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Nick Goodwin QC appeared on behalf of the Applicant, Somerset County Council, and Damian Garrido QC on behalf of the Clinical Commissioning Group for Somerset, in protracted High Court litigation…
James Dove has co-authored an article which explores a current lacuna in our law, which means that the state is unable to assume parental responsibility for such an orphan unless…
Jonathan Sampson QC and Matthew Brookes-Baker appeared in Re: GC (A Child) (withdrawal of care proceedings) [2020] EWCA Civ 848 in the Court of Appeal remotely on behalf of the…
Martha Gray has published an article on the coronavirus guidance for local authorities on children’s social care in the June 2020 edition of the Family Law Journal.
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Martha Gray has published an article on the ethics of remote hearings in the May 2020 edition of counsel magazine.
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Matthew Brookes-Baker successfully obtains a costs order against a Local Authority in the Court of Appeal in Re W (A Child) [2020] EWCA Civ 77.
The link to the judgement…
June Rodgers and James Turner in the High Court in re C (Lay Advocates) [2019] EWHC 3738 (Fam).
Hearing to determine the issue of the funding of lay advocates for parents who…
Edward Bennett has written an enlightening article for Family Law entitled ‘A Day in the Life…Edward Bennett’ about life as a Family Law barrister.
The article can be viewed here.
Harcourt Chambers Public Law seminar (for lawyers, social workers and cafcass officers) will be held on Friday 21st June 2019 at the Oxford Spires Hotel, Abingdon Road, Oxford.
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At a fact-finding re-hearing a child was found to have suffered a penetrative anal injury inflicted by an unidentified male, the circumstances of the injury being known only to the…