Yvonne Healing

Year of Call: 1987


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  • 'Yvonne has extensive experience in representing a wide range of clients, lay and professional, in public law cases, and she is a calm and collected advocate and ably presents the client's case.'

    The Legal 500 (2025) - Family: Children & Domestic Abuse
  • 'Yvonne is an absolute delight to work with. She is always calm, reassuring, and pragmatic, she is well-prepared, and she is able to get to the heart of a legal problem incredibly quickly.'
    Tier 1

    The Legal 500 (2024) - Family: Children and Domestic Violence
  • Ranked: Tier 1

    The Legal 500 (2024)
  • ‘Yvonne is a vastly experienced barrister, who brings to a case a calm and child-focused approach to addressing the issues. Yvonne's advocacy is excellent, as is her preparation for hearings and ability to grasp and focus on the central, key issues.’

    The Legal 500 (2021) - Child Law (Public and Private)
  • ‘She instils confidence in clients.’

    Ranked: tier 1

    The Legal 500 (2020)

Education

University of Liverpool
Inns of Court School of Law


Appointments

Family Law Bar Association
Child Concern


  • 'Yvonne has extensive experience in representing a wide range of clients, lay and professional, in public law cases, and she is a calm and collected advocate and ably presents the client's case.'

    The Legal 500 (2025) - Family: Children & Domestic Abuse
  • 'Yvonne is an absolute delight to work with. She is always calm, reassuring, and pragmatic, she is well-prepared, and she is able to get to the heart of a legal problem incredibly quickly.'
    Tier 1

    The Legal 500 (2024) - Family: Children and Domestic Violence
  • Ranked: Tier 1

    The Legal 500 (2024)
  • ‘Yvonne is a vastly experienced barrister, who brings to a case a calm and child-focused approach to addressing the issues. Yvonne's advocacy is excellent, as is her preparation for hearings and ability to grasp and focus on the central, key issues.’

    The Legal 500 (2021) - Child Law (Public and Private)
  • ‘She instils confidence in clients.’

    Ranked: tier 1

    The Legal 500 (2020)

Yvonne Healing has vast experience in the conduct of care proceedings for all parties – local authorities; children; parents; and the Official Solicitor.

She conducts hearings in courts at all levels. The majority of her cases take place in the Family Courts and the Family Division of the High Court.

She regularly deals with complex and high profile cases.

She frequently deals with cases involving international elements; serious criminal offences; terrorism; modern slavery; paedophile groups; non accidental injuries, including poisoning and fabricated or induced illness by carers; brain injuries; and severe emotional abuse.

Yvonne also represents parents or other family members in private law cases, particularly those in which the child is made a party, or there is local authority or other professional involvement.

She conducts seminars in chambers and individually for firms of solicitors.

Yvonne qualified as a mediator with CEDR in 2010. Her mediation practice centres on property disputes, both between individuals, and organisations.

Yvonne has been an advocacy trainer since 2008. She trained with the Honourable Society of Inner Temple, and ensures that she devotes a proportion of her time to this every year.

Yvonne is an experienced practitioner and teacher of meditation and yoga. She utilises the skills and knowledge in these areas in her daily life, which of course includes her professional work.

 

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THE FATHER V THE MOTHER and J [2023] EWFC 58

BURY MBC V ML and ANOR [2023] 1 FCR 726

ST HELENS COUNCIL V M, F1, F2, W,X,Y,Z [2022] EWFC 167

BURY MBC V ML and LN and DW [2022] EWHC 746 (Fam)

SALFORD CITY COUNCIL V W, X, Y, Z and AB.C.D.E.F [2021] EWHC 61

SALFORD CITY COUNCIL V W, X, Y, Z and AB.C.D.E.F [2021] EWHC 1689

A FATHER V X BOROUGH COUNCIL and A MOTHER an B and Y [2020] EWCA Civ 767

A FATHER V X BOROUGH COUNCIL and A MOTHER an B and Y [2020] EWCA Civ 767

Re: R (Children) (2017) EWCA Civ 443

Re: V (A Child) (2016) EWFC 58

Re: A (A Child) sub nom (1) F (2) SM v (1) M (2) A (A Child by her Children’s Guardian) (2016)

An NHS Foundation Trust v (1) A (2) M (3) P (4) A Local Authority (2014) EWHC 920 (Fam)

Derbyshire County Council v (1) A Mother (2) A Father (2013) EWHC 1864 (Fam)

Re: N-C (Children) CA (2011) EWCA Civ 1434

Re: S (A Child) (Special Guardianship Report) CA (2007) EWCA Civ 90

Re: S (A Child) (Adoption Order with Special Guardianship Order) CA (2007) AER 175

Re: B (Minors) (Care with Supervision Order) CA (1997) 1 FCR 340

Manchester City Council v Elizabeth Bailey (1996) 2 FLR 693

Re: M (A Minor) (Child: Wishes and Feelings) CA (1995) 2 FCR 90

Re: H (Minors) (Interim Custody) CA (1991) FCR 564

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