Anne Spratling

Call Year: 1980

Areas of Practice

Public and private law children
International adoptions
Child abduction

Vulnerable adults

Memberships

Association of Lawyers for Children

FLBA

Judicial and other appointment or relevant activities

Judge sitting in the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Tribunal, since 1999

Relevant training or teaching

Trained bar students in professional ethics for the BVC.

Particular Practice Interests
Sexual abuse,
non-accidental injury, representing children by R9.5 guardians in private law disputes.

Cases of interest since 1999

High Court case representing a child abducted twice by her mother from Serbia. Issues of international abduction, residence, and extreme parental hostility.
High Court case involving a conflict of evidence between forensic pathologists and neuro-surgeons about the cause of a baby’s death.
Represented the surviving siblings of Baby P
High Court case representing the maternal grandmother, who was the only surviving maternal relative of a boy whose mother had been murdered by his father. The case involved complex cultural issues as the mother was white British and the father was from a Sikh family.

Relevant background

Was a teacher in secondary school.