Adrienne Barnett

Practice

Adrienne practices in all areas of child law including public and private law Children Act proceedings, international child abduction and adoption. She has a particular specialism in representing parents and children in public law proceedings. Adrienne has an LLM Degree (with Distinction) in Child Law and Policy and is currently undertaking PhD research at Brunel University. She has taught family law at Brunel, and is an accredited lecturer with CLT.

Adrienne has presented papers at academic and professional conferences including the Association of Lawyers for Children annual conference (Manchester, 2007) and the International Family Bar Association conference (Cape Town, 2005). She regularly presents seminars for solicitors and has undertaken training workshops for Refuge for their Independent Domestic Violence Advocates.

Adrienne is a member of the Domestic Violence Working Group of the Family Justice Council and drafted the Response of the FJC to the government consultation paper on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls. She is also a member of the Family Law Bar Association and the Green Economics Institute.

Adrienne is actively involved in 1 Pump Court's fundraising project, which is dedicated to building a pre-school in the Eastern Cape in South Africa, and is a member of the Masikhule Project (the successor to the ANC Support Group), which also raises funds for the school.

She is trained in direct access.

Notable Cases

> Re J (Declaration of Wrongful Removal) [1999] 2 FLR 653

> Haringey London Borough Council v C (E, E, F and High Commissioner of Republic of Kenya Intervening) [2007] FLR

> SS v KS [2009]

Publications

> 'Contact and Domestic Violence: The Ideological Divide' in Bridgman, J. and Monk, D. (eds) Feminist Perspectives on Child Law (2000) London: Cavendish

> 'Getting a "Get" - The Limits of Law's Authority' (2000) Feminist Legal Studies 8: 241 - 254

> 'A Better World through Law? The implications of the theories of Niklas Luhmann for Green Economics' (2008) International Journal of Green Economics 2(4) 343 - 352

> 'The Welfare of the Child Revisited: In Whose Best Interests? Part I' (2009) 39 Family Law 50

> 'The Welfare of the Child Revisited: In Whose Best Interests? Part II' (2009) 39 Family Law 135

Other Memberships

Chambers Secretary, 1 Pump Court
Secretary of the Mzimkhulu Trust (awaiting charitable status)
Committee member of The Masikhule Project