (Re Senior Courts Act 1981) [2024] EWHC 920 (Fam); an application by…
Martha Gray, instructed by Russell Cooke Solicitors, represented the applicant father in Re A (Article 13b, Ukraine) a child abduction case concerning the wrongful removal of a child from Ukraine…
Mehvish Chaudhry, instructed by Freemans Solicitors, represented the Applicant Father in A Father v A Mother [2024] EWHC 352 (Fam) an application by Father for summary return of his children to…
This was a final hearing in a Children Act case where the father was seeking contact with the party’s child not only in the UK, where he lives with his…
Ruth Cabeza instructed by Dawson Cornwell to represent the Mother in a Fact Finding hearing. The application by the Father, who resides in Lithuania, for rights of access under Art…
Simon Miller represented Bristol City Council in A & B & Bristol City Council [2023] EWHC 3041 (Fam) – an interesting child abduction case. You can read the full Judgement…
Edward Bennett, instructed by Freemans Solicitors, represented the respondent mother in K v E [2023] EWHC 2890 (Fam) and successfully resisted the father’s application for the child’s summary return to Germany.…