Mr David Payne > Chambers of Elizabeth Isaacs KC > Birmingham, England > Barrister Profile

Mr David Payne

0121 236 0863 david.payne@stiveschambers.co.uk

Work Department

David Payne is a Barrister specialising in Family law.

Position

David is a family law specialist with who is regularly instructed in private law cases. He has wide experience in the representation of parents and children in such proceedings. These include experience of:

• All applications under the Children Act 1989.
• Injunctive relief under the Family Law 1996.
• Cases involving the invocation of the inherent jurisdiction.
• Complex factual disputes, including the determination of allegations of physical, sexual and emotional abuse perpetrated towards other parents and children.
• Cases involving Re W determinations and where appropriate, the cross-examination of children and other vulnerable witnesses.
• Proceedings which have current, or previous, local authority involvement.
• Non-accidental injuries of all levels of severity, including brain injuries and where life-changing injuries have been occasioned to children.
• Cases involving cross-jurisdictional considerations within the United Kingdom and Crown Protectorates.
• Cases with an international element.

Career

Year of Call: 2003

David is a specialist Family practitioner who has been instructed in the full range of care cases, including those involving: 

• Where one parent has killed another.
• Where a parent has attempted to kill a child.
• Terrorism, including families travelling, or intending to travel, to Syria.
• Child Sexual Exploitation.
• Factitious Illness.
• Familial Sexual Abuse.
• Non-accidental injuries of all levels of severity, including brain injuries and where life-changing injuries have been occasioned to children.
• Substance misuse and addiction.

David has extensive experience of the many complex legal problems which arise in such cases, including: 

• Finding of Fact hearings involving large numbers of parties and interveners.
• Cases involving conflicting expert opinions.
• Vulnerable parties and witnesses (including children).
• Designated Local Authority arguments.
• Cases involving foreign nationals and immigration issues.
• Cases with interlinked criminal proceedings and resolving cross-disclosure issues.
• Wardship

David has been instructed in matters before the Court of Appeal and is regularly instructed in the High Court.

Notable Cases:

Re C (Children) [2008] EWCA Civ 1331

Re V-Z (Children) [2016] EWCA Civ 475 

AB (Fact Finding), Re [2016] EWFC B57

Recommendations:  

Legal 500 2018:“A thoughtful and thorough advocate.”

Languages

English

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Midland Circuit

Grays Inn

Education

LLB (Hons) Law & Politics (Cardiff)