
Chambers of David Elias KC
Barristers

William Seagrim
- Phone029 2038 2731
- Emailclerks@9parkplace.co.uk
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Work Department
Family
Position
William Seagrim specialises in children law. William conducts both public and private children law proceedings. William is highly experienced and highly recommended, including being described in the Legal 500 (2024) as follows:
“William is an extremely competent and knowledgeable advocate and barrister.”
William is the author of the practitioner’s text, Public Children Law: A Case Law Compendium (Bloomsbury Professional, 2022), which he updates biannually for Bloomsbury Professional Online. William has co-authored several journal articles on children law issues. William is also a consultant editor, on the law in Wales, to Hershman and McFarlane: Children Law and Practice (Bloomsbury Professional).
William’s specialist family law areas lie within:
- Children Private Law
- Children Public Law
Formerly in academia, William is proud that many of the students he taught are now junior barristers and solicitors on the Wales and Chester Circuit, and further afield. William was also privileged to present a paper on a children law issue at the Internation Society of Family Law’s 18th (Golden Jubilee) World Conference, in Antwerp, Belgium (2023).
William’s public children law practice involves representing parents, children, local authorities and intervenors in serious care proceedings, including those involving physical and/or sexual abuse, serious neglect, FII, child-perpetrator/victims, international issues, and DOL orders.
William regularly appears in cases involving leading counsel.
William’s recent and forthcoming cases have included a 12-day fact finding hearing concerning multiple fractures to a 5-month-old baby; a 20-day fact-finding concerning FII; proceedings concerning issues of habitual residence and the foreign court findings; cases concerning post-adoption contact; placement of children in different jurisdictions; and an 8-day fact-finding hearing for an intervening babysitter concerning allegations of infliction of significant physical harm.
William’s private children law practice includes cases concerning all aspects of the upbringing of children, including Pathfinder cases and complex proceedings, and including cases involving fact-finding hearings concerning physical and/or sexual and/or emotional abuse, parental alienation, abduction, and both internal and international relocation.
William’s recent or forthcoming cases have included allegations of rape and/or serious sexual assault; a 3-day fact-finding hearing concerning serious domestic abuse, including coercive and controlling behaviour and non-fatal strangulation; cases on behalf of children by their r16.4 Children’s Guardians; complex cases concerning the cessation of contact and/or no contact orders; and orders made under s91(14) of the Children Act 1989.
Career
Called 2007; Gray’s Inn.
Languages
Welsh (conversational)