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Kerry Holt

01244 323 070 clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Family - Children

Position

Kerry practises in all areas of public and private children law, including injunctive relief.

Kerry has extensive experience representing local authorities, parents, extended family members and children in all matters of sensitive and complex public law cases.

She frequently appears in care proceedings in which the central issues involve allegations of neglect, chronic domestic violence, substance misuse, serious inflicted injuries (including non-accidental death/murder) and sexual abuse (including cases involving historic and interfamilial allegations and allegations against multiple perpetrators as well as cases involving numerous local authorities and large-scale litigation).

She deals with all matters relating to adoption and special guardianship applications.

Kerry has a broad private law practice and is regularly instructed in complex applications which include issues of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of both adults and children, implacable hostility and parental alienation, relocation issues and removal from the jurisdiction.

Kerry has a particular interest in cases involving parental alienation allegations and has been instructed in numerous matters that have involved allegations of coercing or coaching children to make false allegations of abuse.

Career

Kerry was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 2009 and completed a common law pupillage on the North Eastern Circuit before specialising solely in family law.

Memberships

• Family Law Bar Association
• Inner Temple

Education

Kerry graduated from Keele University in 2005 with a First Class Honours degree.