1GC | Family Law

Laura is a highly regarded practitioner, specialising in private law and public law children work.

In her private law practice, Laura’s work includes especially complex and high conflict cases. She has expertise in cases involving domestic abuse, alienation, coercive and controlling behaviour and cases where mental or emotional health are of relevance. Her experience both the public and private spheres of children law allows her to offer highly effective and pragmatic advice to private clients who are experiencing local authority intervention for the first time.

In addition, Laura appears in cases where children have been abducted, as well as cases where this is a risk. This work informs her private client work, where families often live and work across borders or where international moves are contemplated.

Laura appears in the most serious public law cases. She is accomplished at handling extremely sensitive cases, including those where inflicted injury, factitious induced illness and sexual abuse (both recent and historic) are in issue.

In adoption cases, Laura has acted in cases where there is a risk of placement breakdown and in non-Convention international adoptions.

Year of Call: 2001, Inner Temple

LLB (Hons) Manchester University. Called to the Bar (Cayman Islands) 2010. Door tenant at 18 St John Street Chambers, Manchester. Appointed a Recorder in the family court in 2015, sitting on the South Eastern Circuit.

Appointed to King's Counsel, 2022. Qualified as a Family Law Arbitrator (Children), 2022.

FLBA Association of Lawyers for Children

LLB (Hons) Manchester University