Zoe Fleetwood

Spear’s Review

Zoë Fleetwood joined Mills & Reeve’s family and children team from Dawson Cornwell at the tail-end of 2020 to head up its national children practice.

Having dealt with cases that involve everything from child abduction to wardship, domestic violence, forced marriage, special guardianship and adoption and inter-country adoption, Fleetwood has considerable expertise in child matters. In 2016, Fleetwood gained media attention for her successful representation of a terminally ill 14-year-old girl who wished to be cryogenically preserved. 

‘I’m not just a family solicitor, but also a strategist and human rights adviser,’ she has said of her practice. Indeed, peers have highlighted Fleetwood’s ‘clarity of thought’ and her ‘highly supportive and engaging manner’.

Adviser Profile

Zoë Fleetwood is a partner and head of child law at Mills & Reeve LLP. Her caseload includes child abduction, wardship, domestic violence, surrogacy and adoption including intercountry adoption and Hague intercountry adoptions. Zoë is known for her specialism in high conflict cases and for representing children in proceedings directly. 

Ranked in various directories, Zoë is described as being a name to note. ‘She is senior and experienced, and has helped to shape the modern law on relocation.’

Zoë has represented parties in numerous reported cases, including: 

■ In the matter of F (A child) (International Relocation Cases) [2015] EWCA Civ 882 (the most important case on international relocation in a decade.