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Summary Of Practice

Public law child care & adoption; related social services law. Advising and representing local authorities, parents and children’s guardians. Private law children and family cases. Divorce and ancillary relief.

Anthony is ranked by Chambers and Partners 2010 as a leading junior in the category of Family / Matrimonial, which states he is: 

...a childcare, adoption and related social services law expert of some renown, He "approaches every case in a quiet but ruthless way, expertly picking out the right path to take."

 

 

Professional Memberships

FLBA

Selected Cases

R v Harrow LBC, ex p Carter 91 LGR 46 (judicial review of housing policy)

R v Westminster CC, ex p Ermakov (QBD) 27 HLR 168, (CA) [1996] 2 FCR 48, 2 All ER 302 (statutory reasons – judicial review – evidence)

Re H (Children)(Care Proceedings)(Sexual Abuse) [2000] 2 FCR 499
(care proceedings – evidence – procedure)

Re B (Threshold Criteria: Fabricated Illness) [2004] 2 FLR 200
(care proceedings – evidence – deliberately induced illness)

Re M (a child) [2006] All ER (D) (April) (CA)
(catastrophic injuries to newborn baby : interim removal)

Re A (a child)(independent assessment) [2006] All ER (D) (Nov)
(interim appeals from FPC to High Court: directions for expert assessment)

Education

BA (Hons) Lond ;  Dip Law