Hayley Griffiths

Call 1990
Email hayley.griffiths@3pb.co.uk
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Hayley is recommended by the Legal 500 Directory 2011 who wrote "clients brief Hayley Griffiths in ‘even the most complex childcare cases’".

Hayley Griffiths specialises in all aspects of Public and Private Child Law acting for Local Authorities, parents, grandparents and Guardians. Areas of expertise include:

• Child Care: all aspects
• Emergency Protection Orders
• Secure Accommodation Orders
• Care Order/discharge applications
• Section 38(6) assessments
• Adoption
• Private residence and contact disputes
• Domestic Violence

Notable Cases

Re B (Psychiatric Therapy for Parents ) [1999] 1 FLR 701, Court of Appeal.
Assessment of the parents did not fall within the ambit of CA 1989 s. 38(6)

Re C 2004
Non-accidental fracture case. Successful rehabilitation after Resolutions Programme implemented.

Re D 2005
Secure Order application involving an eleven year old

Re G (Adoption: Freeing Order) [1997] AC 613, House of Lords.
Application to revoke a Freeing Order

Re H 2002
Application by mother to remove child from the jurisdiction to South Africa

Re H 2005
Apportionment of the cost of a s38(6) residential assessment at the Cassel Hospital

Re L 2002
Non-accidental Injuries to a child, Unknown perpetrator. Assessment of the mother at Hospital.

Re L 2005
Case involving self-harming teenager

Re S 2005
Finding of fact hearing in relation to serious allegations of sexual abuse

Re W 2005
Application by a sibling to a child in care