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Shona Rogers
 | Call: 1998 Practice Areas
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- Practicing in Nottingham/Midlands Circuit since 1999
- Mixed common law pupillage, predominantly crime and family
- Practicing exclusively in family law (private and public law, non-ancillary relief) since 2002
- Key skills: client care and management, thorough preparation, cross-examination skills
Private Law Experience:
- Representing parents, vulnerable adults, children (separately represented and via rule 9.5 GAL)
- Contact and residence disputes from Family Proceedings Court to High Court
- Representing a child in an application by a father to the Court of Appeal. Issues considered in the case were:
- Whether the 14 year old child had sufficient emotional and intellectual capacity to instruct own solicitor independently of her rule 9.5 Guardian ad Litem
- Whether CAFCASS or NYAS were the appropriate representatives for the child within the proceedings
- The age at which a child’s wishes and feelings should be regarded as significant or determinative of an application for contact
- Complex finding of fact hearings within contact/residence proceedings, including allegations of serious domestic violence, non accidental injury, sexual abuse, rape and internet child pornography (quasi care proceedings).
- Applications for leave to remove from the jurisdiction with associated Hague Convention Proceedings (County Court and High Court). Associated jurisdictions: France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada.
- Injunctive proceedings- occupation/non-molestation between adults and relatives
- Specific issue- vaccination, names, education and home education
General/Other Experience:
- Public law proceedings- Family Proceedings Court to High Court
- Representing parents, children, local authorities, Official Solicitor, Interveners
- Appeal proceedings in High Court and Court of Appeal
- Assisting UK in ongoing ECHR proceedings relating to the role of the OS
- Judicial Review
- Claims for breach of Human Rights (A6 and A8)
- Provision of support/local authority duties to vulnerable adults, parents and children
- Complex disclosure issues- p.i.i applications
- Restraining/managing publicity- contra mundum injunctions
- Factual issues ranging from severe physical abuse, murder of parent, death of infant, sexual abuse (rape, internet pornography, paedophile ring)
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