Dorothea Gartland KC

Practice Areas

Practice Areas

Court of Protection - Vulnerable Adult

International Children Law

Private Children Law

Public Children Law

Dispute Resolution

Collaborative Law

Mediation

Private FDR and Early Neutral Evaluation

Direct Access

Career

Profile

Dorothea specialises in the law in relation to children. Over the last few years she has continued her particular interest in cases concerning alleged parental alienation and in re-establishing direct contact through Court intervention for children and parents where there has been no contact for several years.

In private law work Dorothea is regularly instructed in cases involving international and internal relocation of children and families and has experience of dealing with Hague and non-Hague jurisdictions on both temporary and permanent applications for removal from this jurisdiction.

Her practice covers all areas of legal parenthood involving adoption, surrogacy and the legal recognition of parental status.

In public law care proceedings she is instructed on behalf of Local Authorities, parents and most often on behalf of the children through their Children’s Guardian in the most serious types of care proceedings involving allegations of sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, serious injury and honour based violence. She has a continuing particular interest in questions of the Court’s jurisdiction in public law cases with an international dimension.

Dorothea sits as a Recorder on the South Eastern Circuit.

She is instructed to appear at all levels of Court and has been involved in several cases in the Supreme Court.

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Association of Lawyers for Children

Inner Temple

Affiliate Member of Resolution