Kate Banerjee > Jones Myers Ltd > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
Jones Myers Ltd Offices
Carlton Tower
34 St Paul's Street
Leeds
LS1 2QB
England
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Kate Banerjee
Work Department
Children Department
Position
Head of Children Department and Jones Myers partner
The nationally and nternationally acclaimed Children Department excels in matters including international child abduction and issues centered on jurisdiction, overseas adoption.
It consistently achieves extremely high relocation success rate of returns of children in international abduction issues (within and outside EC, Hague, Non-Hague Convention countries).
The Department specialises in private residence and contact disputes, care proceedings, adoption, abduction, special guardianship, relocation, educational matters.
Lawyers represent private individuals (parents, grandparents, family members acting through their Trusts), Local Authorities, Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS).
Around 50% of complex case work originates from existing clients or referrals including those from law firms who lack the expertise.
Services expansion to Court of Protection work – now covering entire range of children/vulnerable adult cases.
Career
Jones Myers partner February 2005 to preent
Memberships
Member of the International Child Abduction and Custody Unit
Law Society Children panel member
Higher Court Rights
Member of Resolution
Founding member of Lawyers for Children
Education
Newcastle Univerisity Batchelor of Laws (LLB)
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
(Leading individuals)Jones Myers Ltd’s family team works across York, Harrogate and Leeds. Richard Peaker, managing partner, leads the divorce and financial remedies team, which specialises in work for company owners, professionals, high-net-worth individuals and their spouses. Kate Banerjee, a founding member of Lawyers for Children, leads the children department, which has a notably high success rate in international child abduction matters. All children’s department team members are Society Children Panel members and Anthony Parrish has particular strength regarding child abduction, while the ‘exceptional’ Nicki Mitchell leads the divorce and financial remedies offering from the firm’s York office.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client
- Leading individuals Yorkshire and the Humber > Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire