Claire Jakens F.R.S.A. Inn & Year of Call: Middle Temple 1988     Qualifications: BA (Hons), M.Phil, Dip Law, Bar.     Member of: F.L.B.A. Association of Women Judges Bar Human Rights Committee South Eastern Circuit   Area of Practice:   Family Law: Predominantly Public Law, mainly at County Court and High Court level, and also on appeal including the in Court of Appeal, representing the Local Authority, parents, children through their Guardians, the extended family and older separately represented children. All categories of cases including child death, neglect, non-accidental injury, complex medical cases, sexual abuse, domestic violence, addiction and mental health and learning disability issues, factitious illness and cases with international and multicultural dimensions. Placement applications. Adoption Private Law, predominantly cases relating to children; applications by the extended family, representation of children through their Guardian and older separately represented children. Cases with international and multicultural dimensions. Applications to remove children permanently from the jurisdiction. Special Guardianship. Emergency applications including cases against publicity, seek and find orders and injunctive relief. Declaration of paternity Cases under the inherent jurisdiction; International Child Abduction cases including non-convention abduction. Financial Cases: ancillary relief; applications under the Children Act 1989 and TLATA 1996. Inheritance Act 1975. The list is not exhaustive. I have very comprehensive experience in a wide variety of complex and occasionally novel cases. I have frequently been lead and have a strong record as junior counsel in serious and complex cases.   Additional Information:   Appointed Recorder 2005, sitting in crime and family. Fluent Italian and Spanish. Competent French. Some reported cases T v S (Financial Provision for Children) [1994] 2 FLR 883 Re L (Care:Confidentiality) [1999] 1 FLR 24. I also represented the party as junior Counsel who faced charges of murder and child cruelty in the Crown Court Re D (Abduction: Discretionary Return) [2000] 1 FLR 24 Re W (Contact: Joining a Child as a Party) [2003] 1 FLR 681 Re O (Contact: Withdrawal of Application) [2004] 1 FLR 1258 I was lead in the case of Re G (Interim Care Order: Residential Assessment) [2006] 1 FLR 601 in relation to the first child who died, in the “first round” of proceedings. A Local Authority v E [2007] EWCH 2396 (Fam) Mental Capacity: Inherent Jurisdiction. Family Division: Sir Mark Potter,P; 19th October 2007. 2008 FLR ( Forthcoming).   Email Address:   cj@westgate-chambers.co.uk