Frida Dalhqvist

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Frida Dahlqvist is an experienced, much-requested family barrister with a strong practice in care proceedings and private law children disputes.

Experienced in representing vulnerable clients, Frida is also highly effective when cross-examining vulnerable witnesses including children. She has completed the FLBA’s "Advocacy and the Vulnerable" Training.

Frida receives plaudits as a highly effective and approachable barrister who works collaboratively with her professional clients to ensure continuity and efficiency from the issuing of proceedings through to their conclusion. Frida is skilled in giving forceful and necessary advice to lay clients whilst being empathic and supportive. Her style of advocacy is thorough, forensic and impactful.

Frida moved from Sweden to the UK in 2006 to undertake her legal training and completed a dissertation in the LLB Law (Hons) degree on children’s legal rights and children’s status as national and international citizens. Her LLM Law focused on international human rights, gender laws and the state, children's rights, legal aspects of education and international human rights of women. Her dissertation addressed the legal rights of young girls internationally, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child. She studied her Bar Finals whilst working as a Costs Advocate at Taylor Rose.

Frida has worked for CRIN (Child Right International Network), researching child specific legal aid clinics in the UK and internationally, aiming to create an international network of clinics and a guide for how they should be run. Frida previously researched for CRIN the effects of payment-by-results policies on children and children’s rights.