Spire Barristers

Spire Barristers is praised for having numerous practitioners ‘who specialise across children’s care proceedings, deprivation of liberty cases, and Court of Protection’ work, ’bringing exceptional service in difficult cases where young people with disabilities transition into adulthood‘. Taryn Lee KC is an ’exceptional silk‘ who boasts an incredibly broad-ranging practice encompassing a wide array of family law issues; her expertise includes parental alienation, adoption law, and surrogacy-related disputes, as well as same sex parenting, fabricated and induced illnesses, and the disclosure of HIV status. Jacqueline Thomas KC is another ’go-to‘ silk of note at the set with particular expertise in serious cases surrounding the death of a child, sexual assault, or injuries inflicted on a child; she is also well-equipped to handle family law proceedings that overlap with Court of Protection work. Among the set’s strong bench of juniors, head of the public law group Brett Davies has ’extensive experience of children law‘, while Reagan Persaud is lauded as ’searingly intelligent, hard-working and dedicated to providing an exceptional service to clients‘ - she handles cases with LGBT elements, as well as ones featuring individuals with learning difficulties.