David Boyd

Children

Mental Health

Community Care

David specialises in public and private law children cases normally representing children or parents. He has particularly extensive experience of litigation following the unlawful killing of a child or parent and Children Act cases involving serious drugs, alcohol or mental health problems. Recent work has included care proceedings arising from non-accidental head injury, fractures and other grave abuse of children; international movement of children including abduction cases and Hague Convention applications; and adoption with and without a foreign element. David also has experience of Inherent Jurisdiction cases and medical treatment, publicity and immigration issues in proceedings concerning children. David’s mental health and community care work has included representing restricted and unrestricted patients at Mental Health Review Tribunal hearings and applications to displace nearest relatives. David has also appeared in the Court of Protection.

Between 1978 and 1986 David worked at the National Youth Bureau and in the Juvenile Crime Unit at the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO).