Pauline Moulder

In the increasingly competitive market for legal services, Dere Street stands out as one of the leading barristers’ chambers in the country with 18 members of Chambers ranked in the major legal directories.

Dere Street is a modern, innovative and forward-looking set, comprising of almost 90 barristers, 4 of whom are Queen’s Counsel. It offers specialist advocacy, advisory and drafting expertise across a wide spectrum of practice areas and at every level of seniority. Its aim is to provide the highest standards of service and to anticipate and respond to its clients’ needs.

At 33 Broad Chare, Newcastle upon Tyne, and at our premises at 14 Toft Green, York we provide first class facilities for conferences and consultations, lectures and seminars, mediation and video-conferencing so that we can cater for our clients’ bespoke requirements.

Pauline Moulder

Pauline Moulder is recommended by Chambers and Partners as a leading senior junior in children work, and this year she is also quoted in the Legal 500 who say ‘her style of advocacy is professional, thorough, fierce and effective’. Although Ms Moulder accepts instructions in all aspects of children work (as well as Court of Protection work, forced marriage and honour based violence and divorce), her specialisation is in public law, particularly the more complex cases. She has a depth of experience and knowledge in those cases which involve, e.g., an infant death in the family, difficult and conflicting medical evidence, induced/fabricated illness and children with complex needs.

Renowned for her ability to master her brief and to think quickly and imaginatively, Ms Moulder is a skilled communicator who gives sensible and pragmatic advice. Her advocacy skills are best summed up by a senior circuit judge who described Ms Moulder’s cross examination in a complex public law matter as “the best cross examination I have ever heard in a family case”. Her written documents are excellent.

Ms Moulder has a wide-ranging practice, acting for local authorities, parents and family members, children, children’s guardians and the Official Solicitor. She is regularly instructed to provide written and oral advice to local authorities and other parties in complex care matters and to advise private clients in residence and contact matters. Whilst Ms Moulder’s practice predominantly focuses on cases in the High Court and the county court, she accepts instructions for matters in the FPC.

Cases undertaken include inflicted injury on a baby with a genetic disorder, death of an infant in the family (2), successful rehabilitation of children to a parent with a learning disability, contested overseas adoption together with a number of cases involving physical and sexual abuse. She has also instructed in a case involving historic induced/fabricated illness and poisoning, a case involving an infant death, two cases involving disputed medical evidence of bruising and fractures, a case involving the physical and sexual abuse of the children of same sex parents and a case involving inter-familial and generational sexual abuse.

Ms Moulder has given a number of lectures in family law, most recently on the human rights aspects of local authority decision-making.