Finalists at the Family Law Awards - Children Law Team of the Year

28th August 2025

Image: Corbett Le Quesne Family Law Team

We are very excited and proud to share that we are finalists for the vey prestigious Family Law Awards in the category of Children's Law Team of the Year. Lizzie has also been shortlisted for Family Law Champion of the Year. 

We have previously won the Family Law Team of the Year: South and we received a Highly Commended for the Family Law Support Team of the Year. Advocate Barbara Corbett has also won Partner of the Year Award and we have been finalists in the main category several times as well. 

This is the press release we issued following the news that we had been named finalist in the Children Law Team of the Year Category: 

PRESS RELEASE                                                                             

Corbett Le Quesne shortlisted for Children’s Law Team of the Year

Previous winners of the Family Law Team of the Year South Family Law Award, Corbett Le Quesne are finalists in the Family Law Awards once again. This year they have been recognised for their outstanding work in the sphere of Child Law which includes their public, private and international work.

Corbett Le Quesne have the highest number of senior specialist advocates on the Jersey Law Society Children Panel. Advocate Barbara Corbett is qualified in Child Inclusive Mediation and is a Family Law (Children) Arbitrator. She is also a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children. Barbara’s work as a Law Commissioner led to changes in the law coming into force this year regarding parentage, assisted reproduction and surrogacy. Nicholas is a governor of the fertility charity Tiny Seeds and advises on surrogacy and fertility law matters.

Advocates Barbara Corbett and Nicholas Le Quesne are also members of the Mental Health Review Tribunal and have particular expertise in cases involving parental or child mental health issues.

Advocate Kate Donohue said “We are all very proud of our Child Law work and to be recognised in this way by the prestigious Family Law Awards is absolutely fantastic. We work with UHNW clients and public law clients so the work is extremely varied but at the core of every issue is a child or children who need us to do our absolute best to get the right result. I would also like to say that we work with so many fantastic professionals who are experts in this field and we could not do our job well without them.”

Annually Corbett Le Quesne run a popular international Child Law Conference. Barbara spoke at the Child Abduction Lawyers Association Seminar in London in May 2024, the Family Law Symposium in association with the Commonwealth Lawyers Association Conference in April 2025 and at the International Association of Family Lawyers Conference in May 2025. Corbett Le Quesne is recognised internationally and have recently had cases involving Egypt, Russia, Romani, Portugal, Zimbabwe and Latvia among many more.

Ecrivain Jamie-Lee Morgan said “one of the things we would love to see in Jersey that would hugely support our work with children is the introduction of a specialist Jersey Drug and Alcohol Court. They have been extremely beneficial in the UK and we have been working with senior judiciary in the UK to see how they could work in Jersey. You have to be passionate about what you do to work in family law but particularly when working with children and to be recognised for the work we do is lovely but we also hope it could lead to positive changes for the families in the island.”

Corbett Le Quesne is extremely supportive of their staff leading a good work life balance so and offer a four day working week, generous parental leave and flexible working hours. Their compassionate leave policies include support and leave for staff members undergoing assisted reproduction, surrogacy, adoption and baby loss.

Lizzie Keogh, Office Manager at Corbett Le Quesne has also received a prestigious finalist’s place for the third year running, partly for the work she does arranging the Corbett Le Quesne conferences. She is in the running for the Family Law Champion Award which celebrates individuals who have made an ‘outstanding contribution in the family law sphere’. This category will be decided by a public vote. If you wish to vote you can follow the link on Corbett Le Quesne’s blog page or the Family Law Awards website.

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