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Family -
Children (Public and Private), Adoption and Human
Rights Act
Civil -
Mental Health, Community Care, Administrative Law
and Human Rights Act
Deirdre
Fottrell practises primarily in the field of
family law. She acts for parents, local
authorities and guardians in public and private
law Children Act and adoption matters. She
has particular expertise in the Human Rights Act
and she regularly advises and acts for parties in
the Administrative Court in cases which involve
judicial review applications arising from the
Children Act 1989. She also acts in child
abduction matters and cases involving
jurisdictional issues under Brussels II A.
In
addition, Deirdre has a general civil practice and
acts for claimants and defendants in community
care, mental health, adult incapacity and judicial
review matters. Within those areas, her
particular expertise is on the Human Rights Act
1998.
Before
coming to the Bar, Deirdre worked as a university
lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies
and at the University of London and the University
of Essex. In 2002 and 2004 she was a visiting
lecturer at the Center for Human Rights at
Columbia University in New York.
She is a member
of the Human Rights Centre at the University of
Essex and continues to be a member of the law
faculty, where she teaches International Child Law,
Human Rights of Women and European Human Rights.
She has edited two books and published numbers
academic articles on human rights, child law and
discrimination issues generally. She contributed
the chapter on “The Rights of Children and
Young People” in the Liberty publication
Your Rights, in 2005. She is a contributor to
the Sweet & Maxwell looseleaf, Human Rights
Practice, edited by Simor and Emmerson. In
addition she provides training and speaks
regularly on topics falling within her areas of
expertise.
She has
acted as a consultant to the Council of Europe and
the AIRE Centre and has conducted training on the ECHR
in Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey, Bosnia,
Macedonia, Georgia and Armenia. She has also
participated in training for the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office and provided expert advice to
the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights,
the British Institute of Human Rights, Minority
Rights Group, Interights, Liberty and other NGOs.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the
Human Rights Lawyers Association. In 2006 she was
recognised by the Association of Lawyers for
Children as ‘The Outstanding Newcomer in the Field
of Child Law’.
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