Susan Quinn is a highly experienced child law practitioner specialising in public and private law proceedings. She values a common-sense and straightforward approach to her lay and professional clients. It is of the utmost importance to Susan that her clients feel at ease and are listened to during what are likely to be difficult and stressful proceedings.
Family Law
Susan acts on behalf of local authorities, parents, children’s guardians, competent children and intervenors in a wide range of cases including:
- Infant death and non-accidental injury
- Fabricated and/or induced illness
- Sexual abuse, including inter-generational abuse and inter-sibling abuse
- Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Honour-based violence/killing
- Neglect
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Adoption, including adoptions with an international element
- Special Guardianship
- Domestic violence
- Residence/contact disputes, including intractable contact disputes
- Susan formerly sat as a Deputy District Judge.
Recent cases
- London Borough of [ ] v AL & Ors [2024] EWFC 390 (B)
- XY Twins Inflicted Injury [2024] EWFC 413 (B) [2024] EWFC 413 (B)
- XY Twins Inflicted Injury (Naming Perpetrator) [2024] EWFC 414 (B)
- Reading Borough Council v Mother & Ors [2025] EWFC 57 (B)
- N (Children: Fact Finding - Perplexing Presentation/Fabricated or Induced Illness), Re [2024] EWFC 326
- London Borough of Enfield v E (Unconscionable Delay) [2024] EWFC 183
- K (Child: Placement options: Concurrent planning), Re [2024] EWFC 98 (B)
- Slough Children First v Mother & Ors [2024] EWFC 31 (B)
