Dafydd Griffiths
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 3 : Family: Children
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Band 3
About
Provided by Dafydd Griffiths
Practice Areas
Dafydd is a child care practitioner with expertise in all areas of both public law (including NAHI, FFI and sexual abuse) and private law, including external/internal relocation, FLA 1996 work, implacable hostility, parental alienation, expert psychiatric/psychological opinion, substance misuse (drug and alcohol), mental health issues. LGBT + parenting work.
Cases: Re J (a child)[2012] EWHCC 3353 (fam), O – M (children)[2009] EWCA Civ 1405, A Local Authority v J [2008] EWHC 1484 (fam).
Career
Called 1997. Dafydd started his career at 7 Bedford Row as a Common law Barrister and has an understanding of the criminal aspects of cases. He is often brought in to cases where there may be a Quasi – Criminal/fact finding aspect to them. Dafydd has appeared at all levels of Court (save the Supreme Court).
Professional Memberships
Gray’s Inn, FLBA
Dafydd has run a PLO course (Butterworths), lectured on private law updates (RELATE) and undertaken in - house public law courses for Solicitor firms. LEDLET (Lord Edmund Davies Legal Educ Trust) mentor, a mentor for the Middle Temple Access to the Bar Award Placement and has sat as a Judge for the Welsh Legal Awards.
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Personal
Dafydd is a fluent Welsh speaker. He is married with one child.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Dafydd Griffiths is a children barrister whose practice encompasses proceedings in both the public and private spheres. He is particularly experienced in issues of parental alienation, as well as cases involving serious abuse and complex medical evidence, in which his criminal law background comes to the fore.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Dafydd remains a go-to for complex children work, particularly when cases include an aspect of parental alienation."
"Dafydd has a very good manner with clients. He is very approachable, which puts the clients at ease, and he shows good attention to detail."
"He is outstanding and his knowledge of law is encyclopaedic."
"Dafydd remains a go-to for complex children work, particularly when cases include an aspect of parental alienation."
"Dafydd has a very good manner with clients. He is very approachable, which puts the clients at ease, and he shows good attention to detail."
"He is outstanding and his knowledge of law is encyclopaedic."