Danielle Lewis

Ancillary Relief

Danielle Lewis undertakes both private and public law child care work and ancillary relief. She appears in all forums from the Family Proceedings Courts to the High Court. In public law cases she is instructed by local authorities, parents and guardians, such cases including those involving serious physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse and factitious illness disorder. In private law cases she represents applicants and respondents across the full range of child-related issues, including residence and contact disputes, removal from the jurisdiction and family law injunctions. She also represents applicants and respondents in ancillary relief cases and Children Act Schedule 1 applications.

Danielle has appeared recently in cases involving: applications for Care Orders: EPOs, contested ICOs, contact hearings, threshold hearings, final hearings; applications for discharge of Care Orders; adoption; parents with addictions to drug and alcohol; removal from the jurisdiction both in the short term and permanently; implacably hostile parents; clients with psychiatric and psychological problems;
residence and contact applications involving allegations of significant harm; domestic violence from initial injunctive / emergency intervention through to contested proceedings in respect of the children; and ancillary relief proceedings at all stages from written advice through to final hearing.

Before coming to the Bar, Danielle worked as an investigation officer for the Parliamentary
Ombudsman for the Health Service.

Danielle is a trained mediator.

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Education 

LLB (London School of Economics)

Languages Spoken

Working knowledge of Germany