Ms Donna Cummins > Lyons Davidson > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile
Lyons Davidson Offices
43 Queen Square
BRISTOL
BS1 4QP
England
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Ms Donna Cummins
Work Department
Family
Position
Deputy Head of Family and Head of Advoca child protection team.
Career
Donna is an experienced child protection lawyer, having qualified as a solicitor in 2005. Donna was made partner in 2023.
Donna specialises in the following:-
- Public law children cases, including those involving non-accidental injury and sexual abuse
- Applications for placement orders, and discharge of placement orders
- Applications for adoption orders
- Applications for deprivation of liberty under the Inherent Jurisdiction
- Applications under Section 8 of the Children Act, particularly those in which the child is separately represented
- Wardship proceedings.
Donna acted on behalf of the child in the matter of:
Re C Family Court [2014] EWFC 44 21 Nov 2014
AO (Care Proceedings), Re [2016] EWFC 36 (30 June 2016), linked with JL, Re (Rev 1) [2016] EWHC 440 (Fam) (03 March 2016)
Memberships
Donna has been a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel for over 10 years.
Education
Donna studied Law at Cardiff University and completed her LPC qualification (pass with distinction) at UWE, Bristol. She trained in Bristol and moved to Lyons Davidson in 2014.
Personal
Donna is committed to providing an excellent service for her clients. She is recognised for her calm approach and skilful and persuasive advocacy. Her focus is always on the best interests of her clients which are often young vulnerable people who she is able to engage with her approachable and sensitive manner.
Lawyer Rankings
South West > Private client > Family
The ‘absolutely brilliant and very hardworking‘ practice at Lyons Davidson is widely praised for its market-leading expertise in child abduction matters, fielding a team of international child law specialists capable of taking on both private and public cases. Cross-border parental abduction disputes represent a particular specialism for practice head Philippa Morgan
, who is vastly experienced handling cases under the 1980 Hague Convention, as well as for Joshua Roderick. The team is also very active in handling child and domestic abuse cases, owing to the expertise of Donna Cummins and Iona Phillips in care proceedings and children law matters. Carol Chrisfield is a key contact for financial remedy matters.