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Lucy Reed KC
Work Department
Family
Career
Called 2002, Lincoln’s Inn; National Committee FLBA. Publications: Pink Tape family law blog, ‘Family Courts Without a Lawyer – A Handbook for Litigants in Person’ (4th Edition Bath Publishing 2022), Transparency in The Family Court: Publicity and Privacy in Practice (2018, Bloomsbury Press). Recorder 2022. Member of Justice Working Party on Improving Access to Justice for Separating Families.
Lucy is a family law specialist and has practiced in family law throughout her professional career. Her practice now encompasses the range 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 and FGM/C, 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 also has experience of international child abduction work including Hague Convention, and of wardship and international and contested adoption matters.
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.
Lucy is instructed at first instance in the Family Court and High Court and in appellate work.
Other
Alongside her court practice Lucy writes and talks on family law and has particular interests in issues arising from the involvement of litigants in person in family cases, and in issues surrounding the publication of information arising from family proceedings and transparency.
Lucy is an Advocate panel member.
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association
- Association of Lawyers for Children
- Western Circuit
- Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group (LAPG)
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 violence
(2023 Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Lucy Reed KC – St John’s Chambers ‘Lucy is a wonderful barrister, as strong on written submissions as she is on her feet, where she attracts the ear of judges with her court manner, and more than holds her own with silks far more senior than her.‘