Dorothea Gartland KC

Practice Areas

Specialist in the law in relation to children. Instructed to appear at all levels of court and has been involved in several cases in the Supreme Court.

In recent years has developed her 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.

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

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.

In public law care proceedings she is instructed on behalf of local authorities, parents and 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.

Career

Year of Call: 2004

Year of Silk: 2023

Sits as a Recorder in family cases on the South Eastern Circuit.

Professional Memberships

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Association of Lawyers for Children

Inner Temple

Publications

Includes Rayden and Jackson.