Barbara Connolly KC > Chambers of Rachel Langdale KC > London, England > Barrister Profile
7BR Offices
7BR
7 Bedford Row
LONDON
WC1R 4BS
England
- Set Profile
- Go to...
Barbara Connolly KC
Work Department
Family Law; Children Law; Court of Protection
Position
Barbara Connolly KC specialises in all aspects of family law, with particular emphasis on cases involving children and vulnerable adults.
Barbara regularly acts for parents, children, local authorities and other interested parties in the Family Courts and Court of Protection. She has extensive experience in care proceedings (including those involving complex medical issues and allegations of non accidental head injury or poisoning, and other serious physical, emotional and sexual abuse, and cases involving the withdrawal of medical treatment), adoption, wardship and applications under the inherent jurisdiction, international child abduction, forced marriage and surrogacy (including cases with an international element / complications).
Barbara also advises local authorities in connection with media applications in respect of publicity, and the use of documents disclosed within care proceedings by the media and others. She has acted in the Care Standards Tribunal and has public inquiry experience. She regularly gives talks at conferences and seminars on family law, both in England and internationally.
Barbara’s more recent significant reported cases include:
- Re T (Fact-Finding: Second Appeal) [2023] EWCA Civ 475
- Re R (Children: Control of Court Documents) [2021] EWCA Civ 162
- Re A (Children) (Fact-finding: Appeal) [2019] EWCA Civ 74
- Re G-P (A Child) [2019] EWCA Civ 56
- Re P (Children) (Care proceedings: Special Guardianship Orders) [2018] EWCA Civ 1407
Career
Called Inner Temple 1986; Silk 2012.
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association
- Association of Lawyers for Children
- International Bar Association – Officer on Advisory Panel of the Family Law Committee, former Chair
- Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2Barbara Connolly KC –7BR ‘Barbara is one of the leading silks in complex public law children cases. She has a gravitas, capacity to absorb and synthesise information, and her understanding of the law and strategy is second to none.’
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).