Care Proceedings

At first instance Members of our Public Law Children Team appear across the Family Courts, before the Magistrates to High Court Judges; we can provide effective and skilled representation at all levels. Every member of our specialist group realises that a case of chronic neglect before the Magistrates is often as complex and always as serious as an alleged homicide before a High Court Judge. Many of our juniors have experience working within local authorities, providing vital understanding both of the needs of local authorities, and of how to respond to these cases.

Our clerking team understands the necessity of tailoring the individual advocate to the individual case, at every stage. We fully understand that the first application is often of critical importance and are as committed to providing the highest quality of representation at the interim stages in a case as we are at finding of fact hearings and welfare determinations.

Featured cases:

• Buckinghamshire Council v Mother & Ors [2024] EWFC 338 (B)
• Bella (placement with kinship carers) [2024] EWFC 303 (B)
• Wokingham Borough Council v The Mother & Ors [2024] EWFC 273 (B)
• S v Birmingham City Council & Ors [2024] EWFC 244 (B)
• XJA & YJA (Children), Re (Care Orders: Domestic Abuse) [2024] EWFC 97
• N (Children: Revocation of Placement Orders), Re [2023] EWCA Civ 1352
• Wokingham Borough Council v The Mother & Ors [2023] EWFC 196
• J & Ors, Re (Children: Interim Removal) [2023] EWCA Civ 1266
• S (Children: Findings of Fact) [2023] EWCA Civ 1113
• Wokingham Borough Council v Mother & Ors [2023] EWFC 156
• Oxfordshire County Council v M & Ors [2023] EWFC 135
• A Local Authority v The Mother & Ors [2023] EWFC 90
• Re T (care and placement orders) [2023] EWFC 106 
• Coventry City Council v The Mother (BB) & Ors. [2023] EWHC 1284 (Fam)
• Re A (care – judgment on appeal) [2023] EWFC 84
• A Council v H & Ors [2023] EWFC 47 (29 March 2023)
• Re H (A Child: s. 38(6) Assessment) [2023] EWHC 1083 (Fam)
• J (Children: Reopening Findings of Fact) [2023] EWCA Civ 465
• N (Refusal of Placement Order) [2023] EWCA Civ 364
• Y & Anor [2022] EWFC 191
• Re Q (Child: Interim Care Order: Jurisdiction) [2019] EWHC 512 (Fam)
• Re H (Care & Placement Application) [2018] EWFC B36
• Lincolnshire County Council v M & Ors [2018] EWHC 3279
• Re B-P (Children) (Adoption or Fostering) [2018] EWCA Civ 2042
• Re D (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 196
• Re T-B-N [2016] EWCA Civ 1098
• Re L-A (Children) [2009] EWCA Civ 822