Marcia Hyde

Areas of Practice

Family - Children

Marcia Hyde's practice encompasses all aspects of child and family law with particular emphasis on care proceedings, in which she has considerable experience of and expertise in acting for local authorities, parents and children's guardians.

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Education 

BA (Leeds) MA Dip Law 

Cases of Note

Re P-B (Contact: Committal) [2009] EWCA Civ 143 (Fam)

Care proceedings – Contact – Penal notice attached – Whether penal notice could be attached to contact order in public law proceedings – Whether contact order under Children Act 1989, s 34 enforceable by committal
Care proceedings – Jurisdiction – County court acting as High Court judge in order to make use of powers under inherent jurisdiction – Procedure – Whether appropriate

A Local Authority v J [2008] EWHC 1484 (Fam) [2008] 2 FLR 1389

Adoption - Contact - Post-adoption contact with mother or half-siblings - Whether to be ordered
Care - Welfare - Parenting assessment - Whether failure of emotional care and failure to co-operate justified adoption - Whether post-adoption contact with family members to be ordered

Re T (A Child) [2003] EWCA Civ 455 (Fam)

Family - child abuse

Re W (Section 34(2) Orders) [2000] 1 FLR 502 (CA)

Care – Contact – Jurisdiction to prohibit local authority from permitting staying contact with natural parents