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Provided by Daisy Hughes
Daisy specialises in family law as it relates to children.
Daisy is particularly experienced in complex private law cases, including those involving allegations of domestic abuse/intractable hostility to contact/parental alienation, drug/alcohol addiction, mental health issues, allegations of physical or sexual abuse, transgender issues, lesbian mothers and/or gay fathers, donor-conceived children, issues of legal parenthood and complex religious considerations.
Daisy appears regularly in cases where one parent seeks to relocate with the children, both within this jurisdiction or internationally.
She also represents local authorities, parents (including prospective adoptive parents), extended family members, foster carers and children at all stages of public law Children Act and Adoption matters and is also experienced in cases involving the alleged "radicalisation" of children. She acts in cases involving complex medical and factual evidence such as that arising from possible non-accidental injuries or disputed drug test results and in cases in which there are allegations of sexual or physical abuse.
Year of Call: 1999.
Following completion of Pupillage in October 2000 and prior to taking up tenancy, Daisy spent a term as Judicial Assistant to the then President of the Family Division, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. In 2003, as the recipient of a Pegasus Scholarship, she spent three months working at a specialist family law firm in Sydney, Australia.
Provided by Chambers
Daisy Hughes is an experienced child practitioner who handles all manner of adoption and Children Act cases. She has particular expertise in acrimonious cases involving domestic violence and non-accidental injury. Hughes also frequently acts in serious care proceedings, including those touching on sexual abuse issues.
Provided by Chambers
Daisy is a fabulous barrister, who is measured but firm. Tactical and pragmatic in her advice, she is a real champion for her clients and also very empathetic towards them.
A go-to for complex children work, including leave to remove cases. She is smart, always well prepared and a dream to watch when on her feet.
Daisy is an incredibly impressive barrister, loved by the most demanding of clients. Her instructing solicitors feel totally reassured that their case is in the best of hands.
Daisy is a fabulous barrister, who is measured but firm. Tactical and pragmatic in her advice, she is a real champion for her clients and also very empathetic towards them.
A go-to for complex children work, including leave to remove cases. She is smart, always well prepared and a dream to watch when on her feet.
Daisy is an incredibly impressive barrister, loved by the most demanding of clients. Her instructing solicitors feel totally reassured that their case is in the best of hands.
