Lauren Dempster BL

Mc D (A Minor) v Child and Family Agency & Ors and B (A Minor) v Child and Family Agency & Ors [2024] IESC 6

Acted for parents of M and father of B in the Child and Family Agency’s challenge to mandatory orders granted by the High Court to direct the Agency to determine each child required special care and the subsequent High Court special care order being granted where the Agency claimed it could not comply with such Order

Child and Family Agency v M (A Minor) & Ors and Child and Family Agency v B (A Minor) & Ors [2023] IEHC 632

Acted for parents of M and father of B in the Child and Family Agency’s novel application for special care orders where it asked the Court not to grant the Order due to its impossibility to comply with the Order

M (A Minor) v Child and Family Agency and B (A Minor) v Child and Family Agency [2023] IEHC 559

Acted for parents of M and father of B in Judicial Review proceedings challenging the decision of the Child and Family Agency not to make a determination under s.23F of the Child Care Act, 1991

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