Olamide Ogunrinade

Year of Call: 2004

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Olamide specialises in family law with an emphasis on all areas that relate to children in public and private law matters.

Olamide accepts instructions from the public as a member of the Public Access Scheme.

Family Law: Children's Law

Overview

Olamide is a compassionate family law advocate and has experience representing parents who are vulnerable due to learning disabilities or their mental health. She has experience in cases where there has been a need for intermediaries and representing parties where English is not their first language.

Care and adoption proceedings

Olamide’s practice involves care proceedings under the Children Act 1989 and adoption proceedings under the Adoption and Children Act 2002. She provides representation from initial application through to multi-day fact-finding and final hearings where parents are facing allegations of unreasonable chastisement, neglect, abuse, non-accidental injury; or where there are concerns about a parent’s mental health and drug/alcohol use. She has represented clients where paternity has been called into question and any subsequent applications to declare their parentage.

Olamide has represented parents seeking leave to oppose the adoption and at fully contested hearings where they have successfully obtained leave to oppose the making of adoption orders. She also has experience with applications for secure accommodation.

Olamide has spent some time in-house at a local authority, giving her in-depth knowledge of the workings of children’s services and informing her representation of parents.

Private children’s law

Olamide is instructed in cases where there are disputes about where children should live and how much contact they should have with a non-resident parent, prohibited steps and specific issue orders.

She provides representation in cases involving allegations of domestic abuse, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and where there is a need to appoint an r16.4 Guardian. In a recent case, Olamide successfully sought a barring order preventing a party from making any further applications in respect of contact until the child attains the age of 16 pursuant to section 91(14) of the Children’s Act 1989.

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Family Law: Domestic Abuse

Overview

Olamide regularly represents clients in Family Law Act 1996 proceedings, including matters involving allegations of serious domestic abuse. She has experience in seeking or responding to applications for non- molestation orders and occupation orders through to fact-finding hearings and fully contested final hearings.

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Family Law: Divorce and Family Finances

Overview

Olamide is developing a practice in the area of matrimonial finance. She has represented parties at FDA’s, FDR’s, and Final Hearings. She successfully represented a party seeking to enforce an order to sell the matrimonial home which had not been complied with for nearly a decade.

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Olamide Ogunrinade

Notable Cases & News

Tom Wainwright successfully appeals finding of contempt of court on basis of lack of due process

Tom Wainwright is a member of the Garden Court Criminal Defence and Criminal Appeals Teams.

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Former employee sues Arsenal Football Club for unfair dismissal over ‘inflammatory’ social media posts

Franck Magennis, of the Garden Court Chambers Employment Law Team, represents the Claimant, Mark Bonnick, instructed by the European Legal Support Center (ELSC).

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Hossein Zahir KC acts for defendant in high-profile espionage case

Hossein Zahir KC of Garden Court Chambers, instructed by Lloyds PR Solicitors, appeared for Ivan Stoyanov.

Thursday 22 May 2025

Ali Bandegani and Nadia O’Mara shortlisted for LALY Awards 2025

We are delighted to congratulate Ali Bandegani and Nadia O'Mara of Garden Court Chambers who have been shortlisted as finalists for the 2025 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Awards (LALYs).

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Government concedes unlawful Windrush deportation: Winston Knight to return after 12 years of destitution

Nicola Braganza KC of the Garden Court Public Law Team and Miranda Butler of Landmark Chambers represented Mr Knight, instructed by Nina Camp and Albert Cammack of Duncan Lewis Solicitors.

Monday 19 May 2025

Asylum seeker able to continue university studies after injunction obtained from High Court

Alex Schymyck of the Garden Court Immigration & Public Law Teams acted for the Claimant, instructed Derek Bernardi and Colin Vanelli of Lawstop.

Friday 16 May 2025

Awards

Champion of Justice Award, London Legal Support Trust; 2014

Blackstone’s Entrance Exhibition Scholar, Middle Temple; 2003

Professional Memberships

  • The Honourable Society of Middle Temple
  • Black Barristers Network (Committee Member)
  • Family Law Bar Association
  • Women in Family Law

Languages

  • Yoruba, a Nigerian dialect (Conversational)
  • French (Conversational)

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