Description: Gabrielle is a family law barrister. Her specialities are Public law children's cases, dealing with all aspects of care proceedings, placement and adoption, representing parents, local authorities and children. Private law children's cases, including disputes about residence and contact. Wardship proceedings.
Education and Qualifications: LLB, Southampton University LLM, Indiana University, USA
Authorships: Articles Written for Family Law: Emailing the Judge: What's The Protocol [2009] Fam Law 439 Section 47 of the 2002 Act: has Somebody lost the Plot? [2007] Fam Law 940 What is This Thing Called a Viability Assessment? [2007] Fam Law 541 Some Fascinating Facts About Special Guardianship Orders [2007] Fam Law 423 Independent Reviewing Officers: Starred Milestones by Any Other Name? [2005] Fam Law 488 Care - The Permanant Way [2004] Fam Law 679 Parental Responsibility - How Do I Lose It? [2004] Fam Law 531 Ten Things I Learnt Today [2004] Fam Law 142 Everything we always wanted to know about the Threshold Criteria, co-author with Paula Andrea Diaz, [2002] Fam Law 850 Section 38(6) Assessments Reassessed [2001] Fam Law 544 Material Infomation [2001] Fam Law 465 The Extended Family in Care Cases - Fallback or Centre Stage? [2001] Fam Law 384 In Chronological Order, co-author with Joanne Brown, [2000] Fam Law 570 In Praise of Family Assistance Orders [2000] Fam Law 435 Legal Aid Certificates and Their Scope [2000] Fam Law 361 Have Bundle, Will Travel [2000] Fam Law 207 Care Planning Circular [2000] Fam Law 125 Joinder and Leave in Care Proceedings [1999] Fam Law 407 Discovery in Children Cases, co-author with Jennifer Kavanagh, [1998] Fam Law 164 Applications to Discharge Care Orders, co-author with Alison N Crookes, [1997] Fam Law 623 & 684 Whose Harm is it Anyway? [1995] Fam Law 94 Instructing the Expert in Writing [1995] Fam Law 36 Talking Tactics [1994] Fam Law 150 Section 11(7) - How Far Can You Go? [1994] Fam Law 39 Orders and Agreements in the Family Proceedings Court [1993] Fam Law 496 Civil Content and Criminal Trial [1993] Fam Law 385 Statements in Children Act Proceedings [1993] Fam Law 262 Transfer of Tenancies [1993] Fam Law 8 Child Abduction and the Children Act 1989 [1992] Fam Law 322
Reported Cases: Re M (Interim Care Order - Removal) [2006] 1FLR 1043 Re M (Parental Responsibility) [2001] 2 FLR 342 Re M (A Minor) (Shared Residence) [1994] 1 FLR 717
Appointments: 2009 appointed as Crown Court Recorder 2008 appointed to Chair School Exclusion Appeals for the London Borough of Haringey 2002 appointed to Chair School Admissions Appeals for the London Borough of Haringey 2000 appointed as member of the Education Appeals Panel for the London Borough of Haringey, dealing with appeals relating to admissions to primary and secondary schools and exclusions
Professional Memberships: Family Law Bar Association South Eastern Circuit Hertfordshire Family Forum Bar Standards Board CPD Sub-Committee - appointed 2007
Publications and Lectures: Speaker at numerous seminars, including: 17.11.08 - Borneo's LLP Family Department Seminar - Children Public Law Update 27.02.08 - University of Essex CPD programe - Private Law Chidren update 27.10.05 - University of Hertfordshire CPD programme - Children Law update Human Rights at the Sharp End - A Child Care Lawyer's Perspective The Circuiteer, Issue 25, Autumn 2007, p18 Family Focus on Human Rights, contributor to video (Legal Network Television) Courts Count the Cost of Care (The Lawyer, 15 September 1998) The Welfare Officer (Sweet & Maxwell Practical Research Papers, 1998) The Teenager's Guide to the Law (Cavendish, 1995)
Interests: Voluntary work: Over the past 25 years at different times, Gabriellle has been a Co-Opted School Governor at Highgate Primary School, on the Management Committee of the Battersea Neighbourhood Aid Centre (BNAC), given voluntary legal advice at BNAC, the Paddington CAB, the Stockwell and Clapham Law Centre and for Release.
