Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
In Oxfordshire County Council, v M & Ors [2026] EWFC 228 (B) the court considered whether protective orders could safely support reunification where a mother continued to minimise the father’s sexual offending…
Oliver Wraight, instructed by Kundert Solicitors, acted for the first and second respondent Special Guardians in A v B & Ors [2026] EWFC 191 (B), a judgment which provides valuable guidance…
Alicia Collinson appeared for the applicant local council in A Council v B & Ors [2026] EWFC 164; a case concerning the exceptionally difficult decision whether a medically complex child, who had…
Chloe Wilkins acted for the Applicant Local Authority, Alex Perry, instructed by Jackson West Solicitors, acted for A the Third Respondent, Elisabeth Wickham, instructed by Oxford Law Group, acted for B…
Nick Goodwin KC led Damian Broadbent in KCC v M & Ors [2026] EWFC 60 (B). They acted for the Applicant Local Authority in an eight-day fact-finding and welfare hearing which concerned…
James Dove, instructed by Fort & Co, appeared for the Respondent Mother before HHJ Richard Case sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge in care proceedings concerning three children.
The…
On 29 October 2025, Her Honour Judge Downey handed down judgment in Re H [2025] EWFC 485, following the grant of a Special Guardianship Order to H’s maternal aunt by…
Mavis Amonoo-Acquah, instructed by West Berkshire Council, as intervenors in LM (A Child) (Interim Welfare Arrangements) [2025] EWHC 3243 (Fam); an application by 15-year-old for order allowing him to live with…
Victoria Flowers represented the local authority in Re C (OCD: Parental Obstruction of Care) [2025] EWFC 261, a highly unusual case in which a care order was granted for a…
James Dove acted for the Local Authority and Alison Williams acted for the Guardian, instructed by Oxford Law Group Ltd, in Oxfordshire County Council v M & Ors [2025] EWFC 256 (B).…
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…
Nick Goodwin KC was instructed by the Appellant Local Authority and Jonathan Sampson KC, leading Rachael Banks, represented the Third Respondent maternal grandmother in A (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 424; an appeal by a local authority against the…