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Jane Drew
Call 1976

AREAS OF PRACTICE
 

Children (Public and Private Law)
Ancillary Relief
Cohabitee Property Disputes
Inheritance Act and Family Provision
Financial Provision for Children

Although originally practising in personal injury, landlord & tenant and housing law as well as family work, Jane Drew has for some time specialised in the field of children's law with an emphasis on public law Children Act proceedings, in which she acts for local authorities, parents and guardians. She has particular expertise in cases involving sexual abuse, non-accidental head injury in babies and fabricated illness.  In private law children's work, she has wide experience of intractable contact disputes both as a barrister and as a Deputy District Judge.  She is committed to representing parents with mental health difficulties and those with drug or alcohol problems.

She lectures on cohabitee law and related property disputes, where her experience in the field is invaluable.

She sits as a Deputy District Judge at the Principal Registry of the Family Division.

 

REPORTED CASES
 

Re B (Adoption: Father's Objections) [1999] 2 FLR 215
Adoption - Step-parent adoption - Natural father objecting to adoption application

Re O (Minors) (Medical Examination) [1993] 1 FLR 860
Care - Family proceedings court - Justices giving direction for medical examination on making interim care order

B v Derbyshire County Council [1992] 1 FLR 538
Care proceedings - Father of little boy convicted of indecent assault on girl within family unit - Local authority applying for care orders concerning the little boy and three other girls

M v Westminster City Council
[1985] FLR 325
Care proceedings - Application on ground that children's proper development being avoidably prevented or neglected - Evidence of neglect


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