
Companion Animals and Domestic Abuse – Controlling and Coercive Behaviours
Family Webinar discussing how the family pet can be used to control and coerce and thereby provide evidence of domestic abuse.
Published: 19th May 2022
Marcia specialises in children work and has almost 30 years’ experience at the family bar. She undertakes both public and private law work.
Marcia’s main practice involves serious & complex child abuse matters including those where there are issues of sexual abuse, non-accidental injury and the death of a child. She acts on behalf of local authorities, parents, children’s guardians and extended family members in such cases at all levels of court. She also has a particular interest in cases relating to contact with children in local authority care.
In private law work Marcia has a particular interest in domestic abuse and especially controlling and coercive behaviours.
She is regularly instructed by the most experienced of family solicitors in London and the Home Counties and has built a reputation for her detailed and thorough preparation, her attention to detail, her acute understanding of complex legal and evidential issues and her robust style of advocacy.
As a highly experienced advocate she offers clear advice to her clients and argues persuasively for them at all levels of court.
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Recent Seminars
Family Webinar discussing how the family pet can be used to control and coerce and thereby provide evidence of domestic abuse.
Published: 19th May 2022
We are delighted to welcome Marcia Hyde who has joined 42 Bedford Row’s Family Group as a senior barrister from Coram Chambers.
Published: 5th Aug 2019