Louise Coubrough

Louise specialises in divorce and financial cases. She has experience of the full range of financial cases, including those with substantial assets and complex finances. She is also experienced in financial claims for unmarried parties, as well as in cases dealing with financial support for children.

Louise also has expertise in children cases on relationship breakdown -ranging from residence and contact to international child abduction. She acted for one of the parents in the case of W (a child) which went twice to the Court of Appeal; firstly to review the relevance of violence by the left behind parent against the abducting parent; and on the second occasion to clarify the law in the event that conditions for return are not met, establishing that the initial decision in such a case is provisional until the conditions are satisfied.

Louise also sits as a President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal. She is a trustee of the Citizens Advice Bureau based at The Royal Courts of Justice, and is a long standing volunteer adviser at a local law centre. She was formerly chair of the family law committee of the Society of Labour Lawyers and was involved in briefing the Labour front bench team on family law, and helping draft proposed amendments, some of which were enacted.

She lectures and writes on family law and human rights.

Louise studied law at Exeter University and qualified as a solicitor in 1986. She has been a specialist family lawyer since 1992.