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| Mairin Casey
Academic background
Graduated in Law from University College Galway, National University of Ireland, in 1986. Diploma in International Law at the University of Vienna 1984. Called to the Bar in 1989. Completed pupillage at St. Mary's Chambers in 1990 and practised in general common law until 1995 and thereafter exclusively in Family Law.
Areas of expertise/interest
- Specialises in complex public and private law children proceedings particularly in serious physical and sexual abuse cases often taking in Leading Counsel.
- Represents Local Authorities, parents, Guardians, teenage children able to give their own instructions and the Official Solicitor.
- Special interest and frequent instruction in cases involving MSBP/ Factitious Illness Syndrome.
- Fully committed to continued representation of both privately and publicly funded clients alike.
Professional
- Appointed Deputy Coroner to HM Coroner for Louth and Spilsby, East Lincolnshire.
- Appointed Assistant Deputy Coroner in Nottingham 2009
- Bar representative on the President’s Interdisciplinary Family Law Committee; Bar representative on the Family Justice Council in Lincoln.
- Involved in training for experts who advise the court in family proceedings and in training programmes for CAFCASS officers in public and private law proceedings.
- Member of the Family Law Bar Association, the East Midlands Family Bar Association and the Association for East Midlands Lawyers for Children.
Recommendations
- "Has just the right blend of sensistivity and dispassion for child care cases" (Chambers Directory 2003)
- Ranked in Chambers and Partners as a Leading Family Junior in 2005 and 2006 as "appropriately forceful in examination and cross examination" and has a strong reputation for her care and children work.
- "Very thorough, good with clients and good in court" (Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2008)
- "Prepares her cases well and presents them effectively in front of judges" (Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2010
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