A founding partner with over 20 years’ experience, Candy’s expertise encompasses a wide range of areas, including the firm’s specialist areas of family and criminal law.
She deals with sensitive and complex cases delivering an optimal service to her clients with professionalism and compassion. Candy represents clients in all manner of private and public family cases of all complexities including finding of fact hearings in the context of domestic abuse, psychological assessments, international child relocation, injunctions, residence and contact.
Candy’s representation in public law child care cases have led to children being placed with or remaining with parents or family members after complex proceedings. Candy is highly experienced and skilled in this area.
Candy’s advocacy skills in the family Court intersect with her established practice in criminal law, routinely appearing in both the Magistrate’s Court and Royal Court for trials and sentencings. Candy acts in all types of criminal cases including fraud, assault and drug importation and related drug trafficking confiscation matters. Candy has also acted in criminal appeals both in the Royal Court and the Court of Appeal with successful outcomes.
Candy is skilled at giving advice and support to clients at the Police Station after arrest, recognising that such advice at an early stage can be crucial to successful outcomes.
Candy attends hearings before the Child Youth and Community Tribunal and represents clients in proceedings before the Mental Health Review Tribunal.
Candy is fluent in French having graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in French in 1997 and having studied at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence. She qualified as a teacher at the Manchester Metropolitan University. After teaching, Candy studied law at the Nottingham Trent University and became an English barrister in 2005 further to studying at BPP Law School, London. After attaining Le Certificat d’Etudes Juridiques Normandes from I’Université de Caen and completing her Guernsey Bar examinations, she became a Guernsey Advocate in 2007. Candy is also an adjunct, teaching the syllabus for the Family Law Guernsey Bar examination.
