Catherine Le Quesne

Practices exclusively in Family/Matrimonial

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Public Law

Undertakes all aspects of family work with particular experience and interest in care proceedings, acting for local authorities, parents and guardians. Has substantial experience in representing vulnerable clients and people with learning difficulties. Also represents the mentally incapacitated.

• Acted for local authority in High Court care proceedings involving allegations of serious neglect on 2 teenagers. Case complicated by historical factors going back over a period of six years

• Acted for teenage father and his parents in a case involving allegations of neglect on the part of the mother on one year old child. Case involved a section 38(6) application by the mother. Case complicated by fact that both parents suffered from severe learning difficulties. Child eventually placed with paternal grand parents.

• Acted for mother in case involving non accidental injury on a two year old girl perpetrated by father. Also evidence of serious neglect on the girl and her twin sister.

• Acting for asylum seeker in case involving allegations of neglect on her six children. Case involves allegations of physical chastisement and is complicated by the parents and one of the children being in very poor health

Also experienced in other Children Act work, section 8 orders, Family Law Act proceedings and contested adoptions. Experience in case involving removal from the jurisdiction and Hague Convention and non Convention countries.

Ancillary Relief

Has experience in representing both Applicants and Respondents in ancillary relief proceedings involving property interests in the UK and abroad, pension sharing and attachment, enforcement, co-habitation (including same sex couples), freezing orders and TLATA proceedings.

Membership: Family Law Bar Association

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