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Michael Nicholls QC
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Position
Barrister practising in England and Wales, and Western Australia, specialising in international and domestic family law and medical ethics, including private law children’s cases, jurisdiction in matrimonial and children’s cases, recognition and enforcement of orders, conflicts of laws, child abduction, relocation and other international children’s cases, contempts, families and the media (freedom of expression and press injunctions), families and human rights and disputes about medical treatment. Recent cases include: Bush v Bush [2008] EWCA Civ 865; [2008] 2 FLR 1437; HA v MB and A [2007] EWHC 2016 (Fam) (child abduction in the EU); Re L (residence: jurisdiction) [2006] EWHC 3374 (Fam), [2007] 1 FLR 1686 (jurisdiction in residence disputes); Re H (abduction) [2006] EWCA Civ, [2007] 1 FLR 1193 (HL); Re C (abduction: settlement) [2005] 1 FLR 127; Re P (abduction: consent) [2004] 2 FLR 1057 (CA); Re C (abduction: interim directions: accommodation by local authority) [2004] 1 FLR 653; Re G (foreign contact order: enforcement) [2004] 1 FLR 178 (CA) (application of Brussels II) to the enforcement of a contact order).
Career
Called 1975; Middle Temple; solicitor 1980; family lawyer in the Official Solicitor’s Office and head of child abduction unit 1983-98; QC 2006. Publications include: ‘The New Brussels II Regulation’ (Family Law, 2005); ‘International Movement of Children – Law, Practice and Procedure’ (Family Law, 2004); ‘The Human Rights Act 1998 – A Special Bulletin for Family Lawyers’; ‘Children and Brussels II’; contributed to ‘Consent, Rights and Choices in Healthcare for Children and Young People’ (BMA, 2001).
Member
Family Law Bar Association; International Family Law Committee; International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Western Australia Bar Association; Family Law Practitioners Association of Western Australia.
Education
Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; Inns of Court School of Law.
Practice Areas
Family - children; Family - matrimonial
