Sharon Segal KC

Sharon specialises in all aspects of family law relating to children whether in private or public law proceedings which results in her being instructed in the most complex of cases within each area.

Within the private law field, she has extensive experience of child arrangement disputes, and is regularly instructed in intractable cases, leave to remove applications as well as having significant experience being instructed on behalf of the child in rule 16 cases. A number of her cases have significant media interest. Sharon is often instructed in cases involving complicated surrogacy arrangements and assisted reproduction disputes in which issues of legal parentage and child arrangements arise.

Within the public law arena, she is instructed in cases involving vulnerable clients, serious allegations of abuse and non-accidental injury with complex medical issues; and exceptional cases involving ‘honour’ killing, allegations of radicalisation, and wardship.

Year of Call: 2000, Inner Temple

Year of Silk: 2024

Co-Chair of the Association of Lawyers for Children (ALC) (2022-2024), Vice co-chair of the Association of Lawyers for Children (2020-2022), Member of the President’s Working Group on Medical Experts in the Family Courts (2018-2024), Member of the President’s Working Group on Supervision Orders (2020-2023), Member of the President’s Working Group on Adoption (2021-2024), Member of the Medico-Legal Society, Member of the FLBA  

LLB Queen Mary & Westfield (University of London)