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Rhian Livesley

0151 243 6000 clerk@stjohnsbuildings.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Family - Children

Position

Rhian is an experienced, specialist family law practitioner whose practice encompasses all non-financial aspects of family law.

Rhian undertakes all types of public and private law cases and has extensive experience acting for local authorities, parents, other lay parties and guardians.

Rhian is well known to colleagues and tribunals alike as a conscientious barrister with excellent command of her papers and meticulous attention to detail who has a personable yet straightforward approach that is appreciated by professional and lay clients in equal measure.

Rhian conducts a broad spectrum of public law work at all levels including complex cases for example, those involving non-accidental injury, incest, oral evidence from child witnesses about sexual abuse and applications for injunctive relief.

With regards to private law matters Rhian is instructed in more complicated cases, for example, those involving serious physical or sexual abuse allegations, a foreign element, parent alienation and implacable hostility, local authority involvement or those that have a novel/unusual factual matrix.

Rhian has a reputation for approaching all of her cases with tenacity and will leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of her clients’ best interests.

Career

Rhian read Law at Warwick University and was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in July 2000.

Memberships

• Northern Circuit
• Family Law Bar Association