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    Hannah Perry

    All People Partner – Joint Head of Family

    About Hannah

    Hannah joined TV Edwards in 2012 and has been Head of the Children and Domestic Abuse team and Joint Head of the Family department since October 2019. She has 15years’ experience working with clients in both public and private law children cases, as well as those involving domestic abuse and forced marriage.

    “Emerging as someone who is central in the world of family law. She puts a huge amount of work in for her clients and she has a collaborative approach with everyone she works with.”

    – Chambers and Partners independent directory

    She regularly acts for children, parents and other family members in complex care cases where children have suffered non accidental injuries, serious physical or sexual abuse, deprivation of liberty cases, and those with international issues requiring transfer of proceedings between jurisdictions. Hannah has experience in advising and representing prospective adopters and children through their children’s guardian on adoption procedures within England and Wales and also in relation to Intercountry adoptions. Hannah undertakes her own advocacy at all levels.

    Notable cases

    • Hannah acted pro bono for the Association of Lawyers for Children in the case of Griffiths v Tickle [2021] EWCA Civ 1882 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2021/1882.html, which was shortlisted as a case of the year at the LexisNexis UK Family Law Awards 2022 https://www.familylawawards.com/ehome/familylawawards2022/finalists/
    • P-S (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 1407 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/1407.html
    • London Borough of Barking & Dagenham v C & Others [2014] EWHC 2472 (fam) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/2472.html
    • London Borough of Tower Hamlets v D & Others [2014] EWHC 3901 (Fam) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2014/3901.html
    • Representing a child separately from their children’s guardian and successfully opposing the local authority application for permission to place the child in a placement that would amount to a deprivation of liberty.
    • Representing a child in an adoption application, prospective adopters having adopted the child in India.
    • Representing the children through their children’s guardian in a complex non-accidental injury case, where after much medical evidence and thorough investigation the children were returned to their family.
    • Representing the children through their children’s guardian in a case where one of the children had been sexually abused and there had to be careful consideration as to whether the child should give evidence in the family proceedings, with concurrent criminal proceedings.

    Panel memberships

    • Hannah is a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel.

    Memberships

    • Member of the Association of Lawyers for Children.
    • Resolution

    Committee Memberships

    • Former Co-Chair of the Association of Lawyers for Children (November 2019-November 2022).
    • Former Solicitor member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee (2014-Autumn 2019).
    • Member of Resolution’s Legal Aid Committee.

    Accreditations

    • Hannah is a Resolution accredited specialist in domestic abuse and children law (private) cases.

    Publications

    • Contributor to Resolution Guides to Good practice and Review magazine and to the Association of Lawyer’s for Children Newsletter.
    • Introducing the Association of Lawyers for Children

    Recommendations

    “Hannah Perry leads the firm’s children and domestic abuse team and is recognised for her experience in public law issues. She frequently acts for children in care proceedings involving human rights and abuse issues. She is also praised for her representation of parents and guardians.”


    “She’s got an encyclopaedic knowledge of the work, not just of the case law but the practicalities of what her clients need.”


    “Hannah works incredibly hard and doesn’t shy away from giving bad news as well as good. She is very sensible in the way she strategically runs cases.”


    “She is organised and gives good advice. She is always responsive and never needs to be chased.”


    “She’s very sensible, practical and hard-working.”

    Chambers & Partners Directory, 2023

    “The current team is upholding the legacy of quality at TVE. A firm with a solid reputation and fee-earners who are carrying the brand. Deborah Piccos, Claire Longland and Hannah Perry. All work to a high standard and are excellent in their manner with clients.” “‘They are very experienced in public law children cases and conduct them skilfully, thoughtfully and with imagination.”

    Legal 500, 2023

    “She has excellent knowledge and very good tactics. “

    “She is emerging as someone who is central in the world of family law. She puts a huge amount of work in for her clients and she has a collaborative approach with everyone she works with.”

    – Chambers and Partners Directory, 2021

    “Joint head of department Hannah Perry frequently acts for children in care proceedings involving human rights and abuse issues.”

    “I’m always staggered by her level of detail”.

    “She reads absolutely everything, analyses it and presents it in a way that is entirely sensible, and she’s hugely empathetic.”

    – Chambers and Partners Directory, 2020

    “Every solicitor I have worked with has been excellent. A very high standard of service: prompt, efficient, friendly, excellent and clear legal advice, proactive, and takes a lead with other parties. Hannah Perry and Deborah Piccos are particularly exceptional and go the extra mile.”

    “Hannah Perry is super efficient. She is very quick to respond and fearless in her pursuit of her client’s case”

    “Hannah Perry is a thorough professional who provides legal advice that enables you to give informed instructions”

    – Legal 500, 2021

    “Hannah’s extensive knowledge and tireless dedication to every public and private law children matter she deals with is admirable. More often than not Hannah goes above and beyond the call of duty to achieve the best results for her clients even in the most difficult circumstances. I cannot recommend her highly enough.”

    – Client

    “Hannah has a reputation for always going the extra mile for her client, whether for a parent or for a child. She is always meticulously prepared and has the facts of every case at her finger tips. She has the knack of being liked and respected by her opponents as well as her clients and I would recommend her without hesitation.”

    – Client
    The Legal 500 – The Clients Guide to Law Firms

    Meet Hannah's Team:

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    Areas of Practice

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    Hannah's Recent Articles

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    TV Edwards Solicitor Deborah Piccos is a finalist in the 2022 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards – Family Law

    7th June 2022
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    Domestic Abuse: Fact Findings and Dispute Resolution in Children Proceedings – K v K Appeal Judgement 2022

    7th June 2022
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    Supreme Court decides how and when local authorities can accommodate children without a court order

    7th August 2019
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    Case of P-S (Children) [2018] EWCA Civ 1407

    21st June 2019
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    Consenting to Care

    26th March 2019
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