We are a family-run business with an experienced and professional team of solicitors and legal executives.

Raveen Bains (partner)

Raveen heads the matrimonial department at Patrick Lawrence Partnership. She is a very experienced family solicitor having handled many complex high net worth disputes following marriage breakdowns involving multiple properties, valuable pensions, businesses and foreign assets.

She is also able to assist clients in any dispute concerning their children and, if required, injunctive relief, as well as dealing with disputes between unmarried couples. Raveen is conscientious and takes great pride in her client-focused approach to every case, delivering comprehensive advice in an efficient manner.

Lauren Baker (partner)

Lauren Baker qualified as a solicitor in 2010. She specialises in child protection and public law  representing parents and children in care proceedings.

She became a Children Panel member in 2012. Lauren is an experienced advocate representing clients in fact finding hearings, multi-day hearings and complex contested hearings in both care proceedings, cases concerning jurisdictional issues as well as forced marriages, FGM and sexual exploitation cases. She has recently become involved in the establishment of and training at the Family Drug and Alcohol pilot court in Kent.

Toni Charlick

Toni is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and also a member of Resolution.

Toni has worked at Patrick Lawrence Partnership since 2006 and undertakes Probate matters, Wills, Lasting Power of Attorney applications and Trust Registrations. She also assists with accounts.

Colin Dearmer

Colin qualified as a solicitor in 1991 and was a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel for 25 years. He has a great deal of experience representing parents and children in care proceedings, wardship and adoption cases. Colin was previously chair of the legal group for the British Association for Adoption and Fostering and worked as an assessor for the Law Society’s Children Panel.

Prior to becoming a solicitor, Colin was a qualified social worker specialising in complex children's cases, and worked as a senior social worker for a large London Borough

ANGELA GOODWIN (PARTNER)

Angela is a solicitor undertaking work mainly in relation to children and specialising in care proceedings.  Angela also deals with advising clients in relation to Special Guardianship, adoption and has experience in dealing with cases with an international element.

Angela has been a member of the Children Panel since 2003 and regularly represents parents and children in complex care proceedings. Angela graduated in Law from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1997 and qualified as a Solicitor in 2000.

ANDREW HUMPHRIES (Partner)

Andrew can assist clients in divorce proceedings and financial disputes between couples, whether married or unmarried.

He represents parents in private law proceedings involving disputes as to child arrangements.

Andrew has a specialism in representing parents and family members in care proceedings brought by social services and has been involved in a number of complex cases involving allegations of non- accidental injury, in particular defending parents and interveners in cases where non-accidental head injury is alleged against them. 

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