Beronique Addington

Beronique is in the practising period of her pupillage in Family Law under the supervision of Natalia Levine. She welcomes instructions in all areas of family law. Throughout her ‘first-six’, Beronique had a varied pupillage confidently drafting and shadowing cases in:

Care

• Interim Care Orders
• Case Management Hearings
• Issue Resolution Hearings
• Special Guardianship applications
• Leave to Oppose Adoption
• Contested Final Hearings

Private children

• FHDRA
• The making and variation of Child Arrangements Orders
• Finding of fact hearings – including allegations of domestic abuse, coercive control and alienating behaviour
• Use of s.91(14) of the Children Act

Matrimonial Finance

• Financial Dispute Resolution (FDR)
• Final Hearings

Beronique has a strong background in Family Law, having previously worked as a High Court Judges’ Clerk to a senior Judge of the Family Division, Mr Justice Hayden. In her role, she observed and assisted in high level public/private family and Court of Protection matters including:

• FII
• Child sexual abuse
• Special Guardianship applications
• Child Arrangements Applications (including the return of children to countries at war)
• Abduction/Hague Convention Proceedings
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 – applications for parental orders
• Non-accidental injury
• Overlaying
• Coercive and controlling behaviour

In that role, Beronique’s personable approach meant she excelled in working with solicitors, barristers and chambers clerks, as well as others in the senior judiciary; often being trusted to assist vulnerable witnesses, litigants in person and protected parties in the High Court.

Alongside completing the Bar Training Course, Beronique completed a Master’s degree evaluating both the courts and police’s ability to identify and adjudicate upon coercive and controlling behaviour in intimate partner relationships.