Kevin Skinner

Executive Partner

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Kevin is very popular with clients and really knows this area of law.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

Kevin is a big name in the field and has expertise in more than one heavyweight area of public law.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

He is absolutely magnificent.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

He deals with the most complex work and does it brilliantly.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

Kevin’s written advocacy is absolutely brilliant and on par with leading counsel.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

He is highly committed to his clients and pursues their cases ferociously and with total commitment.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

Kevin shows excellent judgement in his cases, knowing which arguments will be most effective.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

He is extremely thorough, provides sound legal advice, has excellent client care skills and is exceptional in applying legal principle.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

His breadth of experience allows him to look at the case from all angles and he really fights for his clients.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

Kevin is a master tactician and very well-regarded for international children work.

- Chambers and Partners, 2025

Kevin Skinner knows everything about international family law cases. He acts for parents and children and has been involved in some of the key cutting edge cases.

- Legal 500, 2025

Kevin Skinner is highly experienced with litigation - so can be relied on to take decisions about how to run a case including all the practicalities involved with appeals and applications. His knowledge of the law and judgments of the merits is also so sure that it is a pleasure to work with him. This is not a statement I would offer for many of my instructing solicitors.

- Kevin Skinner in Chambers and Partners, 2023

About

Kevin has expertise in international custody disputes, child abduction, matrimonial proceedings and care proceedings. He is assisting in developing Goodman Ray’s growing practice for alternative families, advising on civil partnership and co-parenting arrangements and surrogacy. Kevin advises in respect of legal issues arising from the creation and implementation of surrogacy arrangements and The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.

Kevin has a particular interest in Children Act applications including contact and residence disputes, internal relocation and leave to remove from the jurisdiction. When instructed in care proceedings, Kevin’s primary focus is on cases involving non-accidental injury and cases with concurrent criminal proceedings. Kevin also represents people in Court of Protection proceedings and can advise regarding legal protections for vulnerable adults.

He is a regular speaker and lecturer within the United Kingdom, having recently given talks to the ALC (Association of Children Lawyers), NSPCC, NIA project and IMECE. He is on the Amnesty International speakers (on issues around death penalty and stop violence against women); he is also a regular contributor to Jordan’s Family Law and is frequently asked to comment on cases by LexisNexis. Kevin is a member of Resolution, Human Rights Lawyers Association, Association of Children Lawyers, Young Legal Aid Lawyers, Amnesty International and the Lesbian and Gay Lawyer Association.

He joined Goodman Ray in October 2006 and became a partner in June 2015.

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