Edmund Farrell

Ed Farrell was Called to the Bar at Grays Inn in 1981. He is a graduate in law from the University of Leeds and holds an LLM in international law & human rights from Cambridge University, as well as a postgraduate diploma in European Law from Kings College, London.

Ed specialises in family law and is a member of the Family Law Bar Association. He is an advocate in ancillary relief & trusts of land matters as well as in public and private law children cases.

Ed has acted in many High Court and Court of Appeal cases involving such matters as:

1. Financial relief after a foreign decree of divorce.
2. Challenging a care order.
3. International abduction of children.
4. Contempt of court.
5. The threat of ‘honour killing’ in a culturally Muslim child case. In the first reported case on this increasingly recognised problem (Re S Family Division before Black J ). The father sought contact to his child while the mother was in hiding from both sides of the family and was under police protection, as she was considered at risk of ‘honour killing’ from the father’s family.
6. Ed has also appeared as a human rights advocate in Strasbourg.

Ed enjoys public speaking and is always happy to present a talk about the Bar or to give a seminar on family law matters, if requested.

Ed is the father of a 6 year old boy mountaineer and an extremely loquacious 4 year old girl.