Hayley Griffiths specialises in all aspects of Public and Private Child Law acting for Local Authorities, parents, grandparents and Guardians. Areas of expertise include:

• Child Care:all aspects
• Emergency Protection Orders
• Secure Accommodation Orders
• Care Order/discharge applications
• Section 38(6) assessments
• Adoption
• Private residence and contact disputes
• Domestic Violence

Reported cases

Re G (Adoption: Freeing Order) [1997] AC 613, House of Lords. Application to revoke a Freeing Order

Re B (Psychiatric Therapy for Parents ) [1999] 1 FLR 701, Court of Appeal. Assessment of the parents did not fall within the ambit of CA 1989 s. 38(6)

Recent Cases

2002 Re L Non-accidental Injuries to a child, Unknown perpetrator. Assessment of the mother at Hospital.

2002 Re H Application by mother to remove child from the jurisdiction to South Africa

2004 Re C Non-accidental fracture case. Successful rehabilitation after Resolutions Programme implemented.

2005 Re L Case involving self-harming teenager

2005 Re D Secure Order application involving an eleven year old

2005 Re S Finding of fact hearing in relation to serious allegations of sexual abuse

2005 Re W Application by a sibling to a child in care

2005 Re H Apportionment of the cost of a s38(6) residential assessment at the Cassel Hospital

Professional bodies

Family Law Bar Association
Wessex Family Bar Association
Representative of the FLBA on the Bournemouth
Family Justice Council
Western Circuit