Accredited member of the Law Society’s Children Panel
Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500
Next Generation Partner by The Legal 500
Profile
Siobhan is a well-respected and passionate Solicitor, and a member of the Law Society Children Panel, with more than 14 years’ experience. She specialises in Family Law, particularly Children’s Rights and Public Law proceedings.
Siobhan conducts her own advocacy, including in multi-day contested trials such as Final Hearings and Fact-Finding Hearings, and has also second chaired leading counsel.
She is passionate about justice and making a positive impact on the lives of the people she represents. Siobhan has been described as one of the hardest-working, child-focused lawyers in the field.
Siobhan was recognised as a Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer in 2022. She was later named a Legal 500 Next Generation Partner in 2023 and 2025 following outstanding testimonials from leading barristers and clients, including praise describing her as one of the most devoted and committed solicitors they had ever worked with.
She represents clients that include:
- Children in Care Proceedings and Deprivation of Liberty proceedings (via their Children’s Guardian, or direct instructions from competent children);
- Children in Private Law Proceedings where they are made a party to proceedings (via their Children’s Guardian or direct instructions from competent children);
- Parents and other family members in Care Proceedings
- Parents and children in Placement Order proceedings, and Adoption Proceedings
- Intervenors in care proceedings where serious allegations against them have been made
- Foster carers and prospective adopters
- People who wish to pursue applications for Special Guardianship Orders, or challenge negative Local Authority assessments
- Foreign nationals from across the world where English has not been their first language;
- Parents and children from the Romany Gypsy and Travelling communities;
- Neurodivergent clients;
- Vulnerable adults and those with learning difficulties and learning disabilities;
- Parents that are incarcerated;
- Vulnerable adults where the Official Solicitor has become involved.
She deals with cases that include:
- Public Law Family Proceedings:
- Care Proceedings
- Emergency Protection Orders
- Complex Child Protection Proceedings including:
- The death of a child;
- Shaken Baby allegations;
- Genetic disorders mimicking child abuse;
- Non-accidental injuries (NAI) including head injuries (NAHI), fractures and bruising;
- Sexual abuse including allegations of the most serious nature ;
- Fabricated Induced Illness (FII) and Perplexing Presentation (PP);
- Cases where there are concurrent criminal proceedings;
- Cases where children, including non-subject children, are called to give evidence;
- Cases involving multiple intervenors and complex evidence;
- Cases involving significant international elements/complexities;
- Special Guardianship Order Applications;
- Placement Order and Adoption Order Applications;
- Secure Accommodation Applications;
- Deprivation of Liberty Applications (children);
- Recovery Order Applications.
- Cases where parents are involved with Social Services (Pre-Proceedings Meetings, Child Protection and Child In Need);
- Applications under the Court’s Inherent Jurisdiction;
- Wardship ;
- Private Law Children Work (Contact and Residence disputes, Prohibitive Steps and Specific Issue applications; (when instructed on behalf of or by the child/children)
- Injunctions (under the Family Law Act and Harassment Act);
- Forced Marriage Order Applications.
Outside of work, Siobhan is family-oriented and enjoys music, travel and weightlifting.
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“She is one of the best child care lawyers in the business, extremely hardworking, very child focussed, and she is simply excellent.”
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“Siobhan has been mentioned personally in Judgments by Judges impressed with her work and in one case for her “tenacity without which the right decision would not have been reached”. She acted for a mother in care proceedings in Northampton in which she pursued a claim for damages for human rights breaches by the Local Authority which we won. The client received a lump sum by way of damages and the Local Authority was ordered to pay the costs of the care proceedings.”
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“Siobhan was nominated for family law solicitor of the year (Law Society awards sponsored by Jordan’s publishing 2018) by counsel at 4PB after their involvement in which she was instructed by a father who had suffered a stroke with catastrophic consequences for him including significant communication difficulties. The case involved the removal of children from their mother’s care after a police investigation uncovered brothels run by the mother which employed minors as prostitutes, and dealt in drugs.”
- Law Society Children Panel
- Re N (children: revocation of placement orders) [2023] EWCA Civ 1352
- Re CK (A CHILD: FACT-FINDING) [2022] EWCA Civ 952
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