Lucy Swanton

Lucy has experience in dealing with Care Proceedings from PLO stage through to Final Hearing. This includes attending hearings on Interim Care, Supervision, and Emergency Orders. Lucy is skilled at representing vulnerable clients, and those suffering from mental health and addiction issues.

Prior to Lucy’s legal career, she trained as a Registered General Nurse in London. She worked at the Bristol Royal Infirmary in the Accident and Emergency Department, then as a Family Health Visitor in an inner city Health Centre, with key responsibility for child protection. This experience formed an ideal foundation with which Lucy has built her expertise dealing with all manner of physical and sexual abuse, neglect and emotional harm cases. She is skilled at adapting to the needs and sensitive issues that face all parties in such cases.

Lucy also practices in Private Law proceedings, including those involving Domestic Abuse. She regularly attends court on Non-Molestation Orders, Prohibitive Steps Orders, S.8 Children Act matters and FHDR’s, DRA’s representing both applicants and respondents. She is instructed in cases where the situation between the parties has become extremely acrimonious, and is able to offer a calm and reassuring approach to her clients.

Although the main focus of Lucy’s practice is in Children Matters, she has attended Court on Ancillary Relief cases and has experience of drafting financial consent orders and negotiating financial settlements.