About Christine

Family

• Christine has specialized in all areas of Children Law for over 30 years. She has been recognised in the Legal 500 since 2012 as a leading junior in the field of Children Law and is recommended for her care work.
• In 2025, the Legal 500 directory reported that “Christine is client-focused and excellent with vulnerable individuals in particular. She is direct with her advocacy but also collaborative outside the courtroom and willing to look beyond the conventional to make progress” [Band 2]:
• Christine represents parents and Guardians, also Local authorities, in a wide range of public law proceedings. She regularly appears in the High Court and in protracted cases before Circuit Judges and District Judges.
• Christine has particular expertise acting in complex public law cases concerning serious sexual abuse, inflicted or non-accidental injuries (with complex medical issues); fabricated illness and perplexing presentation, addiction, cultural issues, learning disabilities, mental health issues, emotional abuse, neglect and inter-jurisdictional cases.
• Christine regularly acts in adoption proceedings and applications to discharge placement orders.
• Christine is acts in private law proceedings, in disputes in relation to child arrangements, relocation cases, international child abduction and domestic abuse.
• Christine regularly delivers lectures on the public law and participates in court liaison and Court Users Groups.

Reported Cases

• Re N Children (Revocation of placement orders) EWCA (Civ) [2023] 1352

• A v W and Others No 1 (Fact Finding) [2016] EWFC 64
• A v W and Others No 2 (Welfare) [2017] EWFC 8

Christine is married with three children. She speaks fluent Norwegian and conversational French. She enjoys tennis, skiing, travel and reading.

Christine accepts Direct Access instructions.

VAT Number 677920002