Richard White
Children, Care, Adoption and Abduction
Richard White qualified as a Solicitor in 1971. He is a Consultant to the firm and specialises in advising a number of charities in respect of their work relating to children and also undertakes private client work on all matters under the Children Act 1989, the Adoption Act 1976, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and any other area of law relating to the welfare of children.
In 1986 Richard established the firm of White & Sherwin with his Partner Michael Sherwin, a niche firm specialising solely in the law relating to children. In April 2007 Richard White joined McMillan Williams as a Consultant.
Richard has been a member of the Law Society Children Panel since its inception; he is a Member of the Law Society Sub-Committee for Children and of the Committee of the Association of Lawyers for Children. Richard is the Secretary of the Michael Sieff Foundation. Richard is a part-time Chairman of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. He is Editor of Clarke Hall and Morrison, an encyclopaedia on the law relating to children, since 1985, co author of three editions of White, Carr and Lowe, a guide to the Children Act 1989 and was responsible for the publication of two editions of ‘Significant Harm’, an inter-disciplinary work on child protection.
Outside work Richard enjoys all forms of sport, especially watching and playing cricket, and spending time with his family.
