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Chloe Lee is a Family law and Court of Protection barrister specialising in cases involving the Deprivation of Liberty of children, young people and adults. She has a particular interest in representing vulnerable clients and ensuring that they are able to participate fully in proceedings.
Chloe is ranked as a ‘Rising Star’ by the Legal 500 for Court of Protection: Health and Welfare.
Her expertise spans a range of complex issues including; serious medical treatment, physical and chemical restraint, coercion and control, capacity/consent, best interests’ disputes, contact restrictions, and challenges to contact arrangements, as well as cases involving Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act crossovers. She regularly deals with transitional cases for young people in the care system who are moving under the jurisdiction of the Court of Protection.
Chloe is frequently instructed to act on behalf of NHS bodies, local authorities, children, family members and protected parties.
Chloe is the co-author of a book recently published by Bloomsbury ‘The Deprivation of Liberty of Children and Young People’. She also edits the Mental Capacity Act 2005 chapter of the Butterworths Family Law Service alongside her colleague Pippa Pudney.
Coming from a Northern working-class background herself, Chloe is keen to promote wider access and diversity to the legal profession for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. She also has a strong commitment to pro-bono work.
Public Law Children
Court of Protection – Health and Welfare
Re RN (Deprivation of Liberty and Parental Consent) [2022] EWHC 2576 (Fam)
Chloe recently represented a father in the case of Re RN (Deprivation of Liberty and Parental Consent) [2022] EWHC 2576 (Fam)
She successfully opposed the Local Authority’s application for declarations under the inherent jurisdiction to authorise the deprivation of liberty of a 12-year-old girl in her father’s home, arguing that parental consent operated to render the child’s arrangements lawful. The High Court decided: “It follows from all that I have said that the restrictive care arrangements in place for RN are a proper and lawful exercise of parental responsibility. This amounts to a valid consent, with the consequence that the second limb of the established three stage test for what amounts to a deprivation of liberty is not met. In such circumstances, this Court need not make any High Court declaration authorising them. They are rendered lawful by the parental consent.”
F v M (Appeal: Fact Finding: Domestic Abuse: Adequate Reasons) [2023] EWFC 48
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewfc/2023/48
Knowles J was concerned with an appeal by a father of two children with whom he sought contact from findings of domestic abuse made against him – including anal and vaginal rape and coercive and controlling behaviour. Chloe appeared on behalf of the mother and successfully opposed the appeal.
- Butterworths Family Law Service Co-Editor for the chapter on the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Justice First Fellowship
- Legal Action Group
- Family Law Bar Association
- Resolution
- Chambers representative for Middle Temple
- Advocate (Formerly the Bar Pro Bono Unit)
- Young Legal Aid Lawyer Committee Member
- Access to Justice Foundation Yorkshire Committee Member
- Lexis Nexis, The Butterworths Family Law Journal – Co-editor of Chapter 6 – The Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- The Deprivation of Liberty of Children and Young People 2024 - Chloe Lee & Pippa Pudney - Bloomsbury Professional
- The Barrister Magazine, Hilary Term January 2021 - Reflecting on the past year in practice.
- Legal 500 2026 - Rising Star, Court of Protection and Community Care
- Legal 500 2025 - Rising Star, Court of Protection and Community Care - 'Chloe is direct in her advice and confident and clear in her advocacy.'
“Chloe Lee is ‘quick to grasp complex issues in Court of Protection matters, and works on her matters with great tenacity’, with a key focus on cases involving deprivation of liberty and forced marriage issues.”
- Rising Star - Legal 500 2025