Members of Chambers

Call: 1990

Miss Symms is a specialist practictioner in family law and has extensive experience in appearing in complex matters relating to all aspects of family breakdown. In Children Act cases she acts in public law for Local Authorities, Guardians and Parents (including those assisted by the Official Solicitor) in the most serious cases, and is especially used to dealing with cases involving abduction and complex psychological and psychiatric evidence.

In private law cases she has dealt with the full range of cases and as been instructed in a number of cases with an international element, appearing both for parents wishing to remove their children from the jurisdiction and those opposing such applications. Miss Symms has experience of cases involving international child abduction and the operation of the Hague Convention.

Miss Symms also practices extensively  in the field of ancillary relief, acting in cases involving large claims. She has regularly appeared in cases involving school fees claims, pension division and inheritance claims and also advises in cases brought under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996.

Miss Symms is authorised to undertake Public Access work and appears on the Bar Council Public Access Register

Family Practice:

• Private Law Child Cases
• Public Law Child Cases
• Financial Applications