Elisabeth Traugott

Overview

Elisabeth is particularly skilled at finding-of-fact hearings and regularly tries cases with extremely serious allegations, to include rape, non-fatal strangulation, coercive and controlling behaviour, physical abuse, economic abuse and faith-based abuse.

In her appellate practice, Elisabeth is adept at formulating and drafting grounds of appeal and skeleton arguments that reflect a firm grasp of the development and trajectory of the law on domestic abuse in particular.

Overview

In addition to her domestic abuse work, Elisabeth has advocated successfully for and against relocation applications and has experience litigating applications for occupation orders, transfers of tenancies, section 91(14) orders, and cases arising under High Court inherent jurisdiction.

She has a particular interest in cases where victims are portrayed as “alienators”, deemed “intractably hostile” or “obstructive”, and/or are subjected to assessment by unregulated or professional experts.

Overview

Elisabeth represents parents in care proceedings, ensuring that cases are fairly brought and evidence is robustly tested.

Overview

• Father v Mother (Welfare: DARVO) [2026] EWFC 236(B) (Newport, HHJ)
• Re A (A Minor: Preliminary Issue: Proceeding in the absence of a party) [2025] EWFC 346
• Re A (A Minor: Proceeding in the absence of a party: Application to set aside) (No. 2) [2025] EWFC 347
• Re A (A Minor: Domestic Abuse: Fact  Finding) (No. 3) [2025] EWFC 351
• Re A (A Minor: Domestic Abuse: Welfare) (No 4) [2026] EWFC 152
• Martin v the Father & Oth [2026] EWFC 151 – Led by Anthony Metzer KC in a case before Moradifar, HHJ (sitting as a High Court Judge) giving rise to a series of procedural and substantive judgments where the underlying allegation was that the mother’s ex-partner organised an attempt on her life.  
• Re E (A Child) [2025] EWFC 423 (Henke, J) – Led by Anthony Metzer KC in an ongoing complex High Court case before Henke J involving death of a child.
• Re E (A Child) (Disclosure to Regulator and Naming of a Witness in a Judgment) [2025] EWCA Civ 1563 (King, LJ) – Represented a mother in an appeal sought by a fact witness, the child’s treating psychotherapist, to preserve her anonymity.
• GI v K [2026] EWHC 480 (Fam) (Lieven, J) – Acted as trial counsel and drafted skeleton argument for appeal. Acted again as trial counsel for the mother in September 2026.
• Re a Child (No 3: Enforcement, False allegations of abuse and transfer of residence) [2025] EWFC 437(B) (Willsteed, HHJ)
• TM v TF [2024] EWHC 2786 (Fam) (Cusworth J)
• Summers & Ors v White & Ors [2024] EWFC 182 (Moradifar, HHJ sitting as a High Court Judge)
• W v J [2024] EWFC 352 (B)  (HHJ Greenfield) – Acted as trial counsel at first instance and drafted skeleton argument for the successful appeal by Dr Charlotte Proudman challenging the progression of contact where the father was a registered sex offender and serial rapist.
• A v K (Appeal: Fact-finding: PD12J) (Cobb, J)
• AA v BB [2024] EWHC 934 (Fam) (Judd J)
• K v A [2023] EWFC 325 (B) (Talbott, HHJ)
• A v B (Appeal: Domestic Abuse) [2023] EWHC 1499 (Fam) (Poole J)
• SR v OR [2022] EWHC 3479 (Cohen J)