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Lucy Reed KC KC
Work Department
Family
Career
Lucy is a family law specialist and has practised in family law throughout her professional career. Her practice now spans all areas of children work. She often acts in complex, multi-party or high conflict intractable private law disputes. In public law children cases she acts for parents, children, local authorities and extended family. Lucy has experience of handling cases involving suspected non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, neglect and domestic abuse, where there are parental mental health, learning disability or capacity issues, concerns around substance abuse and addiction, and involving children with special educational needs and disabilities / complex medical needs. Lucy’s instructions also encompass cases involving suspected trafficking, county lines and gang involvement, honour violence and FGM/c.
Lucy’s practice includes matters with international aspects, including abduction, leave to remove and cross border families. Lucy is also experienced in dealing with in post-care applications such as applications for discharge of care or placement orders, leave to oppose adoption orders and contested adoptions.
In addition, Lucy is experienced in cases involving Human Rights Act claims or issues relating to reporting restriction orders or publicity. Her practice also encompasses the range of injunctive work, including Pt IV Family Law Act and forced marriage.
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association
- Association of Lawyers for Children
- Western Circuit
- Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group (LAPG)
- Member of FLBA National Committee
- Chair of The Transparency Project
- Member of Justice Working Party on Improving Access to Justice for Separating Families
Education
- Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law (2002)
- PGDip Law/CPE City University (2001)
- MRes Humanities & Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London (1998)
- BA(Hons) Exon English Studies (1997)
- Lucy has recently completed vulnerable witness training with the FLBA
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Family: children and domestic abuse
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Lucy Reed KC – St John’s Chambers ‘Lucy is a supremely excellent advocate who prepares thoroughly and takes control of the court room. She is a confident, authoritative and highly skilled advocate who ensures she covers every aspect of the case in detail.’
St John’s Chambers is a ‘first-class set of chambers that offers suitable counsel for a variety of cases’ related to family law. Lucy Reed KC is a ‘tenacious and extremely thorough advocate’ whose practice contains a mix of public and private children law cases, including adoption matters, while Judi Evans specialises in representing local authorities, parents and guardians in public law proceedings and garners praise for ‘excellent attention to detail’. Abigail Bond ‘inspires confidence in clients with her approachable and reassuring manner’ and has longstanding experience of handling care cases involving vulnerable witnesses and parents with learning disabilities. Caroline Elford is an ‘excellent and principled practitioner’ who regularly represents clients before all tiers of the family justice system in cases of serious physical and sexual abuse of children.