Catrin Howells

Family Law

Private children law

Catrin regularly represents parents in contested contact disputes, and her experience includes cases where a Guardian has been appointed, parental alienation, non-Hague relocation, and cases involving serious allegations of domestic abuse, including sexual abuse of a non-subject child. Her background as a family paralegal has given her extensive experience in private children cases with an international element, including assisting with cases involving the inherent jurisdiction, and non-Hague abduction.

Financial remedies

Catrin has experience with financial remedies, taking matters from first appointment through to contested final hearings. Her experience includes matters concerning non-engagement of a respondent, dissipation of matrimonial assets, and interveners. Her experience as a family paralegal has given her experience beyond her year of call with jurisdictional issues and international considerations.

Employment Law

Catrin accepts instructions for both claimants and respondents in a broad range of employment matters, including discrimination and unfair dismissal. During pupillage, she successfully represented a claimant in her claim for automatic unfair dismissal (Yeliz Cetinkaya v DAM Group UK Ltd. 2207494/2021). More recently, she successfully represented a respondent in a disability discrimination claim (H Thompson v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd. 3306808/2021).

Housing Law

Catrin accepts instructions on behalf of both landlords (private and social) and tenants in a broad range of landlord and tenant cases. Her experience includes possession proceedings, anti-social behaviour, Equality Act challenges and disrepair. She also accepts instructions in TOLATA cases which allows her to link together her experience in family law with her property experience.