Adele is a highly sought-after family law practitioner with a busy and thriving diverse practice spanning across all areas of family law, including financial remedies, and both public and private children law proceedings. Known for her meticulous preparation, sound judgement, and practical approach, she is regularly instructed by solicitors and is consistently praised by lay clients, professional clients, and members of the judiciary for her thorough preparation, pragmatic advice and effective advocacy. In addition to her own cases, she has been led by senior juniors and silks.
Adele has a proven ability to analyse complex legal issues swiftly, provide clear and strategic advice along with robust representation even in the most difficult of circumstances. Adele’s legal expertise and her extensive experience working with individuals from all walks of life, enables her to quickly build strong relationships with clients, adapting her approach to meet their unique needs and circumstances. Adele is particularly skilled in handling sensitive matters with empathy and professionalism, while confidently navigating cases involving intricate and challenging legal issues.
Adele is a confident and effective advocate, recognised for her skilled cross-examination of both lay and expert witnesses and her pragmatic, solutions-focused approach.
Adele also continues to accept instructions in Civil Law.
Outside of her legal practice, Adele is a keen netball player for her local team, an enthusiastic traveller and is a regular theatregoer.
Family law
Public Children Law
In her public law practice, Adele is instructed on behalf of parents, grandparents and children’s guardians. Adele looks forward to continuing to building upon her public law practice at 42BR. Adele is now expanding her work to include acting on behalf of local authorities and welcomes instructions across the full range of care and related proceedings. Her experience spans the full spectrum of public law proceedings, including cases involving neglect, domestic abuse, mental health difficulties, substance misuse, sexual abuse and non-accidental injuries. Adele is frequently engaged in urgent applications, including Emergency Protection Orders and Interim Care Orders, Case Management Hearings, Issue Resolution Hearings, Final Hearings and is adept at assimilating complex evidence at pace.
Private Children Law
Adele regularly represents parents, grandparents and children in complex and often high-conflict private law disputes. She is particularly experienced in fact-finding hearings and final hearings involving allegations of substance misuse, parental alienation, domestic abuse, coercive and controlling behaviour and sexual abuse.
Adele has also appeared in the High Court and has experience drafting grounds of appeal and skeleton arguments for such hearings.
International Family Law
Adele accepts instructions in cases with an international dimension, including relocation applications and child abduction proceedings.
Financial Remedies
Adele acts for both applicants and respondents across all stages of financial remedy proceedings, from First Directions Appointments and Financial Dispute Resolution hearings through to final hearings. Adele also has experience with Preliminary Issue hearings, Freezing Injunctions and with cases involving substantial third-party disclosure orders.
Adele was at first, sole counsel, and then junior counsel in the reported cases of TYB v CAR (Non-Disclosure) [2023] EWFC 261 (B) and TYB v CAR (Non-Disclosure) (No.2) [2025] EWFC 263 (B), which considered the consequences of non-disclosure and non-compliance in financial remedy proceedings. The litigation involved significant international elements and complex third-party disclosure issues where a very favourable outcome was obtained for the client.
Domestic Abuse
Adele regularly represents both applicants and respondents in applications for Non-Molestation Orders, Transfer of Tenancy Orders and Occupation Orders, including urgent without-notice applications.
Modern Families
Adele accepts instructions across a broad range of modern family law matters, including adoption, surrogacy, assisted conception, parental responsibility and child arrangements disputes. She is committed to providing clear, practical advice tailored to the needs of modern families.
Recent Cases:
- T v M [2026]- Instructed on behalf of the Wife who was deemed to have no litigation capacity and was facing Fraud allegations in financial remedy proceedings.
- Re M [2025] - Instructed on behalf of the Mother for a 7-day fact finding hearing which involved allegations of sexual abuse of a child. A number of findings were made against the Father.
- Re M [2025]- Successfully resisted a permission to appeal request in the High Court as junior counsel.
- Re E [2025]- Adele was successful in the Mother’s application to remove parental responsibility from the Father. The Father had been convicted in the criminal courts of perpetrating severe domestic abuse against the Mother.
- Re S [2025]- Instructed on behalf of the Mother as junior counsel for a 5-day fact-finding hearing which involved allegations of sexual abuse of a child. This matter included expert evidence, multiple witnesses and involved a large amount of conflicting medical disclosure.
Recent Reported Cases:
Civil Law
Prior to Adele’s career at the Bar, Adele worked as a County Court Advocate representing clients in over 1000 civil matters not limited to the following areas of law: personal injury; insolvency; property; and landlord-tenant. This experience allowed Adele to develop a firm understanding of the day-to-day realities of a strong civil legal practice. Throughout her career at the Bar, Adele has continued to build her civil practice.
- Adele continues to accept instructions in civil matters, including but not limited to:
- Property disputes (Landlord & Tenant and Mortgage Repossessions).
- Civil Applications (Applications to set aside judgment, relief from sanctions, summary judgment, striking out statements of case and security of costs).
- Personal Injury (Infant settlements, Stage 3 Disposal Hearings, including advising on quantum in respect of Adults and Children).
- Lender services.
- Debt Recovery.
- Small claims /Fast Track/ Multi Track trials in all areas.
- Return of goods.
- Insolvency (Bankruptcy Petitions and Winding Up Orders).
- Enforcement Proceedings (including charging orders, attachment of earnings, third party debt orders).
- Costs Proceedings and;
- Appeals.
