HANNAH BAKER

Call: 2005

Practice Profile
Hannah's practice covers all areas of family law, including both ancillary relief and children matters. She has a particular interest in cases with a foreign element.

Hannah has experience in a number of high profile, big money cases and complex private law children matters in the High Court. In 2006 she appeared in the High Court in the case of H v. H (Queen's Proctor Intervening) (Validity of Japanese Divorce) [2007] 1 FLR 1318 as junior to Lucy Stone QC. Hannah also has hands-on experience of legal practice in a foreign jurisdiction having worked for Californian trial attorneys Howarth & Smith in Los Angeles.

In 2008 Hannah was awarded a Pegasus Scholarship by Inner Temple. She spent three months working as a judicial assistant to Chief Justice Diana Bryant in the Family Court of Australia.

From 1st February 2010 Hannah will be on sabbatical working as a Legal Officer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law in the Netherlands.

Hannah taught family law at Cambridge University from 2006 to 2009.

Appointments and Memberships
Family Law Bar Association

Publications
• The International Family Justice Judicial Conference for Common Law and Commonwealth Jurisdictions [2009] IFL 250
• New Cohabitation Law in Australia [2009] Fam Law 120
• Family Law Down Under: Can the Old World Learn From the New? [2009] IFL 165
• The European Court of Justice and Brussels II Revised [2006] IFL 18
• MMR: Medicine, Mothers and Rights [2004] CLJ 49

Education
• Queens' College, Cambridge University (First Class Hons in Law).
• Universiteit Utrecht (First Class in International and European Law).
• Bar Vocational Course Grade: Outstanding (BPP).
• Middle Temple Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the BVC.
• Awarded the Queen Mother's Scholarship in 2003 by Middle Temple.
• Hannah has also worked as research assistant to Dr Andrew Bainham (Reader in Family Law and Policy) at Cambridge University.

Personal
Hannah enjoys kickboxing, yoga and musical theatre.