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Joanna Geddes

Year of Call:

1992

Education:    

Clitheroe Royal Grammar School for Girls
University College London BA (Hons) German (2i)
City University Diploma in Law (Distinction)
Inns of Court School of Law (Very Competent)

Prize from Worshipful Company of Arbiters for
achievement on the Diploma course
Karmel Scholarship from Grays Inn (2 years)

Career:   

Called to the Bar 1992 by Grays Inn. 
Pupillage Queen Elizabeth Building, Temple.  Mixed family and civil pupillage under the supervision of Peter Wright, Francis Phillimore and Paul Coleridge (now Mr Justice Coleridge)
Tenant at One Garden Court, Temple 1994-1999
Sovereign Chambers (formerly 30 Park Square) 1999 to date
Member of the North Eastern Circuit
Member of the Family Law Bar Association

Appointment as Deputy District Judge

Reported cases:
Re M (Contact:Welfare Test) [1995] 1 FLR 274
Re A (Contact: Domestic Violence) [1998] 2 FLR 171
Calderdale MBC v S and the Legal Services Commission [2004] EWHC 2529 [2005] 1FLR 751
Re F (Indirect Contact) [2006] EWCA Civ 1426 [2007] 1 FLR 1015

Joanna is a specialist family and quasi-family practitioner acting for private and publicly funded clients in all levels of tribunal, particularly the County Court and High Court.

She is experienced in advising and representing unmarried partners or cohabitants in property disputes, primarily where an application is proposed or made under section 14 of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act. 

She will represent professional clients such as trustees-in-bankruptcy, discretionary or other trustees, executors or other professional or lay third parties where a need arises to defend or intervene in matrimonial proceedings. 

She welcomes instructions in applications or proposed applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act whether for claimants, beneficiaries or executors.

She will advise and act in cases involving allegations of professional negligence in the field of matrimonial or family law and/or property trusts.

Languages:    German (Rusty Fluent) and French (Basic)

For further details contact Francine Kirk on 0113 202 8605.