Susan Snook

Susan joined Signature Law in March 2026 as a family solicitor bringing approximately 9 years post qualification experience within the areas of Childcare and Family Law. Susan deals with Child Arrangements Orders including ‘live with’ and ‘spend time with’ Orders, Enforcement of Child Arrangement Orders, Prohibited Steps Orders and Specific Issue Orders, including relocation and change of surname, Non-Molestation and Occupation Orders, Divorce and Finances - both under the old and new law. Susan also deals with public law matters, more specifically Care Orders, Supervision Orders and Emergency Protection Orders. She has represented parents, grandparents and other family members / friends. She also has experience of working for the local authority and can therefore view the case from the local authority perspective and plan the case for her clients accordingly. Susan also has experience in Placement Orders; Special Guardianship Order Applications; Secure Accommodation Applications; Deprivation of Liberty Applications; Pre-proceedings work (known as Public Law Outline) and Social Services involvement with families to include Child Protection and Child in Need, High Court work, Wardship Applications, Applications under the court’s Inherent Jurisdiction, Child Abduction, International Contact (Art. 21), Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriages. Susan has experience of working on cases involving allegations of sexual abuse and non-accidental injury, most such cases involving the overlap of criminal proceedings. She has supported clients in which allegations of Female Genital Mutilation were made, resulting in their children being removed, but the allegations were ultimately proven unfounded. She has also represented clients with mental health challenges and those with disabilities of various forms, along with clients from all nationalities and cultures. Susan has spent most of her career advocating for clients within London and the South-East. Susan believes and prides herself on knowing that her job is a vocation and she will fight passionately for her clients, and this has in some instances resulting in her returning to court on many occasions within a short period of time to fight an application of the local authority for removal of young children from their mother and succeeding every time. She will personally ensure that she is available to support her clients whenever possible. Her clients describe her as kind, caring and very approachable.