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1GC | Family Law
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Janet Bazley KC
Position
Janet practices at the highest level in both children and financial cases and maintains a broad family law practice, often acting in cases, which change or clarify the law or procedure. She is noted for her mastery of her papers, her clear strategic thinking and her exceptional client care.
Janet’s work in the private law children field includes a wide variety of disputes about the welfare of children, involving internal and international relocation, specific issues regarding schooling and issues which arise where parents are unable to agree about their child receiving medical treatment. Other cases involve private adoption and issues concerning modern families, including surrogacy.
In the public law children field, Janet’s cases involve complex medical/mental health issues or issues which are part of the reserved jurisdiction of the High Court. Many of her cases involve the death of young children, where the issue is how the child died and whether the death was from a natural or organic cause or resulted from non-accidental injury. Janet is also instructed in ‘end of life’ and other medical treatment cases.
Janet also undertakes the full range of finance work including international cases, applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 and nuptial agreements. In 2021 she ventured into the Chancery Division and was successful in an application to transfer proceedings there to the Family Division of the High Court.
Janet is an IFLA accredited arbitrator with considerable experience of undertaking arbitrations in both children and financial cases and she also assists in the devising and delivering of training for family law arbitrators under the IFLA scheme.
Janet is a trained and experienced family mediator who also undertakes other forms of dispute resolution, including private FDRs and Early Neutral Evaluation.
Janet sits part-time as a Judge, in both civil and family cases.
Career
Year of Call: 1980, Lincoln’s Inn
Year of Silk: 2006
Recorder (family, civil, crim): 2000
Publications of note:
Joint author of the book ‘Money Laundering for Lawyers,’ published by Butterworths (Lexis Nexis)
Contributor to ‘Halsbury’s Laws of England
Lead author and editor of the 1 Garden Court Handbook ‘Applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989’ (Jordans)
Contributor to Family Law and to ‘Cases that Shook the World’ (Lexis Nexis)
Languages
French, German, modern Greek.
Memberships
FLBA committee
Member of the Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council
Member of the Association of Lawyers for Children
Member of the Court of Protection Bar Association
Member of Resolution
Education
University of London (LLB Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: private FDR judges and arbitrators
(leading Private FDR Judges and Arbitrators)Ranked: Tier 1Janet Bazley KC – 1GC | Family Law ‘Janet is a very effective mediator and arbitrator. She has an assured and empathetic style and helps clients achieve a solution where all hope of amicable solutions is lost.’
1GC | Family Law is a ‘very good set’ of barristers involved in all areas of family dispute resolution. Janet Bazley KC is a ‘very fair tribunal’ who is very active as a mediator and regularly conducts early neutral evaluations and private FDRs. David Burles has more than three decades of experience in family law and regularly works with high-net-worth clients, while Claire Heppenstall is renowned for her ‘fair and detailed judgements and ability to manage arbitrations perfectly’.
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Janet Bazley KC –1GC | Family Law ‘Janet is incredibly calm and measured, which helps to reassure clients. Behind the calm exterior is a steely core, always fully prepared for a fight on behalf of the client. She is a master tactician, thorough and very approachable.’
1GC | Family Law is ‘a complete family set with its expertise spanning the family justice system’. It is a ‘go-to set for children’s work and has amazing strength-in-depth’. At the senior level, Janet Bazley KC is described as an ‘exceptionally smart, strategic and forceful’ barrister, while Charles Geekie KC regularly acts in complex wardship proceedings. A ‘fierce and tactical advocate’, Claire Heppenstall is ‘the whole package’ and always ‘extremely well-prepared and good on her feet and is a highly effective advocate’. Sharon Segal KC garners praise for being ‘very thorough in her preparation and hands-on approach’ and recently, in QQ v XX & Ors, represented parents before the High Court in complex children’s law proceedings involving finding the applicability of the Vienna Convention on consular relations. Louise MacLynn KC was appointed silk in 2023.