Family

Kate Burnell is a specialist family law practitioner and her work includes all areas of family law including children cases, financial cases and injunction proceedings.

Kate has extensive experience of dealing with financial cases across a broad spectrum of financial circumstances. She has experience of dealing with cases where there are significant assets. She has also experience in cases involving consideration of pensions, businesses, accounts and cases where financial injunction applications are involved.

In addition to representing clients in court, Kate has experience of advising both prior to and during proceedings both in writing and in conference. She is regularly instructed to advise upon terms of settlement and offers.

Kate has lectured for a number of organisations on children issues. She was been actively involved in the training of junior members of the profession for a number of years as a part-time tutor on the bar vocational course and lecturing to pupils. She has a keen interest in the development of the law and regularly attends conferences both nationally and internationally. Kate is actively involved in a number of family law organisations and is a member of the committee of a number of such organisations.

She has extensive experience in the full range of children proceedings including public law applications, private law applications and adoption cases. She regularly acts for local authorities in public law cases, representing local authorities in proceedings and advising prior to and during proceedings. Kate also has considerable experience representing parents and other family members in both public law and private law cases and representing children both directly and through their Guardians. Kate has a particular interest in cases involving medical issues.

Within the private law sphere Kate’s practice encompasses all types of private law applications including applications for leave to remove from the jurisdiction, applications for change of name and applications relating to choice of school. Kate has also advised on enforcement of private law orders in cases involving the United States. She also has experience of abduction cases.
Kate’s work also includes all types of personal protective injunctive relief applications and committal and enforcement proceedings.
Kate has lectured for a number of organisations on children issues. She was been actively involved in the training of junior members of the profession for a number of years as a part-time tutor on the bar vocational course and lecturing to pupils. She has a keen interest in the development of the law and regularly attends conferences both nationally and internationally. Kate is actively involved in a number of family law organisations and is a member of the committee of a number of such organisations.

Kate’s work also includes all types of personal protective injunctive relief applications and committal and enforcement proceedings.

In addition to representing parties within TLATA proceedings, Kate regularly advises prior to the issue of proceedings, she is also involved in drafting pleadings and as well as advising Claimants and Defendants during the course of litigation. Her experience within this area covers a wide range of financial circumstances. She is also experienced in dealing with and advising in relation to financial applications for the benefit of children under the Children Act, such issues regularly arising and requiring consideration alongside cohabitation disputes.

Relevant Memberships:
FLBA
Child Concern
Merseyside Medico-Legal Society
Northern Circuit Medical Law Association
Association of Lawyers for Children
American Bar Association and New York State Bar Association