Career:
Called: 1975 (Solicitor, 1980). QC 2006
Family Lawyer in the Official Solicitor's Office and Head of Lord Chancellor's Child Abduction Unit 1983-1998
Member of the Family Justice Council's International Family Law Committee
Consultant to the Council of Europe's Family Law Committee
Chairman of Appeals Panels of the Specialist Training Authority of the Medical Royal Colleges (1997-2001)
Legal adviser to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's advisory group leading to "Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Saving treatment in Children - A Framework for Practice" (September, 1997)
Principal areas of practice:
International and domestic family law and medical ethics, including jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement, conflicts of laws, child abduction, international relocation, private children's cases, contempts, families and the media (freedom of expression and press injunctions) and disputes about medical treatment
Membership:
Family Law Bar Association
International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Education:
Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Inns of Court School of Law
What the directories say:
"an interesting practice and specialist knowledge in child abduction" (Chambers, 2002-2003)
"a supremo on private international law concerning children" (Chambers, 2005)
"top-notch" "renowned for his international children work" "His intellect can be a wonderful weapon" (Chambers, 2007)
