Jo-Anna Jellings
Senior Associate
Jo-Anna Jellings is a Senior Associate in our Family team.
Jo-Anna has particular expertise in complex children matters and fertility law and is part of the Children and Modern Families Team. Jo-Anna has extensive experience in matters involving serious allegations from domestic abuse to alienation, parental relocation, internal and external relocation applications, Special Guardianship orders and international child abduction.
Jo-Anna deals with matters involving fertility law including domestic and international surrogacy. Jo-Anna also has significant experience of private children cases where the Local Authority become involved.
Jo-Anna advises on cases involving all aspects of relationship breakdown, including divorce and financial matters and cases with international elements and complex issues including committal, enforcement and interim issues.
Jo-Anna assists a wide range of clients from different backgrounds within both the UK and abroad.
Jo-Anna has practised Family Law for over a decade and has been involved in a wide variety of cases.
Within this, she has been involved in a number of reported cases in respect of the interpretation and application of the law relating to surrogacy, as well as the impact of litigation misconduct within financial remedy proceedings.
She is a member of the Young Resolution Committee and a member of the Child Abduction Lawyers Association.
Jo-Anna is well regarded for her determined approach to the most challenging and sensitive cases and frequently receives praise from clients and counsel for her unyielding commitment to her clients.
Jo-Anna has also produced a number of academic and press comment pieces together with contributing to publications on divorce, financial settlements, alternative families and matters relating to children.
Jo-Anna joined us in 2023 and is based in our Manchester office.
