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1GC | Family Law
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Laura Briggs KC
Position
Laura is a highly regarded practitioner, specialising in private law and public law children work.
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 are in issue.
She has experience in other jurisdictions, having practiced in the Caribbean and advised in cases in Jersey and the EU. She frequently appears in cases where children have been abducted, are to be placed overseas in public proceedings or where there is an application for permission to remove a child from the jurisdiction.
In adoption cases, Laura has acted in cases where there is a risk of placement breakdown and in non-Convention international adoptions.
In her private law practice, Laura’s work includes especially complex and high conflict cases, in all levels of court. 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.
Career
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.
Memberships
FLBA
Association of Lawyers for Children
Education
LLB (Hons) Manchester University
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(2022 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Laura Briggs KC –1GC | Family Law ‘Laura is well-liked and respected in equal measure. She is a respectful opponent, and very approachable with clients, including those who are extremely vulnerable. She is meticulous in her preparation, a masterful tactician and an extremely impressive advocate. She is so impressive in cross-examination and gets so much more out of witnesses than many others. She is able to read people and situations brilliantly.’