Dere Street Barristers

Appeared in the High Court acting for a child in care proceedings with Court of Protection proceedings running in tandem due to the mother’s brain injury. Appeared in the High Court on behalf of the Local Authority in complex sexual abuse matter in which a young child made disclosures against a minor (intervening through the official solicitor) of sexual activity with her, when forensic evidence implicated an adult family member against whom no disclosures had been made. Appeared in the High Court for a child (directly) who was applying for contact to his father in prison. The Local Authority opposed the application and raised an argument as to the competency of the child to act without a guardian. Appeared in the High Court for the local authority seeking an interim care order and assessments of a child with apparent global delays in his cognitive ability, speech and language and who has little contact with adults outside his immediate family. Appeared in the High Court for the Local Authority as junior counsel in a case concerning the injuries found to an infant upon his death. Highly complex medical evidence involving ten medical experts from five different disciplines.

Called 1991; Lincolns Inn.

FLBA; Member of the North Eastern Circuit.

University of Newcastle upon Tyne (LLB (Hons)).