Hafsah Hussain and the PSQB Pupillage Committee hosted the second annual informal pupillage insight evening for students and graduates on Wednesday 6th December 2023

Emily Reed and Shannon Woodley, members of the PSQB Pupillage Committee, alongside recent tenants Hafsah Hussain and Mollie Briggs, attended The University of Law Leeds Careers Fair on Wednesday 8th November 2023,

The article primarily considers reported cases in the Court of Protection relating to anorexia sufferers, in the context of the diagnostic aspect of capacity assessments. It considers how a diagnosis, or lack thereof, relates to the functional test for capacity, and the nature of treatment a person might receive. This article was published in the […]

Park Square Barristers are hosting a panel event in Leeds to discuss recent legal developments in the Court of Protection and raise awareness of the current issues and debates in the field. We hope to cover a variety of topics relevant to CoP practitioners, including balancing the privacy of P and open justice in the […]

Applications to deprive a child of their liberty can be made under s.25 Children Act 1989.  However, there are a large number of children for whom placement under this provision is not appropriate, either because the statutory criteria is not met or because their welfare needs require therapeutic input which can’t be delivered in a […]

I will be delivering a seminar on 6 July looking at the law with respect to how lies should be approached in finding of fact hearings, and considering the recent Court of Appeal authority of Re A, B and C (Children) [2021] EWCA Civ 451.

We are delighted to welcome Emily Reed back from maternity leave.

This week we have been delighted to host an exhibition to commemorate and celebrate the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 which paved the way for women to practice in law for the first time.

Emily Reed and Anaum Riaz will be presenting the seminar in Chambers on 14th May 2019.

Part of our family team’s seminar programme. Emily Reed and Anaum Riaz will be presenting a seminar on Private Children Law.

In the 2014 case Re R (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 1625, the president emphasised that ‘sloppy practice, both by social workers and in the courts in the application of the law, must stop…’ and that there is ‘recurrent inadequacy of the analysis and reasoning put forward in support of the case for adoption’.