Andrew Lorie

Call 1996
Email andrew.lorie@3pb.co.uk
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Andrew Lorie is a specialist family law practitioner with wide experience in all areas concerning children and ancillary relief.

Financial relief

Andrew acts in the full range of financial applications arising out of the breakdown of relationships between married and unmarried couples including:

• Ancillary relief under s25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
• Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
• Interlocutory applications for maintenance pending suit and s37 injunctions to prevent dissipation and to recover hidden assets
• Transfer of tenancy
• Overseas assets
• Third parties, usually in-laws, intervening in ancillary relief proceedings
• Applications for provision for children under the Children Act 1989 Schedule 1
• Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975

In addition he has written several articles for the Chambers’ Family Law Newsletter on the Civil Partnership Act 2004.

Private law

Andrew is instructed in cases involving contact, residence, prohibited steps, removal of children from the jurisdiction and financial applications for children. He has dealt with domestic violence, emotional, physical and sexual abuse allegations, and has acted in cases involving parents, the children themselves, grandparents, step-parents and transgender applicants.

Andrew has also dealt with cases with an international dimension, and wardship.

Public law

Andrw is instructed by local authorities, respondents (both parents and grandparents) and children’s guardians in public law cases. He has dealt with cases involving significant harm from neglect and failure to protect through to severe emotional abuse causing psychological damage to children, as well as cases involving serious physical (such as alleged shaken baby cases) and sexual abuse of children (level 5 on the Copine scale).

He has also been instructed in cases involving parents with mental health difficulties, including Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome (Factitious Disorder by Proxy) and paranoid schizophrenia, severe learning disability, histrionic personality disorder and schizophrenia. As well as parents who have criminal convictions for serious offences of violence, including sexual assault and murder.

Andrew has also been instructed by applicants for special guardianship orders and adoption.

Domestic violence

He is instructed by both applicants and respondents in applications for injunctions under the Family Law Act 1996 and committal proceedings. He has also dealt with associated applications for financial relief within Family Law Act proceedings.