Hannah Perry

Practice Areas

She regularly acts for children, parents and other family members in complex care cases where children have suffered non accidental injuries, serious physical or sexual abuse, deprivation of liberty cases, and those with international issues requiring transfer of proceedings between jurisdictions. Hannah has experience in advising and representing prospective adopters and children through their children’s guardian on adoption procedures within England and Wales and also in relation to Intercountry adoptions. Hannah undertakes her own advocacy at all levels.

Career

Hannah joined TV Edwards in 2012 and has been Head of the Children and Domestic Abuse team and Joint Head of the Family department since October 2019. She qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and has 20 years’ experience working with clients in both public and private law children cases, as well as those involving domestic abuse and forced marriage.

Professional Memberships

Panel memberships:

- Hannah is a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel.

Memberships:

- Member of the Association of Lawyers for Children.

- Resolution

Committee Memberships:

- Former Co-Chair of the Association of Lawyers for Children (November 2019-November 2022).

- Former Solicitor member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee (2014-Autumn 2019).

- Member of Resolution’s Legal Aid Committee.

Accreditations:

- Hannah is a Resolution accredited specialist in domestic abuse and children law (private) cases.

Publications

- Contributor to Resolution Guides to Good practice and Review magazine and to the Association of Lawyer’s for Children Newsletter.

- Introducing the Association of Lawyers for Children

Work Highlights

- Hannah acted pro bono for the Association of Lawyers for Children in the case of Griffiths v Tickle [2021] EWCA Civ 1882 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2021/1882.html, which was shortlisted as a case of the year at the LexisNexis UK Family Law Awards 2022 https://www.familylawawards.com/ehome/familylawawards2022/finalists/

- P-S (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 1407 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/1407.html

London Borough of Barking & Dagenham v C & Others [2014] EWHC 2472 (fam) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/2472.html

London Borough of Tower Hamlets v D & Others [2014] EWHC 3901 (Fam) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/3901.html

- Representing a child separately from their children’s guardian and successfully opposing the local authority application for permission to place the child in a placement that would amount to a deprivation of liberty.

- Representing a child in an adoption application, prospective adopters having adopted the child in India.

- Representing the children through their children’s guardian in a complex non-accidental injury case, where after much medical evidence and thorough investigation the children were returned to their family.

- Representing the children through their children’s guardian in a case where one of the children had been sexually abused and there had to be careful consideration as to whether the child should give evidence in the family proceedings, with concurrent criminal proceedings.