Hannah Nielsen has a strong multi-disciplinary practice across Chambers’ core areas of expertise, with a focus on family law, civil law, employment law and the Court of Protection.
Hannah is a barrister with a broad family practice in private children law, international family law, care proceedings, adoption, family finance, divorce, forced marriage and surrogacy. Hannah appears in the Family Court and the High Court acting as sole counsel and as a junior. Hannah has experience drafting appeals to the High Court and Court of Appeal. She has extensive experience of multi-day fact findings and final hearings involving serious allegations of abuse and cross-examination of experts. Her cases span issues including international relocation and return, sexual and domestic abuse, parental alienation, barring orders, Section 37 directions, fabricated or induced illness and covert recordings. Hannah is a regular contributor to Family Law Week and other publications where she delivers training seminars, speaks at panel events and writes.
In the Court of Protection, Hannah appears on behalf of applicants and respondents in Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards proceedings and Forced Marriage Protection Order proceedings. Hannah has experience working with and for vulnerable people with communication needs, learning difficulties and mental health challenges. Hannah’s cases involve capacity to consent to marriage and sexual relations, contact arrangements, accommodation issues, financial agreements and medical treatments.
Hannah acts in a wide range of civil law matters for claimants and defendants. Her practice covers personal injury, clinical negligence, general negligence and commercial law. She is instructed in cases on the Fast Track, Intermediate Track and Multi-Track. Hannah has an advisory and paper practice, with emphasis on drafting pleadings and advising on prospects, quantum and litigation strategy.
In her employment law practice, Hannah acts for claimants and respondents. Hannah’s work has included unfair dismissal, constructive dismissal, discrimination (on the basis of age, race and disability) and pay disputes. Hannah has built a paper practice in drafting pleadings and advising on merits, quantum and litigation tactics.
Hannah is instructed in crime and regulatory matters, appearing in the Crown Courts and Magistrates’ Courts, where she prosecutes and defends. She is a Grade 2 CPS Prosecutor and her experience spans trials, sentencing hearings and procedural matters in a wide range of offences.