In the Matter of K & H (Children) [2006] EWCA Civ 1898
David Sharp
David Sharp
barrister
Call: 1986
David Sharp was educated at Oxford University and has been in private practice at the Bar in England and Wales for over 30 years, specialising for the last 20 years in family work and cohabitation disputes. David has been involved in several high profile cases that have attracted the attention of the national media, and a number of other cases at the forefront of legal developments in the field of family law. David also has a wealth of practical experience in relation to the realities of family life, having been married for 25 years and having 5 children, now aged 24, 21, 18, 15 and 11 years.
David Sharp was educated at Oxford University and has been in private practice at the Bar in England and Wales for over 30 years, specialising for the last 20 years in family work and cohabitation disputes. David has been involved in several high profile cases that have attracted the attention of the national media, and a number of other cases at the forefront of legal developments in the field of family law. David also has a wealth of practical experience in relation to the realities of family life, having been married for 25 years and having 5 children, now aged 24, 21, 18, 15 and 11 years.
Specialist in:
David also acts in private cases including child arrangements, changes of name and other specific issues and prohibited steps orders. He specialises in leave to remove from the jurisdiction. He has, amongst others, dealt with relocation to France, Spain, Ireland, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Morocco, Canada, Tanzania, Cyprus, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Israel. Instability in the country concerned did not prevent David securing leave (examples include the last 3 countries mentioned).
David has acted for many years for local authorities, parents and guardians in public law proceedings, being involved in a number of important guideline cases and dealing with serious and complex sexual and physical abuse allegations. He appeared in Re K & H [2006] EWCA Civ 1898, the guideline case on interim care orders.
W v Hertfordshire County Council [1993] 1 FLR 118
David has conducted a large number of multi-million pound cases; assets include complicated offshore and discretionary trust arrangements, share option schemes, large scale property portfolios, farms and even a medieval priory. David handled the Mareva proceedings in the case of Clark v Clark, which became front page news in the national press, and represented the estate of Chigusa Maeda Turner, whose murder by her husband, in Venezuela, also made national news.
David also deals in Inheritance Act cases and cases under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.
David has advised and/or represented clients in well over 80 cohabitation cases concerning the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, a significant number also involving proceedings under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989. He has had only two adverse results in all this time, which he hopes one day to get over!
David advises and represents clients in cases involving the inherent jurisdiction, child abduction, international adoptions and in various kinds of case with an international element.
Professional Qualifications
Mediator
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
New South Wales Bar