Louise is a Partner in the Family team based at the Alderley Edge office. She specialises in all aspects of family law and has particular expertise in dealing with cases involving foreign jurisdictional problems. She deals with complex private law children disputes including child abduction under the Hague Convention, Brussels ii and the inherent jurisdiction.

Louise is a Resolution accredited specialist for disputes over children, including financial matters and child abduction.
 
Louise is recognised by The Legal 500 as highly regarded for child abduction cases.  

Best career moment: I dealt with the first case in England under new provisions introduced across Europe by the Brussels ii agreement whereby the Court of Origin is able to overturn a non return order made in a foreign jurisdiction resulting in a child being returned to England and its parent.

Louise is a member of Resolution, a national association of family solicitors. She also sits on the Resolution local area committee and is the Resolution representative on the Greater Manchester Court User Committee. Louise is also a Trustee and sits on the management committee for Pro-Contact.

She lectures on family law issues and has written numerous articles for legal publications.

Louise has been interviewed by the press about family law issues, including The Times, Radio 4's Today programme, BBC Look North West, BBC Radio Manchester and Silk FM.

Louise also advises and assists the researchers of ‘Coronation Street’ in relation to family law related storylines.

Notable cases include

• Re A (Abduction : Non return) 2006 EWHC 3397
  Where the Maltese court had made a non-return order in respect of the child, exercising its discretion under art 13(b) of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980, and the mother sought the child's return pursuant to art 11 of Council Regulation (EC) 2201/2003 (concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility). The English court ordered that the child be returned to the jurisdiction. On the evidence, the situation was not, as had been found by the court in Malta, so risky and so potentially dangerous as to surmount what certainly was the English view of art 13(b) as a very considerable hurdle. This was the first time this provision, introduced in 2005 by council regulation 2201/2003, had been used in England.
• Re AP V TD 2010 EWHC 2040
  Successfully arguing for a father that by agreeing in a contact order, (which permitted the mother to remove her children from the jurisdiction) that any future issues about contact should be dealt with in the English courts, she had also impliedly accepted that the English courts had jurisdiction in relation to issues of residence. In addition, parental responsibility was indivisible and acceptance of the court's jurisdiction in relation to one aspect of parental responsibility was to be taken as an acceptance in respect of parental responsibility generally

Louise qualified as a solicitor in 1997 and became a partner in 2006.