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Ancillary Relief and Children
Laura Harris has
specialised in family work for the last
twenty-five years. While she is instructed
in a wide range of family matters, she has a
particular interest in ancillary relief work and
public and private law children cases.
In the ancillary relief
field, she
regularly appears in high net worth cases and has considerable experience of dealing with
cases in which there are allegations of serious
non-disclosure. She has also acquired
expertise in pension matters and cases involving
issues of bankruptcy law.
In her care work, Laura
acts principally for parents and guardians and
has expertise in serious non-accidental injury
cases and other cases with a complex medical or
psychiatric content.
Laura has sat since 1990
as a Deputy District Judge at the Principal
Registry of the Family Division and, in that
capacity, frequently deals with financial
dispute resolution hearings involving
substantial resources as well as the full range
of ancillary relief hearings. She also
sits as a Recorder in both private and public
law family cases in the County Court.
Among Laura's recent cases
of interest is Mubarak v Mubarik, in which she
successfully argued that a husband in wilful
default of a lump sum order could be required to
submit to terms, including payment of the wife's
future costs, as a condition of his
participation in the substantive hearing.
Laura is a great believer
in a multi-disciplinary approach when the case
calls for it and enjoys working with forensic
accountants and other experts.
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