Abigail Bond
Call 1999 (Middle Temple)
Qualifications BA (Hons.) (Oxon.), LLM (University of East Anglia)
Formerly Lecturer in Law at University of Leicester and University of East Anglia
Professional Memberships Association of Lawyers for Children, Family Law Bar Assocation, Western Circuit
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Areas of Practice
Family Law
Abigail Bond has a broad family law practice with an emphasis on Children Act work.
She has a particular interest in care proceedings where she represents parents, Guardians and local authorities. Reflecting her level of call, most of her workload involves fact-finding hearings concerning allegations of sexual abuse or non-accidental injury.
Recent Cases
- Representing a father whose baby suffered an apparently non-accidental head injury: the child was eventually returned to the parents and the local authority withdrew its care order application.
- Representing a mother in a finding of fact hearing where her daughter was thought to have suffered sexual abuse (the case involved five medical experts and several alleged perpetrators).
- Representing a vulnerable mother in a finding of fact hearing concerning allegations of sexual abuse by family members and in which the teenage child complainant gave evidence.
Abigail also undertakes complex private law work such as high conflict residence disputes, cases where the principle of contact is in issue, and applications for leave to remove from the jurisdiction.
In addition, she handles cohabitation disputes under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, and Inheritance Act work.
Reported Cases
- Re M-J [2007] EWCA Civ 56
Publications
Abigail has published several articles on family law topics over the years and is the author of Care Proceedings and Learning Disabled Parents: A Handbook for Family Lawyers (Jordans, 2011). The Foreword, by Mrs Justice Pauffley, describes it as “erudite, concise and immensely readable.” The book arose out of her experience in representing learning disabled parents, where she strives to ensure that her clients are fairly and properly assessed and given every opportunity to retain the care of their children.
