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Rachel Langdale KC KC
Work Department
Children law; public inquiries.
Position
Rachel Langdale KC is Head of Chambers at 7BR and undertakes Children Law cases, Public Inquiries and Judicial Review.
Acting at first instance for parties in the High Court, Rachel has considerable experience in presenting and challenging complex medical evidence. She is regularly instructed where causing death or serious injury is alleged. She has significant expertise in calling and cross-examining complainants of sexual abuse (with or without the use of a witness intermediary) and frequently acts on behalf of vulnerable adults.
Rachel has advised local authorities and organisations on safeguarding procedure and practice; the use of the inherent jurisdiction and wardship; applications of policy and the provision of services. Rachel’s advice is sought upon the need (or otherwise) for Reporting Restriction Orders or anticipatory injunctions to be obtained. She has extensive experience of appellate work from the Family Division in the Court of Appeal.
Rachel has undertaken Public Inquiry work throughout her career. More recently she was instructed as leading counsel in the Lambeth investigation in the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (2018-2021). She acted for the South Staffordshire PCT in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry (2010-2012). She has also scrutinised the investigations or actions of statutory authorities in the context of judicial review and in the context of allegations made in the Care Standards Tribunal.
Rachel provides a committed service to those she represents.
Memberships
- Member of the Queen’s Counsel selection panel (2018-2022)
- Bencher Middle Temple (2011) (Co-Chair Temple Women’s Forum 2013-2018; Chair of Bench Selection Advisory Committee 2018-2022)
- Family Law Bar Association
- Justice (independent charity, working to advance access to justice, human rights and the rule of law)
- Bar Council Ethics Committee (joined 2009, VC 2016, Chair 2017-2020)
- Chair of the Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference 2019
Education
LLB Hons 1983-86; MPhil (Cantab) 1986-87; Bar finals 1989-90.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Rachel Langdale KC –7BR ‘Rachel is a force of nature. She is passionate about her cases but never loses sight of the big picture and always meticulously prepared. Her advocacy is to the point, forceful, courteous and highly effective.’
7BR’s child law practice offers legal advice across all areas of public and private children law proceedings. Barbara Connolly KC frequently handles cases involving international issues, such as relocation, child abduction, and trafficking. Other key members of the team include Rachel Langdale KC, who has an ‘extra-ordinary work capacity and drive, and a level of attention to detail’ and Anita Guha KC, who successfully represented a mother in the Court of Appeal, appealing against a return order issued by a High Court judge in Re S (A Child).