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1GC | Family Law Offices
1GC | Family Law
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Louise MacLynn KC
Position
Louise is a specialist in the law relating to children and vulnerable adults. She has experience in all levels of court including the Supreme Court, and is often instructed in cases with and against leading counsel. Louise uses her broad experience to work collaboratively with those instructing her to achieve the best outcome for her clients.
Louise has extensive experience within the public law arena, acting for local authorities, parents, children (including competent children) and other family members. She is regularly instructed in the most complex cases, dealing with issues such as:
- Serious non-accidental injury, including a recent case involving the deaths of two children;
- Sexual abuse including historical sexual abuse;
- Fabricated illness;
- Radicalisation;
- Female Genital Mutilation;
- Forced marriage and honour-based violence;
- Louise is regularly instructed in cases involving adoption, including where adoptive placements have broken down.
Louise also has experience of issues regarding disclosure and the involvement of the media, including PII issues and the use of special advocates.
Louise deals with a wide variety of private law issues in relation to children, including intractable child arrangements disputes. Louise has extensive experience of cases involving:
- Fact-finding hearings;
- Cases involving sexual abuse, including false allegations of sexual abuse;
- Relocation cases including internal and external relocation;
- Cases with international and jurisdictional issues;
- Surrogacy and cases involving the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 as well as same-sex families.
Louise uses her experience of practice in the public law field to provide advice when there are issues regarding the exercise of local authority powers and functions.
She was involved in an appeal to the Supreme Court in respect of local authority responsibilities to voluntarily accommodated children and has dealt with several cases involving applications under the Human Rights Act.
Louise’s Court of Protection practice is primarily focused on welfare matters. She has been instructed in cases involving issues about deprivation of liberty, capacity to consent to sexual relations and marriage as well as issues over treatment, placement and contact.
Louise is instructed by both local authorities and family members. Louise is frequently instructed on behalf of the Official Solicitor.
Career
Year of Call: 2001
Memberships
Amicus (Assisting Lawyers for Justice on Death Row)
Association of Lawyers for Children
Education
BA (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford
BVC, Inns of Court School of Law
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Court of Protection and community care
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 11GC | Family Law‘s members have substantial expertise in cases of deprivation of liberty, medical treatment and termination of treatment and alleged human rights infringements of vulnerable adults. Andrew Bagchi KC ’s workload includes decisions about medical treatment, marriage and sexual relations in marriage and medical treatment cases. Malcolm Chisholm is ‘a very effective advocate, expressing his client’s position succinctly and persuasively’ and has expertise in handling deprivation of liberty and personal welfare cases. Alev Giz regularly gets instructions from the Official Solicitor and family members on health and welfare, and care matters and is known as ‘an exceptional advocate, incredibly skilful and nuanced’. Louise MacLynn KC was appointed as silk in March 2023.
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Louise MacLynn KC –1GC | Family Law ‘Louise is extremely careful and thoughtful in her analysis and is an exceptionally clear advocate. She considers the views of others and is excellent at working collaboratively.’
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.