Zoe appears at all levels of the family court, including the High Court and Court of Appeal and practises across the full range of family law, with particular strength in:

• Public law children proceedings — care proceedings, adoption, special guardianship and deprivation of liberty applications, acting for local authorities, parents, other family members and children
• Private law children proceedings — disputes involving allegations of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, substance misuse, parental alienation, and cases concerning international relocation
• Complex fact-finding hearings — including allegations of non-accidental injury, sexual abuse and domestic abuse
• Court of Protection — including Section 21A challenges to deprivations of liberty and proceedings concerning vulnerable 16- and 17-year-olds
• International children law — jurisdictional disputes and assessments of family members based abroad

Notable Recent Work

• Re P (Fabricated and Induced Illness: Fact-Finding) [2026] EWFC 112 (B) - Represented the mother.
• Re C (A Child) (Interim Separation: Residential Care) [2025] EWCA Civ 1618 - Represented the Children's Guardian in the Court of Appeal.
• ADA (Children: Care and Placement Orders) [2023] EWCA Civ 74 - Represented a competent child on her own instructions on a successful appeal in the Court of Appeal.
• Successfully represented a father accused of fracturing his four-month-old baby's arm; no findings were made and the children were returned to the parents' care.
• Represented a childminder joined as an intervenor after being accused of causing a non-accidental injury to an eight-week-old baby; no findings were made and she was discharged as a party.
• Acted for a father whose daughter suffered from a rare, life-changing auto-immune condition, securing regular contact in his country of origin in the Middle East after years without contact.
• Acted as junior counsel for a local authority seeking findings of inter-sibling sexual abuse and failure to protect.