Overview
Rebecca accepts instructions in all areas of family law.
Rebecca is dedicated to providing excellent client care and support to those navigating proceedings for protective injunctions, child arrangements and financial remedies. She has appeared at the High Court Family Division in relation to international family matters and forced marriage protection orders.
Prior to pupillage, Rebecca trained as a Family Court Legal Adviser with the Ministry of Justice. She advised Magistrates in court on legal practice and procedure and ensured the effective management of hearings, working closely with all court users including local authorities, CAFCASS and litigants in person. Rebecca has extensive courtroom experience in both private and public children proceedings, fact-finding hearings and non-molestation orders.
During her time at the University of Bristol, Rebecca volunteered with the Legal Advocacy and Support Project at the Bristol Law Centre, running disability and sickness benefits appeals to the First-tier Tribunal.
Family & Children
Rebecca accepts Family instructions in appropriate cases.
International Family
Rebecca accepts instructions in international family cases. She has appeared in international child abduction cases involving Hong Kong and Spain, and applications for Forced Marriage Protection Orders where the children have been removed to Afghanistan.
Education
- BPP University, BPTC - Very Competent
- University of Bristol, MA Law - Merit
- King’s College London, BA History - 2:1
Scholarships
- BPP University BPTC Advocacy Scholar
Articles
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law - ‘The influence of the bereaved in the scope of the contemporary inquest’, 2023, Volume 45, Issue 4.
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law - ‘Closing routes to universal credit for young disabled students’, 2023, Volume 45, Issue 2.
Professional Memberships
- The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
- Family Law Bar Association
Cases of Note
Re Z (A Child) (Retention from Hong Kong: Child’s Objections) [2026] EWHC 996 (Fam)
Successfully acted pro-bono for the respondent Grandmother defending proceedings under the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction before Harrison J. The court dismissed the mother’s application for return on the strength of the child’s objections.
