Hilary Lennox is a Family Law Barrister specialising in international human rights, child abduction, family finance, public and private children law, court of protection, and cross-jurisdictional family matters. She is regularly instructed in complex family disputes that involve multiple jurisdictions, high-value finances and human rights considerations.
Child abduction and relocation
Family finance
Advice where family law and international elements intersect
Public children law
Private children law
International human rights
Hilary specialises in both international human rights and family law. She is instructed to represent individuals before the European Court of Human Rights, most recently in cases against Ireland.
As a family law practitioner across three jurisdictions, she handles all areas of family law. In child abduction and relocation, Hilary deals with jurisdictional disputes and the issue of habitual residence. Her work in family finance includes advising on complex financial arrangements involving property assets across multiple countries.
In children law (public), she represents local authorities, parents, intervenors and others in care and placement proceedings, including in international transfer cases under Brussels II revised. In children law (private), she handles relocation, maintenance and guardianship matters. She also acts in Court of Protection cases, representing families in matters involving financial, property and welfare issues for incapacitated persons.
Hilary’s international human rights work spans both family and institutional abuse cases. She has represented victims of institutional child abuse in Ireland, and has been involved with litigation in jurisdictions beyond the UK.
She speaks French, Spanish and Irish.
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