Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Professor Rob George KC led Natasha Miller in a significant new Court of Appeal decision regarding habitual residence in child abduction proceedings. Re F (A Child) (Habitual Residence) [2025] EWCA Civ 911 concerned a child…
Edward Bennett was instructed by Bindmans LLP for the Respondent Mother in A v B [2025] EWHC 764 (Fam); Father’s application for summary return of child from Dubai, and mother’s application…
Natasha Miller, instructed by Dawson Cornwell LLP, acted for the Respondent Father in L v D [2025] EWHC 955 (Fam).
Natasha successfully defended an application for a child’s summary return to Colombia…
Mehvish Chaudhry, instructed by Hanne & Co, represented the mother in A Mother v A Father & Anor [2024] EWHC 2643 (Fam); a successful application by the mother for the summary…
Mehvish Chaudhry, instructed by Dawson Cornwell, represented the mother in P (Re Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 Incorporating the 1980 Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction) (Rev1)…
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…