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LAURA CLARKE

Year of Call: 2011

Main Areas of Practice

Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Coroners or Inquests
Family Law
Human Rights
Public Inquiries

Biography

I have a particular interest and expertise in all areas of private and public law relating to children under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, to include Residence Orders, Contact Orders, Specific Issue Orders, Prohibited Steps Orders, Care Orders, Supervision Orders, Secure Accommodation Orders, Emergency Protection Orders and Adoption. I also act in related judicial review / Human Rights Notice proceedings.

I have a particular knowledge of international law relating to children, such as relocation applications, child abduction civil proceedings (Hague Convention) and the Human Rights Act 1998.

I appear for parents and the Children’s Court Guardian in the Family Care Centre, the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

I also specialise in Divorce/Ancillary relief work and domestic issues including all types of financial settlement, civil injunctions and maintenance applications.

Qualifications

2010; LL.B Law and Accounting Queen’s University, Belfast (First Class Honours)

2010; Winner of Queen’s University, Belfast. Rory Conaghan Prize (Top Performer in the Law of Evidence)

2011; Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Studies with Distinction

2011; Winner of First John P B Maxwell Scholarship (1st placed Bar Trainee); Eoin Higgins Memorial Prizewinner (top Bar Trainee)

2011; Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland

2019; Called to the Bar of Ireland

Publications

The Law Society and Family Law Update – ‘Can a Party appeal the making or refusal of an interim Order / Direction in the Family Court?’