Lucy Logan Green

‘Lucy has a very analytical and forensic approach to cases and is always very well-prepared. She works very hard for her clients and can think carefully about how to ensure that they are fairly and properly represented.’
Top Tier
Legal 500, 2024

Experience

Year of Call: 2018

Education

City Law School, GDL & BPTC
UCL, Russian Studies BA

Languages

Russian

Profile

Lucy specialises in cases concerning children. She acts in both public and private law cases as well as those with an international element. In public law, she represents parents, local authorities and guardians. She has experience in cases involving injury, sexual abuse, FII and neglect.

Public Children Law

Lucy has experience in dealing with the spectrum of complex issues that arise across public law proceedings. She acted as junior counsel in London Borough of Barnet v AG & Others [2021] EWHC 1253, which involved complex legal arguments in respect of a serving diplomat. She has also acted as junior counsel in FII and NAI cases.

Lucy has represented local authorities, parents and guardians in cases involving domestic abuse, substance misuse, alcohol abuse and sexual abuse.

Private children law

Lucy is regularly instructed in private law matters and has represented clients in cases in which there are allegations of domestic abuse and parental alienation. Lucy also has experience of cases with an international element, including applications to relocate abroad.

Lucy is particularly interested in the law relating to assisted reproductive technologies and the evolving environment of the law of surrogacy in this country and in other jurisdictions.

International children

Lucy appears in the High Court representing both applicants and respondents to cases brought under the Hague Convention and also has experience of cases involving child abduction to non-Hague countries.

Other experience

Prior to commencing pupillage, Lucy interned at the Legal Action Group where she assisted in editing publications including the Court of Protection Handbook. Lucy also worked in between her studies as a paralegal in a busy family law department at a London firm.

Lucy studied Russian at university and spent a year living in Moscow and St Petersburg.  She remains interested in Russian language and culture.

Directories

‘Lucy has a very analytical and forensic approach to cases and is always very well-prepared. She works very hard for her clients and can think carefully about how to ensure that they are fairly and properly represented.’
Top Tier
Legal 500, 2024