Private Law Children: Residence and Contact

The Children Team at No.18 Chambers

No18 Chambers has a strong team of skilled private law children barristers Our Private Law Children team is focused on providing clients with the highest level of expert advice and advocacy in every case. We represent parents, children, relatives, step or foster parents, guardians, prospective adoptive parents, CAFCASS and the Official Solicitor. Members of Chambers regularly appear in the Family Courts, High Court and Appellate Courts.

Our barristers are regularly instructed in all forms of parental dispute (for example, residence or contact), serious allegations of abuse, schooling child abduction, removal from the jurisdiction, cases concerning allegations of parental alienation, domestic abuse, coercive control, and allegations of the utmost seriousness at the intersection with public law.   

We recognise that proceedings involving children are stressful and difficult. The team are committed to working together with our professional and lay clients to achieve the best possible outcome. We give clear and practical advice, whilst dealing with cases sensitively and tactfully enabling individuals to make informed decisions in what can be a complicated and emotional process.

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  • Private Law Children: Contact and Residence Disputes Under the Children Act 1989 Image

    Chambers has an excellent reputation for private law children work. Our barristers have a wealth of expertise and invaluable experience at every level of call enabling us to provide sympathetic, practical and responsive advice.

  • Domestic Violence & Injunctions Image

    Domestic violence is often a feature in family cases and Members of Chambers are regularly instructed in cases involving injunctions and emergency remedies. Team work and client care are key to our approach and our relationship with the client is paramount.

  • (International) Child Abduction Image

    Members of Chambers have a growing international practice and can offer a wide range of advice, assistance and representation in relation to a child’s removal or retention from or to the UK. We are able to cover urgent applications on behalf of parents, whether as applicant or respondent, whether the parent lives in the UK or overseas to ensure the best protection for children.

We are able to advise in cases at short notice and in respect of urgent applications. Chambers are happy to receive and respond to urgent instructions by e-mail.

The benefit of Chambers’ family practitioners is the breadth of experience in other relevant areas such as private law children & carefamily finance and injunctions allowing the clients to retain the same barrister for private and public law children proceedings and finance litigation. Where there is a crossover with other areas of law, members of Chambers are also able to advise on social housingimmigration.

Chambers are accredited by the Bar Council as course providers and members of chambers provide in house seminars, training and presentations, whether in house at the clients’ premises or here in chambers. For further information regarding our lectures please visit our seminars page.

Chambers also offers out of court solutions such as  round table meetings  and early neutral evaluations. 

If you need any assistance in any of these areas, please contact our clerking team on 023 80 73 6812 or e-mail clerks@no18chambers.com

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