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Denise Marson

Year of Call:

1990

Education:

Wilmslow Comprehensive School, Wilmslow, Cheshire.
Sheffield University, LLB Class 2:1
Inns of Court School of Law, London.
Awarded a Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple 1989.

Career:

Recorder 2009 Civil and Family.

Called to the Bar 1990, Inner Temple.
Pupillage at Sovereign Chambers 1990-1991 supervised by Louise Godfrey QC and HH Judge Stephen Gullick, Recorder of Bradford.
Member of the North Eastern Circuit.
Member of the Family Law Bar Association.

Profile:

Denise’s practice is entirely in Family Law, specifically relating to children, and violence within family relationships. She has extensive experience of conducting proceedings under the Children Act 1989, Placement Order and Adoption proceedings, domestic violence and proceedings under the Family Law Act 1996, and applications to remove children from the jurisdiction.

Denise regularly conducts public law cases on behalf of Local Authorities, respondent parents, and children through their Guardian. Denise is frequently instructed by the Official Solicitor to represent adults who by reason of mental impairment are unable to understand the proceedings or give direct instructions. She also has extensive experience of representing parents who have a learning disability but who do not require assistance from the Official Solicitor.

Denise supports her local community by sitting as a Panel Member on the School Appeals Panel which hears appeals against school allocation involving Education Leeds.

For further details contact Claude Cooper on 0113 245 1841.