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Mary Lazarus   Mary Lazarus
Date of: Call - 1991
Phone:   020 7831 0222  
Fax:   020 7831 2239  
Email:   clerks@42br.com  
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Summary Of Practice

Highly experienced in public law children work; instructed by local authorities, guardian and parent solicitors in London and the South East in complex cases involving

  • non-accidental injury,
  • sexual abuse, 
  • serious neglect;

and in closely related areas such as

  • media reporting restrictions,
  • medical treatment of children,
  • mental health,
  • forced marriage,
  • international/immigration issues,
  • social services’ duties,
  • wardship,
  • Court of Protection.

Private law work focuses upon international abduction, relocation and contact.

 

Professional Memberships

FLBA

Mental Health Review Tribunal Judge  (Fee-paid part-time)

 

Selected Cases

Re. L (Care: Confidentiality) [1999] 1 FLR 165 (childcare/evidence)

Re. D (Simultaneous applications for care order and freeing order) [1999] 2 FLR 49 (childcare/procedure/expert evidence)

Re. B (Split hearings: Jurisdiction) [2000] 1 FLR 334 (childcare/appeals/jurisdiction on facts)

R (ex p. Hickmott) v Brighton and Hove CC, Brighton and Hove NHS PCT [2004] EWHC 2474 (Admin) (social welfare/mental health/administrative law)

A Local Authority v K, D, L [2005] EWHC 144 (Fam) (childcare/expert evidence/evidence)

Re. G (a child) [2006] EWCA Civ 1507 (children)

Re. LM (Reporting Restrictions: Coroner's Inquest) [2007] EWHC 1902 (Fam) (childcare/reporting restrictions)

Re. S (a child) [2008] EWCA Civ 365 (childcare/expert evidence)

Re. East Sussex County Council & 8 others [2009] EWHC 935 (Fam) (reporting restrictions/family law/human rights/local government)

 

Education

Marlborough College, Cambridge University

Mary Lazarus
is a member of these practice teams:

Family

Public,
Local Government
& Environmental