Anthony Forde

Anthony is a Consultant Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience. Anthony specialises in all aspects of Children Law and is based in West London and Surrey.

Anthony is a member of the Children Law Accreditation Scheme recognising his expertise in the field of children law.

Anthony is regularly instructed by parents and children via their CAFCASS Guardian in care proceedings.

Background

Anthony has a particular expertise in:

1. Public Law Children / Care Proceedings;

2. Private Law Children Proceedings;

3. Applications under the Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court;

Notable cases:

• Re [2023] EWFC 171 – Guidance on dealing with allegations of sexual abuse between siblings - Fact Finding

• AB (Childhood Vaccination) (Rev1) [2021] EWHC 1581 (Fam) (30 April 2021) – Acted for children in a case involving contested vaccination of children subject to interim care orders.

• MR v HS [2015] EWHC 234 (Fam) (05 February 2015) – acted for the Mother in a case before the High Court (Abduction Proceedings) that concluded Mother can remain in the UK.

• Represented a client in a fabricated illness case.

• Represented the surviving children in a case involving siblings murdered by their parents.

• Represented teenager separately from his Guardian as a victim and perpetrator in a sexual abuse case. Successfully sought an amendment to Threshold findings removing the client as a perpetrator.

• Represented the children in a complex fact-finding hearing in a private law matter and successfully sought findings of coercive control, rape and domestic abuse.

• Represented the children through their Guardian in a case that ran concurrently with criminal proceedings as result of a murder.

• Represented the Child separately in a complex secure accommodation and DOLS proceedings where the issues included religious radicalization.

Anthony undertakes all of his own advocacy and regularly appears in all levels of the Family Court.

Anthony obtained membership at the Bar of England and Wales in 2022 and is a dual qualified Barrister.

Anthony is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children and the Family Law Bar Association.