Dorothea Gartland KC
UK Bar Guide 2024
New Silks : Family: Children
New Silks
About
Provided by Dorothea Gartland KC
Practice Areas
Specialist in the law in relation to children. Instructed to appear at all levels of court and has been involved in several cases in the Supreme Court.
In recent years has developed her interest in cases concerning alleged parental alienation and in re-establishing direct contact through Court intervention for children and parents where there has been no contact for several years.
Her practice covers all areas areas of legal parenthood involving adoption, surrogacy and the legal recognition of parental status.
In private law work Dorothea is regularly instructed in cases involving international and internal relocation of children and families and has experience of dealing with Hague and non-Hague jurisdictions.
In public law care proceedings she is instructed on behalf of local authorities, parents and children through their Children’s Guardian in the most serious types of care proceedings involving allegations of sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, serious injury and honour based violence. She has a continuing particular interest in questions of the Court’s jurisdiction in public law cases with an international dimension.
Career
Year of Call: 2004
Year of Silk: 2023
Sits as a Recorder in family cases on the South Eastern Circuit.
Professional Memberships
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Association of Lawyers for Children
Inner Temple
Publications
Includes Rayden and Jackson.