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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:
Adoption
Care Proceedings
Community Care
Court of Protection
Family Law Act 1996
Injunctions
International Movement of Children
Private Law Children

Profile:

Jacqui Gilliat acts in children cases (public and private), divorce and nullity, domestic violence and education matters.  Her practice involves cases dealing with:

• Baby shaking     
• Conflicting/ complex medical evidence 
• Domestic violence     
• Disputes between same-sex couples 
• Education law 
• Fabricated allegations    
• Forced marriage     
• Honour-based violence    
• Human rights     
• Human trafficking    
• Incest       
• International law     
• Intractable contact/residence disputes 
• Substance misuse     
• Mental health     
• Non-accidental injuries    
• Official solicitor     
• Parallel criminal proceedings   
• Placement outside the jurisdiction  
• Sexual abuse     
• Sudden infant death    
• Unexplained deaths    
  

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:

Jacqui Gilliat's training experience includes presenting lectures for the BPP, the Legal Practitioner, CPD4Lawyers & Family Law Week. 

 

She has 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.

 

Hair Alcohol Testing – October 2010

Advocacy in Public Law Proceedings: Jordans – 2009, 2010

PLO Podcast

Publications:

Reported Cases

 

LB Richmond v B [2010] EWHC 2903 Fam
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed71271

 

A Council v B & Others [2007] EWHC 2395
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed1140

 

A Local Authority v S, W & T [2004] 2 FLR 129 (also reported at http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2004/1270.html )

 

Re C & B (Care Order: Future Harm) [2001] 1 FLR 611

 

Re C (Care or Supervision Order) [2001] 2 FLR 466

 

Articles

 

Editor, Family  Law Week Blog
http://flwblog.lawweek.co.uk/

 

Author, Bloody Relations Blog
http://bloodyrelations.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Curator, Fami.li Law
http://paper.li/gjacqui/1335304952

 

We Are Scientists
Solicitors Journal Feb 2011
http://www.solicitorsjournal.com/private-client/estate-planning/we-are-scientists

 

Testing, testing: Hair Alcohol Tests in the Family Court
Barrister Magazine 2010
http://www.barristermagazine.com/archive-articles/issue-47/testing-testing:-hair-alcohol-test-in-the-family-courts.html

 

Draft Letters of Instruction to Expert Witnesses
http://www.4bc.co.uk/articles/article/pdraft-letter-of-instruction-to-experts-in-children-casesp/

 

Permission to Apply to Revoke a Placement Order or Oppose an Adoption Order
http://www.4bc.co.uk/articles/article/permission-to-apply-to-revoke-a-placement-order-or-to-oppose-an-adoption-application/

 

The Interim Removal of Children from their Parents Updated: Emergency Protection Orders, Interim Care Orders, Re L & the Baby P Effect (2008)
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed28647

 

I’m Leaving on a Jet Plane, Don't Know When I’ll Be Back Again: Can I Take The Children With Me? (2007)
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed878

 

 

Books

 

Civil Advocacy: A Practical Guide (co-author, Cavendish, 2nd edition 2001)
Contributor to School Management Handbook (Kogan Page, 1998)
Teaching & the Law (Kogan Page, 1999)

 

 

Interests:

Jacqui regularly cycles with Biking for Kids in Care to raise money for international charities including a Bulgarian orphanage & the Who Cares? Trust.  She also takes part in charity runs to raise money for Voice, Mind & the Who Cares? Trust including the Great South Run & in 2012 the Reading Half Marathon.

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