Karen Lennon
Year of call: 2003
areas of practice
synopsis
Karen Lennon is an experienced and robust practitioner specialising in Family, Civil, and Employment.
Her family practice is extensive, covering all aspects of family law. She has handled ancillary relief claims involving complex business accounts and substantial assets, as well as a wide range of cases under Trusts of Land, TOLATA, and Schedule 1 Applications under the Children’s Act 1989.
Her experience in children’s cases is similarly broad, in both the private law and public law arena. She has successfully acted in complex multiple-non-accidental injury cases, learning difficulty/mental health cases, chronic neglect cases, parental alienation cases, and removal from the jurisdiction cases. Throughout her career Miss Lennon has acted for Local Authorities, Parents and other family members, children (through their Guardian and on their own), and for the Official Solicitor.
Her Civil practice compliments her family practice well. Her experience encompasses trusts of land cases, boundary disputes and personal injury cases. She also continues to run an effective practice in employment law, acting for Defendants and Claimants alike in unfair dismissal, redundancy, and disability claims.
Miss Lennon’s practice covers the whole of the North East circuit. She is well known on circuit for her ability to deal with and empathise with difficult clients, often ensuring the best outcome by calming down the client and persuading them to take sensible positions rather than antagonistic ones. Her tenacity and professional yet robust approach to cases is similarly renowned, having recently been referred to by an instructing solicitor as “a down-to-earth yet feisty Northern Irish woman who fights her client’s corner”.
education
- Miss Lennon Was Educated At Dalriada Grammar In Northern Ireland And Came To England To Study Law At Northumbria University. She Practised For 2 and a half Years In Northern Ireland before returning to the North-East of England, joining York Chambers (now Dere Street Chambers) in February 2007.
- Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne
- Law exempting Bar Vocational Course LLB (Hons) 2:1 (Very Competent)
appointments
- Member of the Northern Irish Bar (2003)
- Member of the Family Bar Association
- Member of the North East Circuit
other information
- Miss Lennon Practised For 2 and a half Years In Northern Ireland, Gaining Experience In Brussels II Cases Where Parents Had Absconded With The Children Over The Border To Ireland.
- Her practice there included criminal work and during her training she was involved in a high profile terrorist case. Furthermore, Miss Lennon also taught law at undergraduate level at the University of Ulster in Jordanstown during her time in Northern Ireland, giving her a breadth of experience before joining the North East Circuit.
- Miss Lennon regularly gives CPD accredited seminars and lectures in her areas of expertise to solicitors, counsel and to Local Authorities.
