Stuart Fuller
Degree: MA (Cantab)
Year of call and Inn: 2007; Inner Temple. Admitted as a solicitor 1980.
Professional Membership: FLBA
Practice:
For the majority of his 27 years as a solicitor Stuart specialised in children law, having been a member of the Children Panel since 1985 and conducting advocacy at FPC, County Court and High Court levels. Following his transfer to the Bar in March 2007 he practised at 4 Brick Court, a specialist family law set in London, until joining Albion Chambers in August 2010.
Stuart has many years’ experience in both public and private law work, with a particular interest in the former. He has represented local authorities, parents, children (on direct instructions and through Children’s Guardians) and other parties in care proceedings, other public law Children Act work and applications concerning adoption. He has frequently been involved in lengthy fact-finding hearings relating to physical and sexual abuse. He also has experience of Hague Convention international abduction cases.
In addition to his child law practice Stuart accepts instructions in Court of Protection work, particularly in welfare and deprivation of liberty cases.
Reported cases:
Re B [2008] 2 FLR 141 — represented the appellant children in the “standard of proof” case in the House of Lords (led by Stephen Cobb QC), having previously represented them in the six-week fact-finding hearing before Charles J;
M v M (Abduction: Settlement) [2008] 2 FLR 1888 – representing Polish father who had for the second time abducted his children to England;
Re L (Paternity Testing) [2010] 2 FLR 188 – representing local authority in an appeal concerning DNA testing via a putative half-sibling;
Re KB (Interim Care Order) [2010] 1 FLR 1211 – representing father on appeal by Children’s Guardian against refusal of interim care order.
Re L-W (Enforcement and Committal) [2010] EWCA Civ 1253 – represented child through Rule 9.5 Guardian in Court of Appeal when consideration was given to the meaning of “make available for contact” and to methods of enforcing orders for contact
Other cases of interest:
In 2009 Stuart represented a Local Authority in a complex 10-day fact-finding hearing in the High Court, involving allegations of physical and emotional abuse of children from West Africa. The father and one of the children were represented by Leading Counsel.
In 2009 / 10 Stuart represented a father against whom serious allegations of sexual abuse were made. Stuart led a junior member of his former chambers in a fact-finding hearing that ran for 16 days, with 24 witnesses including five paediatricians.
In 2010 Stuart represented a medical consultant who was a respondent parent in care proceedings. Following argument in the High Court the Local Authority decided not to continue with their application for an order.
In 2011 Stuart successfully represented a teenager against whom sexual abuse allegations were made in private law proceedings
Albion Chambers, Broad Street, Bristol. BS1 1DR
T: 0117 927 2144
F: 0117 926 2569
stuart.fuller@albionchambers.co.uk
Clerk: Michael Harding
T 0117 311 0302
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