Carolyn Johnson
Called: 1974 Areas of Law: Family
HEAD OF FAMILY DEPARTMENT
Carolyn Johnson practises exclusively in all aspects of public and private family Law with particular specialist expertise in adoption. She represents parents, grandparents, children, guardians and local authorities in care cases, residence and contact disputes, injunctions, child abduction and applications to leave the jurisdiction in the Family Proceedings Court, County Court and the High Court.
Due to her long association with adoption matters as a member of Blackburn Diocesan Adoption agency and previously as a panel member of Lancashire's Adoption panel and now as a trustee of Adoption Matters North West, she has a practical as well as legal knowledge of providing wide ranging adoption services in this country with the increasing numbers of inter-country adoptions. She is also a member of the association for Adoption and Fostering.
She represented the parents in the reported case of:
"Re E (Care Proceedings: Social Work Practice) [200] 2 FLR 254)"
Carolyn has enjoyed a variety of employment including appointments, whilst raising her family, which have included serving as Chairman of the Lancashire Teaching Hospital and is still a member of numerous voluntary and charitible committees. She is also a member of the Northern Circuit Expert Witness initiative and the Family Law Bar Association.