Duncan Ranton

Chambers UK 2011: " ‘He is “conscientious, very sharp and totally up-to-date with developments in the field.”

Duncan specialises in all aspects of family law relating to children, including in particular issues arising from international child abduction and cross-border adoption, and is listed as a specialist in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500.

He is also dual qualified, having qualified first in Victoria, Australia in 1994 and again in this country in 2000. He is a regular contributor to a variety of legal periodicals.

As may be expected, Duncan undertakes a regular pilgrimage to Australia to visit family and friends. He enjoys quiz nights and trivia and, at the other extreme, gardening.

What the directories and clients say

• "conscientious, very sharp and totally up-to-date with developments in the field." - Chambers UK: A client's guide to the UK legal profession (2010)
• "This is an excellent result! It is more than I hoped for, it will surely make life easier and I think that I owe this to you. Thus, I'm grateful to you for all the effort and the support you have provided to this case. Thank you and congratuations for this superb outcome." – Client (2009)
• Many thanks on this significant result. I am indebted to you for your consummate professionalism and responsiveness in acting swiftly to help me...I expect to return to be with my children in the next few months. I am sincerely grateful." - Client (2009)

Professional Societies

• Resolution (London Region Committee member)
• Law Institute of Victoria
• Inter-country Adoption Lawyers' Association
• Anglo-Australasian Lawyers Society
• The Law Society

Further Information

• Dual qualification as a solicitor (English/Australian)
• Author of numerous articles with emphasis on international and inter-country adoption and child abduction

Reported Cases

• CF v KM [2010] EWHC 1754
• Holliday v Musa [2010] EWCA Civ 335
• Re S (Foreign Contact Order) [2009] EWCA Civ 993
• B (A child) [2007] EWCA Civ 1463
• E v E [2007] EWHC 276
• Best-v-Hesketh (CA) [2006] 1 FLR 593
• Re R (Abduction: Immigration Concerns) [2005] 1 FLR 33
• Re S (Child: Financial Provision) (CA) [2005] 2 FLR 94
• Re W (A Child) sub nom In Re H (A Minor) (Child Abduction: Mother's Asylum) (FD) [2003] 2 FLR 1105; [2003] Fam. Law 712; Times, August 8, 2003
• Re H (Children) (CA) [2002] EWCA Civ 1625
• Re B (Children)(Abduction: New Evidence) (CA) [2001] 2 FCR. 531
• Re B (Children) sub nom TB -v- JB (Abduction: Grave Risk of Harm) (CA) [2001] 2 FLR 515
• Re N (child Abduction) (Abduction: Habitual Residence) (FD) [2000] 2 FLR 899