Lesley Monkhouse – Family Law Department

Lesley MonkhouseLesley specialises in cases concerning children, both Public Law cases involving Social Services, and Private Law cases which involve parents and other family members following the breakdown of family relationships. She represents parents, children and other family members.

Lesley has particular experience of child abduction cases and has acted for people whose children have been abducted as well as those who have allegedly abducted children.

Lesley is a member of Resolution and has been accredited In Private Children and Domestic Abuse since 2000. She is also a member of the Law Society Children Panel.

Lesley studied law at Northumbria University and qualified as a solicitor in 1991.

Lesley can be e-mailed directly: lesley.monkhouse@davidgray.co.uk

Lesley can be contacted directly on: 0191 232 95 47 ext 4002

Family Department Team Members


Mary Shaw
Head of Department, Solicitor

Clare Routledge
Solicitor

Lesley Monkhouse
Solicitor

Elspeth Thomson
Solicitor

 Lucy Mead
Solicitor

Cara Smith
Solicitor

Nicky Hunter
Solicitor

 Jane Wilkinson
Solicitor

Joanne Charlton
Solicitor
Claire Hunter
 Claire Hunter
Solicitor

Laura Croft
Solicitor
Hannah Pearce
Hannah Pearce
Solicitor

Jenny Carter
Solicitor

Lisa Bowman
Paralegal

Paul Harbison
Paralegal

Anne Brooks
Paralegal

Lisa Bucknall
Paralegal

Suzanne Bullimore
Paralegal 

Natalie Kidd
Paralegal 

Nicola Thompson
Paralegal
 

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