Gemma Kelly

Practice Areas

Gemma is a specialist Children practitioner. She has a flourishing care and adoption practice and is frequently instructed in complex cases up to Court of Appeal level.

Recent cases have involved radicalisation, NAI (brain injuries, multiple fractures, burns and bruises) intergenerational sexual abuse, FII, murder by one parent of the other and human rights claims.

She has also been prestigiously appointed by the Attorney General as a special advocate.

Gemma has expertise in cases involving an international element, including Forced Marriage, Child Abduction and Relocation.

In private law proceedings, Gemma is instructed in the full range of applications, including difficult cases of implacable hostility, internal relocation, interplay with care proceedings, special guardianship and fact-finding hearings regarding domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse.

Gemma has a keen interest in cases involving alternative families.

Career

MA (Hons) English, St Anne’s College, Oxford University.

GDL and BVC, BPP Law School.

Inner Temple Scholarship.

Called to the Bar: 2007.

Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit to sit in Family matters: 2022.

Professional Memberships

FLBA, ALC, Resolution, Bar Pro-Bono Unit.

Publications

Re C [2019] EWHC 1782, Re A [2018] EWCA Civ 1718, Re L [2017] EWHC 3707, Re W [2016] EWCA Civ 1140; Re J [2017] EWCA Civ 398, Re N [2016] EWHC 3085.