Laura Searle

Re L – represented the mother throughout the proceedings including at a fact finding hearing of allegations of non-accidental injuries to the child where the mother was in the pool of potential perpetrators.

Re A – represented a mother with a chronic degenerative condition in care proceedings and was able to narrow and resolve the issues at IRH without the need to put the client through the stress of a final hearing.

Re P – represented a client at IRH and final hearing who suffered from generalised anxiety disorder.

Re F – represented the OS at a hearing at which there was a contested issue over the proposed Part 25s expert’s suitability to carry out an assessment of the parent who lacked capacity.

Re F – represented the local authority in care proceedings in which the care plan for a placement order was not supported by the Children’s Guardian.

Re X – successfully represented the local authority at the contested hearing of a parent’s application for leave to contest the making of an adoption order.

Re J – represented grandparents who were seeking a special guardianship order in care proceedings.

Re Y – acted in care proceedings before the High Court where disclosure was sought to be withheld by the police on public interest immunity grounds.

Re W – represented the father in the High Court in a deprivation of liberty case under the inherent jurisdiction.

Re C – successfully represented the mother in an appeal against a decision at first instance to make a child arrangements order contrary to a r16.4 Guardian’s recommendation.

Re H – represented a father in private law proceedings who was facing an allegation of a serious sexual assault against the child.

Re M – represented the r16.4 Guardian in wardship proceedings before the High Court.

Re B – represented a father at a two day fact finding hearing who was facing serious allegations of domestic abuse.

Re T – represented that mother at the contested final hearing and successfully defeated an application to vary a child arrangements order.

Re K – represented the mother throughout the proceedings and successfully defeated an application for a child arrangements order where there were issues regarding sexual risk.

Re M – successfully represented the father and obtained a live with order in a protracted dispute about child arrangements where there was longstanding local authority involvement.

Re D – represented the father in an application for permission under s91(14) Children Act 1989 where there was a long and complicated history of applications being made to the court.

Re H – represented the mother in an application for a PSO before the High Court where mother and child were foreign nationals and only in the UK on temporary visas, necessitating preliminary consideration of the issue of habitual residence.

Re D-M – advised on and drafted an application on behalf of a European national involved in care proceedings in the UK to transfer jurisdiction under Article 14 BIIA.

Re J – represented the applicant in an application for an FGMPO and successfully secured an interim order at an on notice contested hearing.

Re M – represented the Child’s Guardian in wardship/Children Act proceedings before the High Court where the child has previously been removed from the jurisdiction to a non-Hague Convention country without the consent of the other parent, the child’s location was unknown and non-resident parent made an application for contact.

W v W: successfully obtained an occupation order for husband at a contested final hearing.

P v G: successfully represented the applicant at the contested final hearing for a non-molestation order.

B v S: represented a party who was facing an application for contempt of court for alleged breaches of a non-molestation order.

E v E: secured the discharge of a non-molestation order for the respondent at the return date.

C v C: represented the applicant in proceedings in which the other party had dissipated pension assets in breach of undertaking.

F v F: acted in proceedings involving matrimonial property outside the European Union.

B v S: advised and represented a party through to final hearing in a short marriage case in which there were complex business assets.

W v W: acted for the wife in an application to enforce a consent order in a case involving a joint property rental business.

B v R: represented the husband in an application for variation of a final order under s31F(6) Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 in which there was parallel civil litigation in respect of property over which there was an order for sale.

H v P: negotiated a favourable settlement at the FDA