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Greg Davies



Year of Call:
2005


Inn:
Middle Temple


Education:

University College London (2002) Anthropology BSc; (Hons)

College of Law PgDL (2003)

College of Law BVC (2005) - V.Competent

Jules Thorn (Major) Scholarship (Middle Temple) 2005

Blackstone Entrance Exhibition Scholarship (Middle Temple) 2005

Practice Areas:
Children
Community Care
Domestic Violence
Public Law

Profile:

Greg Davies practices primarily in all areas of family law relating to child protection. He regularly acts for parents, guardians and local authorities in public law care and adoption proceedings. He has conducted cases involving:

• Non-Accidental Injuries
• Physical and Sexual Abuse
• Substance abuse
• Domestic Violence
• Emotional Harm and Neglect
• Mental Health and the Official Solicitor
• Human Rights Law
• International Law

 

Greg undertakes work in private law Children Act proceedings, including contact, residence, specific issue order and prohibited steps order applications, fact finding hearings, removal of children from the jurisdiction and child abduction cases.  He has experience of child related Public Interest Immunity (PII) applications in the Crown Court and appears regularly in the FPC, County Court and High Court.  Greg has conducted numerous Family Law Act injunction cases and is strongly committed to representing survivors of domestic violence.

  

With a background in Social Anthropology, Greg has an interest in cross-cultural issues within family and child protection law.  Before being called to the Bar, Greg voluntered for the Human Rights Commission in Auckland and worked on Treaty of Waitangi projects with Maori and indigenous rights groups in New Zealand.

 

Greg also previously worked as a learning support assistant in a school for children with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) in West London and has experience caring for young people with epilepsy and Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs).

Memberships:
FLBA
Young Legal Aid Lawyers
Liberty
Bar Human Rights Committee

Languages:

French

 

Maori

Seminars:

Introduction to Children Act 1989 Seminar held in November 2007 in Pembrokeshire

Interests:

In his spare time Greg enjoys surfing and watching his beloved Wales play rugby.

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