Expertise and experience
Fiona is a partner and a specialist children’s lawyer and advocate, which means that she can represent her clients in the family court.
She mainly represents parents, family members and children of all ages in care proceedings. Fiona also has considerable experience in family disputes over children after divorce or separation.
The types of cases that Fiona has been involved in include:
- representing anyone involved in care proceedings, such as parents, foster parents, children and other relatives;
- representing older children where their views differ from those of their guardian or their parents, to ensure that they are comfortable with the contact and residence arrangements that are proposed;
- advocating the views of children involved in family disputes, particularly where they are being denied the opportunity to have an ongoing relationship with one parent (parental alienation);
- working on behalf of children in international care proceedings, to ensure that the views of the child or parents are heard and that proceedings can be kept in the UK.
Fiona is recognised in the 2021 Legal 500 as a ‘recommended lawyer’.
Practice areas
- Adoption
- Care orders
- Child protection investigations
- Contact with a child in Local Authority care
- Emergency protection orders
- Fabricated or induced illness in children
- Female genital mutilation
- Forced marriage
- Non-accidental injury to children
- Obtaining legal responsibility for a child
- Secure accommodation orders
- Supervision orders
