Janet Bazley KC

Practice Areas

Janet maintains a broad family law practice, often acting in cases, which change or clarify the law or procedure. She is noted for her mastery of her papers, her clear strategic thinking and her exceptional client care.

Janet’s work in the private law children field includes a wide variety of disputes about the welfare of children, involving internal and international relocation, specific issues regarding schooling and issues arising where parents cannot agree about their child receiving medical treatment. Other cases involve private adoption and modern families, including surrogacy.

In the public law children field, Janet’s cases involve complex medical/mental health issues or issues which are part of the reserved jurisdiction of the High Court.

Janet undertakes the full range of finance work including international cases, applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 and nuptial agreements. Recently, she was successful in an application in the Chancery Division to transfer proceedings to the Family Division of the High Court.

Janet is an IFLA accredited arbitrator with considerable experience of undertaking arbitrations in both children and financial cases and she also assists in the devising and delivering of training for arbitrators under the IFLA scheme. She is a trained and experienced family mediator who also undertakes other forms of dispute resolution, including private FDRs and Early Neutral Evaluation.

Janet sits part-time as a Judge, in civil and family cases.

Career

Year of Call 1980

Year of Silk 2006

Recorder (criminal jurisdiction): 2000 (family and civil): 2002

Professional Memberships

ALC

CoPBA

FLBA

Resolution