PANELIST
Adrienne Barnett
Reader in Law, Brunel University of London
Adrienne Barnett was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1981 and practiced at the independent Bar in London for over 30 years, for most of which she specialized in Family Law, primarily representing parents and children in serious care cases and in private law cases involving allegations of domestic abuse. She is a door tenant at One Pump Court Chambers. She teaches Family Law and Children and the Law.
Dr. Barnett’s specialist area of research for the past 28 years has been domestic abuse, family court proceedings, and more recently parental alienation. She has published widely and presented papers at numerous academic and professional conferences in the UK and abroad. She is a member of the Advisory Group of Rights of Women, a core founder member of SHERA Research Network, the UK lead on the international strategy group of Hague Mothers (a FiliA legacy project), a Co-Director of Right to Equality, a member of the Advisory Group of SafeLives Domestic Abuse Training for Lawyers and a Trustee of Project Lighthouse. Dr Barnett has been active in policy change and professional training in the area of domestic abuse and family court proceedings. She was commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to undertake a literature review to support their inquiry into domestic abuse and the family courts, published in June 2020. She is involved in a number of research projects investigating domestic abuse, parental alienation and family court proceedings, and the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention. Dr. Barnett has recently initiated a Domestic Abuse Clinic at Brunel Law School in partnership with National Legal Service LLP.
Dr. Barnett’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Cape Town, SA, a Diploma in Law from Polytechnic of Central London, now University of Westminster, Bar Finals Examinations from Inns of Court School of Law, an LLM in Child Law and Policy from Brunel University of London, and a PhD from Brunel University of London.