Alison Williams > Harcourt Chambers > London, England > Barrister Profile

Harcourt Chambers
2 HARCOURT BUILDINGS, TEMPLE
LONDON
EC4Y 9DB
England

Position

Also Oxford (0844 561 7135). Specialises in all areas relating to children’s law and provides representation at all levels of court.  

Public law practice encompasses cases involving issues such as mental health, cognitive difficulties, substance abuse, neglect, domestic violence, over-chastisement, non-accidental injury (including fractures and shaken baby cases), sexual abuse, interference with medical equipment and fabricated and induced illness. 

Experience in private law includes all applications pursuant to section 8 of the Children Act 1989, applications for special guardianship orders, internal relocation and removal from the jurisdiction.  Often instructed in complex cases involving implacable hostility, parental alienation, domestic violence, mental health and substance abuse issues and where children’s services are involved.  

Frequently acts in cases where there are vulnerable litigants.  Aims to take a sensitive and pragmatic approach with her clients.

Career

Called 2004, Gray’s Inn.

Languages

Basic Italian.

Memberships

FLBA.

Education

UCL (2002 BA History 2(1)); College of Law (2003 PgDL Commendation; 2004 BVC Very Competent).

Leisure

Theatre, reading, walking, current affairs.