Legal Director

Caroline is Family Rights Group’s Legal Director and part of the charity’s senior leadership team. She was called to the Bar in 2003 and has specialised in children public law for 20 years.

Caroline takes a leading role in the charity’s work in influencing and developing reform proposals regarding child welfare law, policy and the family justice system. She supports the charity to develop and achieve its strategic goals and is responsible for the charity’s strategic use of the law. She heads up the charity’s award-winning legal team whose work underpins all of Family Rights Group’s public legal education, advice, law and policy reform and influencing activity.

Before joining Family Rights Group, Caroline practised at the independent bar and then as an in-house advocate in a busy London local authority. Caroline has advised and represented families, children and local authorities in a range of complex public law proceedings. She remains a door tenant at Dere Street Chambers.

Caroline brings both legal and social research experience to the charity’s project work, contributing to the design and delivery of action research, inquiries and reviews. She has a keen interest in childhood, family, children’s rights and system change.