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Jacqui Gilliatt



Year of Call:
1992


Inn:
Middle Temple


Education:

BA Hons Philosophy & Modern Languages (Oxon)

 

Diploma in Law (University of Westminster)

 

BVC

Practice Areas:
Children
Community Care
Domestic Violence
Family Other
Public Law

Profile:

She is happy to accept instructions in all children cases (public and private), divorce and nullity, domestic violence and education matters.

Memberships:
FLBA
Society for Computers & Law

Languages:

French (fluent)

Spanish (intermediate)

Appointments:

She participates in training pupil barristers for the Middle Temple and is an accredited pupil supervisor.

Jacqui is the General Editor of the Family Law Week Blog: http://flwblog.lawweek.co.uk/. 

Related Cases/Articles:
Draft Letter of Instruction to Experts in Children Cases
The Interim Removal of Children From Their Parents: Emergency Protection Orders, Interim Care Orders the Impact of the PLO by Jacqui Gilliatt
I'm Leaving onA Jet Plane, Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again: Can I Take the Children With Me?

Seminars:

Her training experience includes presenting lectures for the BPP, the Legal Practitioner, CPD4Lawyers & Family Law Week. 

 

She presented seminars on family law topics including representing parents in care proceedings, cross-examination  for social workers, advocacy in public law proceedings, contact, case management, s38 (6) assessments & international relocation. 

Publications:

Civil Advocacy : A Practical Guide (co-author, Cavendish, 2nd edition 2001);

 

Contributor to School Management Handbook (Kogan Page 1998);

 

Teaching and the Law (Kogan Page 1999);

 

Co-author with Andrew Thompson of Admissions Chapter of Butterworths Law of Education Manual (2000 and updated annually).

 

I'm Leaving On a Jet Plane, Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again: Can I Take the Children With Me?  An article about relocation / removal from the jurisdiction published online by  Family Law Week in 2007 at
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/library.asp?i=3034


The Interim Removal of the Children from their Parents: EPOs, ICOs & the PLO published online by Family Law Week in 2007 at http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/library.asp?i=3153

 

Jacqui contributes case summaries on occasions to David Swarbrick's site - see http://www.swarb.co.uk/lawb/famLinks.shtml 

and has her own blog Bloody Relations at http://www.bloodyrelations.blogspot.com

 

Reported cases include:

 

Re C&B (Care Order: Future Harm) [2001] 1 FLR 611, Re C (Care or Supervision Order) [2001] 2FLR 466, A Local Authority v S, W & T [2004] 2FLR 129   (also reported at http://www.familieslink.co.uk/pages/law_proof_in_court.htm) & A Council v B & Others [2007] EWHC 2395
(http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/library.asp?i=3327 & http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/library.asp?i=3337) .

Interests:

Jacqui regularly cycles with Biking for Kids in Care to raise money for a Bulgarian orphanage & the Who Cares Trust.  She also takes part in charity runs to raise money for Mind & Voice including the Great South Run & the British 10k. 

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