Bradford Family Law

Bradford Family Law is a firm of family law solicitors based in Bradford that specialises in care proceedings and child law. Clare McCourt is the Senior Partner and has over 25 years of experience representing parents, children, carers, and extended family members in care proceedings and child law. She has been an accredited member of the Law Society Children Panel since 1999. Mark Stout is a solicitor with over 10 years of experience, holds Higher Rights of Audience (Civil), and is an accredited member of the Law Society Children Panel. Ammaar Hussain is a Paralegal who works with children cases and is an Urdu/Punjabi speaker.

Julie McGovern is a paralegal with over 30 years of experience representing parents in care proceedings. The firm offers free initial telephone advice. Services provided include care proceedings, emergency protection orders, police protection orders, special guardianship orders, placement orders, adoption orders, pre-proceeding meetings, child protection review conferences, initial child protection case conferences, section 20, kinship care, PLO meetings, discharging care orders, opposing adoption, and acting as an intervenor in care proceedings.

Child care proceedings and the return of children from foster placement form the theme that recurs most across the feedback for Bradford Family Law. Claire, also referred to as Clare, is singled out repeatedly by name, with several customers describing how she listened carefully, explained each step in plain terms and stood alongside families through court hearings at an exceptionally difficult time.

Parents note that she answered their questions patiently and kept them informed as matters progressed, while one account credits Mark Stout with maintaining regular contact and securing a successful outcome in a case involving a father and his child. A consistent point is the sense of being represented with genuine commitment rather than being processed as a case number, and the empathy shown is mentioned as often as the legal work itself.

The firm's handling of childrens care matters, including contested hearings and reunification, is what reviewers return to, and the results achieved are described as the reason families felt able to move forward with confidence. Different names appear across the accounts, yet the pattern is the same: clients feel heard, advised clearly and supported from first instruction to final decision, with the outcome in their childrens cases forming the closing note of most accounts and the firm's work in this field consistently described in appreciative terms.