Jane Hoyal

Practice

Practice Qualifications: Called to the Bar - 1976 (Middle Temple), LLB (HONS) Law - 1974 (London School of Economics), MA Criminology - 1975 (KEELE), Certificate of Qualification as a family law, all issues, Mediator - 1998. Called to the Gibraltar Bar in 2005.

Jane specialises in family law, particularly relating to children. Abduction, Alleged Abuse, Adoption, Care, Contact, Human Rights and Residence. She has been instructed on behalf of children and family members in many complex, grave and lengthy proceedings in public and private law. Her instructing solicitors include UNISON, NSPCC, Colin Dearmer, Sarah Harman (Harman & Harman), Susan Eskinazi and Michelle Grant (Eskinazi & Co.), Mary Osbaldeston and Caroline Cooper (S.A. Carr & Co.), Ian Hollis (Moss & Coleman), Lina Chauhan (Vickers & Co.), Sara Lerner and Lib Skinner (Hereward & Foster), Nicola Harries (Raggett Tiffen and Harries), McMillan Hamilton, Trethowans, Marrache & Co (Gibraltar).

Notable Cases

> R v The United Kingdom Government [1988] 2 F.L.R. 445.

> R v Woodgreen Crown Court ex parte P [1983] 1 F.L.R. 206.

> Re. J (a minor) (Care Order : Wardship) [1984] F.L.R. 43.

> Re. BA (Wardship and Adoption) [1985] F.L.R. 1008.

> M v Westminster C.C. [1985] F.L.R. 325.

> R v Salisbury and Tisbury and Mere Combined J.C. ex parte B [1986] F.L.R. 1.

> Re F (minors) (denial of contact) [1993] 2 F.L.R. 667.

> Re P (minors) (contact with Children in care) [1993] 2 F.L.R. 156.

> Re D (a minor) (Care or Supervision order) [1993] 2 F.L.R. 423.

> R v L.B. Brent ex parte S. [1994] 1 F.L.R. 203.

> R v L.B. Barnet ex parte B [1994] 1 F.L.R. 592.

> Re W (minors) (Removal from Jurisdiction) [1994] 1 F.L.R. 842.

> Re H (a minor) (Adoption Proceedings) [1994] 2 F.L.R. 437.

> Re W (Wardship : discharge : publicity) [1995] 2 F.L.R. 466.

> Re E (Parental responsibility : Blood tests) [1995] 1 F.L.R. 392.

> Re M (Care : Contact : Grandmother's Application) [1995] 2 F.L.R. 81.

> Re C (a minor) : Grandfather’s application [1997] Fam. Law 456.

> Re D (Abduction : Acquiescence) [1998] 1 F.L.R. 688.

> Re D (Abduction : Acquiescence) [1998] 2 F.L.R. 335.

> Re. T, R and W (children) (adoption :expert evidence)[2001] 1 F.L.R. 130.

> Re. F; F v Lambeth LBC (care planning – drifting – public interest in awareness of facts) [2002] 1 F.L.R. 217.

> Re. B (Interim Care Order: Directions) [2002] F.L.R.

> Re. O (Care Proceedings: Evidence) Re. [2003] EWHC 2011 (Fam) [2004] 1 FLR 161.

> Norfolk County Council v Webster and others [2006] EWHC 2898 (Fam) [2007] 2 FLR 405.

> Haringey LBC v S [2006] EWHC 2001 (Fam) [2007] 1 FLR 161.

> Webster v Norfolk County Council and the children (by their children’s Guardian) [2009] 1 FLR 1378.

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association; Family Rights Group; Association of Lawyers for Children; Commonwealth Lawyers Association; International Bar Association Amnesty International; Justice.

Additional Information

Jane co-founded what is now 1 Pump Court Chambers in 1978.

Jane is a patron of the Children's Legal Centre and the Bar Committee on the Rights of the Child. She is a Vice-President of the Association of Women Barristers (AWB) and was the Chairperson of the Trustees of PAIN (Parents Against Injustice) between 1995 and 1998.

Jane was appointed a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunals in 1977 aged 24 years as a consequence of her Free Representation Unit expertise in assisting appellants. After 14 years service she retired in 1991 due to other commitments.

Jane has volunteered as an advice worker at various Law Centres and community projects since 1971. She has provided free advice and representation in special cases of hardship involving injustice throughout her career. She has appeared in some successful test cases including at the full European Court of Human Rights in 1986 (R v The U. K. Government [1988] 2 F.L.R. 445). She successfully represented a parent in a family rights / public law case against the U.K. government.

In 2001/02 she led Michael Paget as Counsel for Lisa Arthurworrey, Social Worker, instructed by U.N.I.S.O.N., at the national Public Inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié.

She speaks at and chairs national conferences. She chaired the National Conference on Domestic Violence and Children which produced the report "A Cry in the Dark", available from Newham Social Services Domestic Violence Unit. She writes articles and reviews for various publications, including Family Law, Representing Children, the Association of Lawyers for Children Newsletter, Legal Action, IBA newsletter, AWB newsletter, and Childright. She has advised the media and appeared in some T.V. and radio documentaries. She writes legal submissions in respect of Family Law related issues and responds to Government consultation papers.

Specialisms

Care Proceedings
Adoption
Child Abduction
Divorce/Nullity
Domestic violence
Private Law