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Background

Lucy Cash

Call: 2015

Lucy Cash specialises in all areas of family law, with a particular focus on matters involving children.

Lucy was called to the Bar in 2015 with a ‘very competent’ grade from the Bar Professional Training Course. She completed her Graduate Diploma in Law in 2014, having first achieved a First Class undergraduate degree in English from the University of Birmingham.

Expertise

Family

Lucy specialises in all areas of family law.

Private Law Children

Lucy has experience dealing with private children cases at all levels, from Magistrates’ Court to the High Court. She is regularly instructed to act on behalf of parents and children (through their Rule 16.4 Guardian) and has experience acting for grandparents and step-parents.

Lucy is instructed for hearings throughout private law proceedings, including emergency applications, FHDRAs, DRAs, fact finding hearings and final hearings. Lucy has gained a wealth of experience, including in cases involving:

  • Allegations of domestic abuse (including allegations of rape and coercive controlling behaviour)
  • Allegations of parental alienation
  • Allegations of physical and/or sexual abuse of children
  • Applications to remove from the jurisdiction
  • Applications for Prohibited Steps Order and/or Specific Issue Orders (including change of name, change of school and relocation)

Lucy prides herself on being able to successfully build a rapport with clients from all walks of life. She provides sensible and robust advice and works hard to achieve positive outcomes for her clients.

Public Law Children

Lucy regularly acts for local authorities, parents, grandparents and children in care proceedings. She has experience at all levels of proceedings, from applications for interim care orders, to case management hearings, fact finding hearings and final hearings. Lucy takes a pragmatic and sensible approach to proceedings and is able to offer clear advice in a calm and structured manner. Lucy prides herself on her client care in what can be very emotionally challenging proceedings.

Injunction proceedings

Lucy regularly acts for Applicants and Respondents in applications for Non-Molestation Orders and Occupation Orders under the Family Law Act 1996.

Notable Family Cases


D v D [2024]

Successful appeal of case management decision of Lay Justices on all 3 grounds.


J v W [2023]

Represented a mother alleged to have sexually and physically abused her two young children. The father was unrepresented and assisted by an independent advocate due to having diagnoses of autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and stress-induced seizures.


H v I [2022]

Represented a mother alleged by the father to have alienated him from the child. This allegation was supported by the local authority, the child’s guardian and a psychologist instructed to undertake an expert report. The child remained living with the mother at the conclusion of proceedings, despite a recommendation from the psychologist for a change of residence.


G v P [2021]

Represented a mother in her application to temporarily remove the parties’ children from the jurisdiction to Russia, a Non-Hague Convention country. Cross-examined an expert in Russian family law.


  • GDL Gold Award, University of Law
  • Inner Temple Hughes-Parry Scholarship
  • Exhibition Award
  • Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award
  • Inner Temple
  • Family Law Bar Association
  • West Midlands Family Law Bar Association
  • Midland Circuit
  • Bar Professional Training Course
  • Graduate Diploma in Law
  • LLB in English (First Class), University of Birmingham
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Clerk Team

Adam Wadley

Practice Director, Family

adamw@no5.com

07780 453079

Clare Radburn

Practice Director, Family, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury

clarer@no5.com

07809 407950

Monica Hussain

Family Clerk and Admin Assistant

monicah@no5.com

Sophie Wright

Family Clerk and Admin Assistant

sophiew@no5.com

Paul Sams

Family Clerk (Consultant)

pauls@no5.com

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