Family barrister Maria Hancock’s most notable cases include:
H v B (Enforcement of Domestic Return Order) [2020] EWHC 961 (Fam)
Re F ( Child) (International Relocation Cases) [2015] EWCA Civ 882
Re A and B (Children: Brussels II Revised: Article 15) [2014] EWHC 3516
A County Council v M & Ors (Foreign Adoption) [2013] 1FLR 88
A County Council v M & Ors (RRO Artificial Insemination) [2013] 2 FLR 1270
Re W (2021) represented M in DOLS proceedings (High Court)
Re W (2021) represented Child in serious NAI proceedings
Re T (2021) successfully argued No Direct Contact in Wardship proceedings (High Court)
RE M (2021) represented Child in FGM proceedings (High Court)
Re A (2021) represented Child in International Child Abduction proceedings (High Court)
Re B (2020) successfully argued that M not responsible for multiple fractures to baby
Re H (2020) successful exoneration of M in proceedings following death of baby (High Court)
Re M (2018) – successful exoneration of F in proceedings following death of baby (High Court)
Re AA (2018) – successful proving of all D/A allegations, including rape of M – children returned
Re M (2018) represented children in intra-familial sexual abuse case
Re B (2017) represented M in FII proceedings
Re K (2017) represented M found to have inflicted, jointly with F, 28 fractures on baby (received 8 years imprisonment in criminal court subsequently)
Re G (2016) successful defence of Hague Convention Child Abduction proceedings (High Court)
Re K (2016) represented F found to have sexually abused children (received 18 years imprisonment in criminal court subsequently) (High Court)