Barrister Profile

Main Areas of Practice

Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Family Law
Human Rights
Probate

Biography

I specialise in family law. Children and Adoption Order cases, Hague Convention, Wardship, Declaratory relief (for patients and children), Probate and Matrimonial law. I practice in the Family Care Centre, High Court Family Division primarily as well as the Court of Appeal.

I represent trusts, parents, joined parties/intervenors, children and Children Court Guardians.

I represent all those in ancillary relief proceedings including joined parties.

I represent parties in equity and partition cases.

I represent estates, executors, claimants against estates, patients and registered power of attorney’s in probate and office of care and protection cases.

I have been involved in seminal cases during my career including in recent years:

A Health and Social Care Trust v A Mother & anor; in re LD [2021] NIFam 51

A Mother v A Health and Social Care Trust & anor; in re LD [2022] NICA 33.

A Mother v A Health and Social Care Trust and a Father, in the matter of LD [no 2] [2022] NIFam 34

A Health and Social Care Trust & Mother GH v Father IJ [2020] NICA 3

Mr IJ v A Health and Social Care Trust & anor [2022] NICA 7

A Health and Social Care Trust v Mother GH & anor [2021] NIFam 29

Re TY [2021] NIFam 11

Re TY [No 2] [2023] NIFam 5

A Health & Social Care Trust v A Mother & Father; in re CW [2021] NI Fam 37

A Mother v A Health & social Care Trust [2022] NIFam 15

A Health and Social Care Trust v A Mother & anor; in re CW and OS [2022] NIFam 19

B v K & ors [2021] NIFam 31

B v K & ors [2020] NIFam 19

A Health and Social Care Trust v A Mother & anor; in re SU [2023] NIFam 1

A Health and Social Care Trust v Ms Y; in re Z [2022] NIFam 1

A Health and Social Care Trust v Ms Y; in re Z [2022] NIFam 1

Qualifications

BA(HONS) Government and Law, First Class Honours 1999

Certificate of Professional Legal Studies 2000

Degree of Barrister at Law 2000

Experience

Family Bar Association Committee Member 2005-2018

Family Bar Association Treasurer 2018 - to date

COAC Review subcommittee on guidance

Advocacy Trainor 2013 - to date

Vulnerable Witness Trainor 2022 -to date

I am a pupil Master to 3 pupils from 2013 to date

DLS Counsel Panel from 2009 to date

GLS A Panel 2022 - to date

Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Intern 2000