7 Harrington Street

Family

Miss Gilmartin specialises in family law. She has gained experience across a wide range of family law proceedings, at all levels, up to and including the High Court. Miss Gilmartin regularly appears in matters before both the County Court and the High Court.

Miss Gilmartin is content to advise in conference in advance of hearings, and give guidance and support to both solicitors and clients.

Miss Gilmartin is content to draft position statements, threshold documents, skeleton arguments, as well as assist in relation to Part 25 applications.

Public Law

Miss Gilmartin acts on behalf of the Local Authority, parents, intervenors and children through their Children’s Guardian at all stages of public law proceedings. Miss Gilmartin has appeared in a range of urgent hearings, cases management hearings, interim contested removal hearings, finding of fact hearings, issues resolution hearings as well as multi-day final hearings.

Miss Gilmartin accepts instructions in relation to Deprivation of Liberty Order applications under the Court’s inherent jurisdiction, Wardship, Secure Accommodation Orders, Jurisdiction, Designation, Placement Orders, Discharge of Care Orders, Forced Marriage Protection Orders, leave to oppose the making of an Adoption Order, Special Guardianship Orders and applications for a declaration pursuant to Part 19 of FPR 2010.

Miss Gilmartin has conducted matters concerning non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, physical abuse, significant emotional harm, alcohol and substance misuse, honour based abuse, domestic violence, mental health, fabricated induced illness/ fictitious illness, neglect and infant death.

Miss Gilmartin has acted on behalf of clients who are vulnerable, require the use of an intermediary, have mental health diagnoses, learning disabilities and clients who require the use of an interpreter. As a language graduate, Miss Gilmartin has experience of simultaneous translation in Spanish during her university studies, and takes a keen interest in linguistics in the context of family law proceedings.

Private Law

Miss Gilmartin represents parents, grandparents, special guardians, the Local Authority and 16.4 Children’s Guardians at all stages of private law proceedings from FHDRA through to finding of fact hearings and final hearings.

Miss Gilmartin accepts instructions across the full range of private law matters, including Child Arrangements Orders, Prohibited Steps Orders, Specific Issue Orders, Enforcement, Variation and costs. Miss Gilmartin has experience of relocation, s.37 directions, significant safeguarding concerns, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, alcohol and substance misuse, sexual abuse and intractable contact disputes.

Miss Gilmartin also has experience in relation to applications concerning the acquisition and/ or removal of parental responsibility, as well as declarations of parentage.

Injunctive relief

Miss Gilmartin acts in all matters brought under the Family Law Act 1996.

Finance

Miss Gilmartin acts in ancillary relief proceedings.

Year called: 2021

Lincoln’s Inn

Family Law Bar Association

Northern Circuit

Miss Gilmartin read Law with Spanish at the University of Liverpool (with a year abroad in Córdoba, Spain), before studying the BPTC at BPP Manchester.

Miss Gilmartin was awarded the Cassel Scholarship by Lincoln’s Inn.

Miss Gilmartin was called to the Bar in 2021 by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.