Joanna Dodson QC (5 September 1945 – 23 August 2020) was a British

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, specialising in family law. Dodson began her career at the chambers of

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QC, before becoming Head of Chambers at ''Fourteen'' (14 Gray's Inn Square); she ended her career at 33 Bedford Row. Having been

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(qualified as a barrister) in 1971, she took silk (appointed Queen's Counsel) in 1993. Among notable cases, she represented the parents of Victoria Climbié at the associated public inquiry, and the children of the appellant in ZH (Tanzania) v Secretary of State for the Home Office

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She was named among the top recipients of

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in 2004 and 2005. She was a graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge University.

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