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9 Gough Chambers Family Law Webinar – Secure Accommodation and Deprivation of Liberty under the inherent jurisdiction.
Date: 14 May 2020Time: 2 pm
Speakers:
Thomas Jones, Barrister
Topic:
Kate Lamont shall provide an overview of the recent…
We are pleased to announce that 9 Gough Chambers’s Family Law Team have been shortlisted for the 2018 Family Law Chambers of the year.
We would like to thank all those that have nominated us and we are grateful to the…
Chambers is very pleased to announce that Oliver Millington has been appointed a
Further guidance on this issue has been provided in the recent case of Re (1) M (2) N (Twins: Relinquished Babies: Parentage) [2017] EWFC 31. The case concerned two six month old twins who had been relinquished for adoption by their mother…
How long can a Local Authority wait before issuing care proceedings for removal of a new-born baby? No more than 5 days, according to Keehan J in Nottingham City Council v LW & others [2016] All ER (D) 59 (Mar); [2016] EWHC…
We are delighted to annouce that Laura Briggs has been appointed as a Recorder. Laura will be sitting on the South Eastern Circuit.
Full details of the appointments can be found
Tara represented a Latvian mother in care proceedings brought by a London local authority in relation to her young child removed to foster care at a few months old. Despite a positive pre-birth assessment of a second child the local authority indicated that…
The case concerned what constituted a ‘change of circumstances’ for the purposes of s47 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. When placement orders were made, the children were aged 5 and 7. The local authority’s care plan had been to attempt…
Esther Maclachlan represented a mother in care proceedings which resulted in the local authority’s application for a placement order being dismissed and the court ordering that the child be returned to the mother’s care.
Esther advised the mother on the prospects…
Tara’s longest running family case (24 months) ended this week with two of the four children being returned to their mother’s care and the youngest two being placed with a maternal aunt under Special Guardianship Orders. Tara was instructed by the local…