Mo Hayes > Sills & Betteridge LLP > Lincoln, England > Lawyer Profile
Sills & Betteridge LLP Offices
Aquis House
18 – 28 Clasketgate
Lincoln
LN2 1JN
England
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Mo Hayes
Work Department
Family department.
Position
Recommended Lawyer 2024
Partner in the family department with specialism in children’s law. This includes representation of parents within private law disputes concerning the child’s living and contact arrangements and care proceedings concerning issues of child protection. Experienced member of the Law Society’s Child Panel and accredited to represent children both directly where they have capacity and through a children’s guardian in private and public law proceedings.
Career
Trained: Sills & Betteridge; qualified 2003.
Memberships
Resolution. Law Society’s Child Panel.
Education
The Westgate School, Winchester; University of Aarhus, Denmark (1998 as part of undergraduate degree); University of Bristol (1999 LLB 2:1 European Legal Studies); University of the West of England (2001 PG Dip Legal Practice Merit).
Leisure
Committee Treasurer of the Lincoln Child Contact Centre, on the steering group for the Children’s Links Contact Centre and the Parental Substance Misuse Intervention Programme. Interests include walking, reading, cinema, live music, theatre.
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Private client > Family
Sills & Betteridge LLP‘s large-scale family law practice group has a strong influence in the region and is built around core teams that handle all aspects of matrimonial finance, emergency, care, children and mediation, respectively. The practice has garnered praise for being ‘hard-working, dynamic and very focused on best outcomes’ and is headed up by Helen Derry, whose diverse caseload frequently includes divorce, property issues, maintenance, nuptial agreements, co-habitation disputes and private children’s cases. Chrystal Theofanous is head of the emergency children and domestic abuse team, whilst Mo Hayes is a specialist for public law care proceedings, specifically child law cases, and spearheads the care team. Dominic Lee‘s practice emphasises divorce and financial cases as well as private children’s law disputes. Siobhan Thompson and Ailsa Tennant are other key contacts within the wider department.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Crime, fraud and licensing: General crime and fraud
- Employment > Immigration
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Employment > Employment
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant