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LONDON
WC1V 7QH
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Miss Katie Phillips
Work Department
Family Team
Position
Katie is a family law specialist, practising across all areas of children law and the full range of injunctive work.
Career
Katie represents Local Authorities, parents, children and interested parties in her public law children work. In private law cases she acts for both applicants and respondents. Katie often appears on behalf of children, including separately represented children and other vulnerable parties, including parents with mental health or learning disabilities.
Katie regularly appears in complex matters involving suspected non-accidental injury, sexual abuse allegations, neglect and domestic abuse. Katie regularly advises and acts in fact finding hearings requiring forensic analysis of medical and expert evidence.
Katie specialises in cases involving an international dimension and the movement of children between jurisdictions including in a public law context, abduction and leave to remove and has been instructed in radicalisation cases for both Local Authorities and parents.
Katie is instructed in the Family Court, the High Court and in the Court of Appeal.
Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Association of Lawyers for Children
Education
- Nottingham High School for Girls
- MA Oxon, St Anne’s College, Oxford
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Katie Phillips –42BR Barristers ‘Katie is a superb advocate and invariably has the confidence of the court.’
42BR Barristers is ‘an excellent set’ with ‘a wide range of fantastic counsel’. Tina Cook KC is ‘impeccably prepared and speaks with persuasive authority‘, with a strong track record in representing local authorities in private law proceedings. Gemma Taylor KC‘s ‘cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses is way ahead of the pack’, and Damian Woodward-Carlton KC has ‘a tremendous ability to build positive rapport with professional and lay clients, treating all around him with the utmost respect’. Among the juniors, the ‘remarkable‘ Katie Phillips ‘brings calm to any situation with ease‘.