CLIVE HEATON QC

Solicitor 1982
Call 1992     Gray’s Inn
Queen’s Counsel 2006

Family and Private Client

MA (Oxon)

clive@cliveheatonqc.co.uk.> ‘Very effective and a tough advocate’
– Chambers UK, 2008

Appointments

Recorder 2002
Deputy District Judge 1999 - 2006

Associated Chambers

Zenith Chambers, 10 Park Square, Leeds, LS1 2LH
Tel: 0113 245 5438

Coram Chambers, 9-11 Fulwood Place, London, WC1V 6HG


Education

Keble College, Oxford (MA Modern History)


Areas of Practice

Specialises in children’s work, including :
- sexual, physical and emotional abuse of children and cases of neglect
- cases involving contested expert (especially medical) evidence
- Declaratory Relief in the High Court (including work involving mentally disadvantaged adults)
- work with an international dimension, including adoption and abduction
- family matters with Human Rights and Administrative Law issues, including Judicial Review

Professional Associations

Family Law Bar Association
Association of Lawyers for Children
British Association for Adoption and Fostering
Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association

Reported Cases

Re B (Allegation of sexual abuse; child’s evidence) CA
Re A CA
Re M and J (Wardship)
Re C (Disclosure of findings in care proceedings)
Re A and D (Leading decision of the President of the Family Division relating to head injuries to babies)

Publication

Co-author ‘Adoption: The Modern Procedure’, Jordans 2006