The primary focus of Amanda’s practice is public law children cases. She has dealt with cases involving allegations of non-accidental injury and death, allegations of abuse and neglect, cases with an international element, selective mutism, fabricated illness, radicalisation, Secure Accommodation/DOLs, and cases involving the Official Solicitor, or in the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts.

As well as care proceedings, she is regularly instructed in cases involving adoption, relinquished babies, wardship, female genital mutilation, and forced marriage.

Amanda develops an easy rapport with her clients which enables her to give them robust advice. She will argue persuasively for her clients to achieve the best outcome, at all levels of court.

Recent Cases

• 2024 - Acting for a parent successfully opposing interim separation against the local authority and Guardian’s recommendations
• 2024 – Acting for a local authority in a case involving the death of a child - ongoing
• 2024 – Acting for a Guardian in a case involving complex medical evidence as the child was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome which was a complicating factor
• 2023 - Acting for a local authority in a case involving multiple relinquished babies from the same mother in tragic circumstanes involving a risk of Honour Based Violence against her if there was notification to any of the paternal or maternal family members
• Re X, 2022 – Acting for a local authority ini care proceedings in a fact finding hearing and then welfare hearing, in circulstances where the father had killed his first wife, hid his second wife from authorities, and then hid his third wife from authorities, including his mental health team as he was subject to a Conditional Discharge Order
• Re ME, 2021 – Forced Marriage Protection Order, acting on behalf of the PTBP
• Re A-S, 2021 – acting for a local authority in a case involving the death of a child, where there had been a prior presentation to hospital shortly before death
• A local authority v R, A and B, 2020 – care proceedings, DOLS, complex medical conditions, application for a care order refused
• A local authority v JA and AU, 2020 – care proceedings, fact finding hearing and welfare hearing, non-accidental injury
• A local authority v GB, AS, MB, 2020– care proceedings, physical chastisement, children as witnesses, separate representation of a child, two mothers, international element.