Ms Justine Lattimer > Chambers of Elizabeth Isaacs QC > Birmingham, England > Barrister Profile
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Ms Justine Lattimer
Work Department
Justine Lattimer is a Barrister specialising in Family law and the Court of Protection.
Position
Justine Lattimer specialises in child protection. She is highly experienced in serious and complex cases such as those involving sexual abuse, serious physical injury or factitious illness.
Career
Year of Call: 1992
Public Law Children
Justine Lattimer specialises in child protection. She is highly experienced in serious and complex cases such as those involving sexual abuse, serious physical injury or factitious illness. Her experience in related crime during her first 15 years of practice provides her with valuable additional insight and expertise. She has a reputation for client care and in particular for her sensitive approach to clients with mental health difficulties or learning disabilities.
She has spoken at St Ives conferences and training events.
Court of Protection
Justine Lattimer has been part of the St Ives Court of Protection team since its inception and has experience at both county and high court levels in a range of cases including those involving DOL. She regularly acts for the Official Solicitor as well as for other parties including local authorities.
Recommendations
Chambers & Partners: “She picks up on the issues very quickly, and is very approachable and very good with clients.”
Chambers & Partners: Justine Lattimer has a vibrant practice that has a particular emphasis on welfare and deprivation of liberty matters. “She is responsive at short notice and highly knowledgeable,” interviewees note.
Chambers & Partners: Experienced family lawyer Justine Lattimer has a similarly bifurcated practice focused on welfare decisions and financial deputyship. She is increasing her workload in this area, and is noted for having “an assured court manner and friendly style.”
Languages
English
Education
BA (Oxon)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Midland Circuit > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Justine Lattimer –St Ives Chambers ‘Justine is an impressive and effective advocate. She particularly specialises in cases with vulnerable witnesses. Her ability to cross-examine in a polite, calm, and unflappable way is just brilliant. She is the strongest junior around.’
Birmingham’s St Ives Chambers remains ‘a heavyweight set with a deservedly fine reputation’ in the Midlands for family and children law work. Elizabeth Isaacs KC is widely praised as a ‘ferocious, fearless advocate’ as well as for her client care skills, benefitting in this regard from her background as a child protection social worker. Justine Lattimer is regularly instructed in the most serious cases involving sexual abuse, brain injury, deaths of parents and children, FGM, forced marriage, and fabricated illness. Tracy Lakin is ‘a highly experienced barrister who brings authority and good sense to a case’. Mark Cooper-Hall‘s broad practice covers care proceedings involving child deaths, fabricated or induced illness, sexual abuse, and systemic local authority failings. Anthony Finch joined chambers in February 2024.