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Catrin John

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Catrin John

Practice Overview

Catrin practices primarily in the area of family law and is a well regarded practitioner often conducting complex cases alongside and against leading counsel.

She has predominantly been instructed to represent Local Authorities and Children’s Guardians in complex cases involving serious sexual and physical abuse of children and has earned a reputation for being well prepared and robust.

Catrin has appeared in lengthy trials on alleged non-accidental injuries and issues of parenting impaired by mental or fabricated illness; she also regularly appears in the County Court undertaking matrimonial finance cases.

She is also Instructed by Local Authorities in cases under the Mental Health Act such as the displacement of a nearest relative.
 

Appointments

  • Former Wales and Chester Circuit Junior

Memberships

  • Family Law Bar Association 

Education

  • BVC ICSL
  • LL.B Cardiff University

Notable and Reported Cases

  • Representation of local authorities in cases where FFI (Munchausen Syndrome) of mothers has been alleged
  • The case of a poisoning of a child by its mother
  • A case involving the murder of a mother by a father
  • Abuse cases where ‘cultural differences’ alleged to be relevant to the case
  • Numerous cases where children have been seriously sexually abused, including multiple rapes by a family member
  • “Shaken baby syndrome” cases where medical opinions have been divided
  • The death of children
  • A case involving alleged forced marriage
 
 
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