Marika Bell
Barrister | Family Law
Year of Call: 1991
Profile:
Marika Bell is a family law specialist with 30 years’ experience of all types of cases involving children in both private law and public law proceedings.
In public law care proceedings she is regularly instructed in cases involving allegations of non-accidental injury, particularly cases involving complex medical evidence. Her experience includes cases where fabricated illness, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse and neglect are alleged. She represents parents, children, extended family members and local authorities and regularly assists clients with additional mental health needs or learning disabilities, including matters in which the Official Solicitor has been appointed.
In private law cases, Marika’s experience includes applications for Child Arrangements Orders and enforcement of those orders, leave to remove children from the jurisdiction, intractable disputes in which Guardians have been appointed by the Court and complex cases involving allegations of sexual, physical and emotional harm. Marika has also been instructed to deal with Forced Marriage Protection Orders and cases involving domestic violence.
Marika has built a reputation for combining thorough preparation with sound advice and an approach that is simultaneously sensitive and tenacious. Marika aims to alleviate the stress of proceedings for her clients with a calm and empathic approach and a continuity of representation wherever possible.
She also advises and represents clients directly through Public Access.
Notable cases:
Re A (Children) [2012] EWCA Civ 185
Professional Qualifications
- Member of the Family Law Bar Association