Jade is an associate in the children team with expertise in fertility law.
She advises clients on a broad range of domestic and international children law issues including child arrangements, known donor/co-parenting, legal parenthood and relocation disputes. She is particularly experienced in advising non-traditional and LGBTQ+ families and often appears before the High Court in complex cases.
Jade also advises transgender clients on a variety of matters ranging from applications for Gender Recognition Certificates to family law issues such as legal parenthood and child arrangement disputes. She has represented transgender parents and parents of transgender children in complex court proceedings.
She has spoken at many events on issues relating to children, fertility and surrogacy law. She has also written articles and blogs covering topics such as adoption, co-parenting arrangements, surrogacy and fertility issues for legal publications.
Jade qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and joined Russell-Cooke in July 2021. She adopts a strategic and sensitive approach to all of her work and strives to work with her clients to resolve matters in a constructive and cost efficient way.