RHIANNON DAVIES LL.B. BARRISTER

Called to the Bar: 2001

Areas of Practice

• Children Children Act 1989 - Private Law
  Experienced in all levels of private law children work acting for parents and grandparents, including residence and contact disputes under section 8 of the Children Act 1989 with particular experience in contact disputes involving domestic violence or implacable hostility. Also accepts instructions to act for Guardians under rule 9.5.
• Children Act 1989 - Public Law
  Regularly accepts instructions from both Local Authorities and Respondents (whether parents, grandparents and extended family or the Guardian) at all levels in public law children work, including applications for care and supervision orders, special guardianship and secure accommodation orders.
• Financial Relief
  Experienced in ancillary relief, including final hearings. Also accepts instructions in applications by cohabitees under TLATA 1996 s14, for financial provision for children under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 together with CSA and maintenance pending suit matters.
• Domestic Violence and Injunctions
  Regularly accepts instructions from both Applicants and Respondents in applications under the Family Law Act 1996 for non molestation and occupation orders and committals. Also accepts instructions in applications under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. 
• General Civil
  Undertakes work on a regular basis within the general civil field, including negligence, personal injury, breach of contract and landlord and tenant.

Published Articles

• In Practice: The Protocol: Management and Monitoring of Delay - Fam Law 37 (537) (Co-written with Fayyaz Afzal)
• NYAS: The Voice and Ears of the Child - Fam Law 37 (1095)
• Section 91(14) Orders - An Update, published on Family Law Week

Reported Cases

• RK v BK and R (By His Guardian, Instructed by NYAS) 18^th May 2007 reported on Family Law Week and summarized in Family Law Newswatch, concerning protracted litigation over contact to a child, culminating in a s91(14) for the duration of the child's minority.
  
  

Postgraduate Academic Studies

• In addition to her full time practice, she is currently undertaking an LLM in Child Law through the distance learning programme at the University of Northumbria.  This will cover topics including the foundations of child law, confidentiality and consent together with the elective modules of education law, child protection, children and criminal law and a research project to a maximum of 20,000 words.

Awards

• Uthwatt Award 2000
• Mould Scholarship 2002
• Grays Inn Senior Award 2002

Presentations \ Specialist Conferences Attended

• Child Care Protocol - Is it protecting our children?
• Child Care Protocol Forum
• Substance Abuse - Familial Abuse: Working together to reduce Delay and Prevent Harm
• Non-Payment Possession Claims (Delivered by District Judge Paul Atkinson)
• Education Appeals
• Introduction to Employment Tribunals
• "The Risk Fallacy - A Tale of Two Thresholds", Lecture given on behalf of NYAS by Mr Justice Ryder, Family Division Liaison Judge for the Northern Circuit on 8^th November 2007
  

CPD Presentations Delivered

• The Domestic Violence and Victims of Crime Act 2004
• Preparing Articles and Judgments for Publication
  
  

Languages

• Basic French

Associations

• Family Bar Association
• Gray's Inn
• Midland Circuit
• Member of the Bar Council's "Speakers for Schools" initiative

Interests

Aside from enjoying a good book, she enjoys hiking, off road driving, backgammon, motorcycling and geocaching.

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