A Solicitor Advocate with over 24 years experience providing specialist legal advice in Family and Children Law. Emma qualified as a Solicitor in October 1993, was accredited to the Law Society Children Panel in 1999 and qualified as a Solicitor Advocate (Higher Courts, Civil) in March 2007. A specialist who represents adults, children and family members at all levels of the Family Court system in
both family and children matters. She has extensive experience particularly in Children Law. Emma's current caseload is a mix of divorce, family finances and private and public law childcare matters, involving complex evidential and legal issues. She has experience of successfully handling cases that have attracted media attention and others where representing the children have led to custodial sentences within subsequent criminal proceedings. Emma has a number of reported cases, most notably Re: D (Care: Natural Parent Presumption) [1999] 1 FLR 134 CA; Shipton v Foulkes [2001] 3 FCR 306 CA; R v A Local Authority & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 145, and has been listed in Legal 500. She has also provided comment and debate on the radio and in local and national newspapers on family law issues. The areas of law covered by Emma include:
Public Law Children:
Emergency Protection Orders
Care Orders and Supervision Orders
Placement Orders
Special Guardianship Orders
Secure Accommodation Orders
Contact with a child in Local Authority Care
Adoption Proceedings
Child Protection Investigations
Private Law Children:
Child Arrangement Orders – (Residence and Contact)
Specific Issues Orders
Prohibited Steps Orders
Removal from the Jurisdiction
Family Law:
Separation
Divorce
Dissolution of a Civil Partnership
Cohabitation and pre-nuptial agreements
Family Finances
Unmarried families
Domestic Abuse
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- The Law Society
- Resolution
- Association of Lawyers for Children
- Association of Child Abuse Lawyers
- National Association of Guardians Ad Litem and Reporting Officers
- Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates
- The Association of Women Solicitors
Emma undertakes work on both a private and legal aid basis. Please contact Emma for all your children and family Law advice on:
M: 07585 700 446
