Jacqueline Humphreys
Call 1994 (Lincolns Inn)
Qualifications MA Jurisprudence (Oxon) 1992 LLM Canon Law Cardiff Law School, University of Wales
Mediation Jacqueline is an accredited mediator
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Areas of Practice
- Family
Jacqueline is an experienced specialist family law practitioner undertaking all aspects of family work with particular focus on care proceedings and ancillary relief. She has experience in all levels of court up to the Court of Appeal. She has worked for the Official Solicitor, CAFCASS Legal, Children’s Guardians and Local Authorities in addition to private clients.
She has a strong ancillary relief practice including cases with over 1m assets. This has been recognised in Legal 500. She has recent experience of cases involving family companies, farms, third party assets, large pension funds and tracing deliberately hidden assets.
She has a small, complementary, chancery practice dealing primarily with Inheritance Act cases and cohabitee disputes, together with charity law and ecclesiastical law cases. She was appointed as amicus curi in an ancillary relief case with two litigants in person where the parties had acted in breach of trust regarding funds to which their minor children were beneficially entitled.
Whilst having a very practical approach to her cases, Jacqueline enjoys the academic study of law, completing her LLM part time whilst in practice and being the author/co-author of a number of published articles on both family law and ecclesiastical law topics. She has also lectured locally and nationally on a range of legal issues, including recently on the Civil Partnerships Bill.
Recent Cases
- Issues of non-accidental injury (e.g. spiral fractures in young children and deliberate tampering with medical treatment)
- Serious sexual abuse and neglect. Her case dealing with which local authority should be designated in a care order was reported as North Yorkshire County Council v Wiltshire County Council [1999] 2 FLR 560.
Reported cases
North Yorkshire County Council v Wiltshire County Council (1999) 2 FLR 560
Publications
- The Civil Partnership Act 2004, same-sex Marriage & the Church of England Jacqueline Humphreys (2004) 7 Ecc LJ 405
- The Shipman Injunction: Right or Wrong? Private Client Business (1995) p368, (with Philip Moor).
- Podium: Remarriage in Church After Divorce Modern Believing 42(3) 2001 pp.50-55 (with Simon J Taylor).
- ‘The Right to Marry in the Parish Church: A Rehabilitation of Argar v Holdsworth’ (2004) 7 Ecc.L.J. (July 2004)
- Mystical Union: Legal and Theological Perspectives on Marriage’ in Adrian Thatcher (ed) Celebrating Christian Marriage (Edinbugh: T & T Clarke, 2001) pp. 421-439 (with Simon J Taylor).
Interests
- Drawing
- Travel
- Literature
She is an elected member of the General Synod of the Church of England and an appointed member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the Church of England.
