Mr James Schofield > Chambers of Mark Twomey KC and Alison Easton > London, England > Barrister Profile

James has been a specialist family law barrister at Coram Chambers for more than 10 years working at all levels of Court up to the Court of Appeal, in the following areas of family law:

1. Care, placement and adoption proceedings on behalf of parents and children, and for local authorities, including appeals;

2. Family law cases with an international element, including child placement abroad and adoption with a foreign element;

3. private law disputes between carers in relation to child arrangements, including those raising issues of parental alienation and of non-accidental injury or other allegations of harm against a child and appeals; and special guardianship;

4. Private law disputes raising issues of removal of a child to Hague and non-Hague Convention countries;

5. Family law injunctions and enforcement;

6. Family law cases raising issues related to Court of Protection matters;

In the case of Re: S (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 249 (24 February 2017), an appeal brought by the mother of a young child following the making of a care order and an order authorising the child to be placed for adoption, Lord Justice McFarlane, giving the Judgment of the Court, stated that James had “conspicuously” represented the mother’s interests “both at trial and at appeal with great care, skill and insight.”

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2017/249.html