Holly Cross

Call 2019

Overview

Holly qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and has practised in family law continuously since.

In private practice she was a partner in a prominent East Midlands practice.  Holly has also worked in house for two local authorities.

Her experience of family law is wide and varied.  It covers the law relating to children including all types of Children Act applications, adoption cases, divorce, and financial remedies on relationship breakdown.

Holly was a member of the Law Society Children Panel / accredited specialist in the law relating to children from 2003 and has represented many children in public law cases.

She has also completed the Family Law Bar Association’s vulnerable witness training and has experience both representing and cross-examining vulnerable witnesses and parties.

Holly moved from the solicitors’ side of the legal profession to the barristers’ side of the profession in 2019.

Holly’s approach is practical, down to earth, and sensitive to the complexities of each family law case.

 

Specialist Profiles

Holly represents parties seeking to resolve division of assets upon the breakdown of marriage. She strives to provide advice that is informed, pragmatic and cost conscious.

Holly accepts instructions to represent clients in all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, including at Mediations, private FDRs, Early Neutral Evaluations and Arbitrations.

Holly has extensive experience in public law children work.  She has represented all parties (local authorities, parents, children, family members and intervenors) within care and adoption proceedings. Her experience has covered a wide range of child protection concerns for children arising from physical injuries, sexual harm, death of a parent or sibling, domestic abuse, alcohol and drug use, emotional harm, mental health difficulties and the impact of parental disability upon ability to meet a child’s needs.

BA (Hons) Law and Criminology,  Keele University

Admitted as a solicitor May 1999

Called to the Bar, Middle Temple July 2019

Honourable Society of Middle Temple

Family Law Bar Association

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