Caroline Korah

Expertise

Caroline carries out complex children cases, both domestic and international, with particular experience in cross-border disputes. She is approachable, straight-talking, empathetic and unpretentious.  She conducts a wide variety of cases ranging from international family disputes, child arrangements, and relocation matters.  Caroline’s expertise also covers parental child abduction (Hague and non-Hague), proceedings under the inherent jurisdiction, wardship applications under the 1996 and 1980 Hague Conventions, enforcement and recognition of foreign orders, as well as injunctions and protection orders.

Accolades

• Recommended - Doyle’s Guide (2025-6): Listed as a “Recommended” lawyer in Doyle’s Guide: Leading Children Lawyers, London
• Top Recommended - Spear’s 500 (2025): Listed as a “Top Recommended” lawyer in the Spear’s 500 Family Lawyers rankings
• Next Generation Partner - Legal 500 (2024): ‘Caroline Korah is the perfect balance of empathetic and tough. Fiercely intelligent and sensible. Clients love her and she’s a pleasure to work for.’
• Rising Star - Legal 500 (2021): Caroline Korah “is one of the best and brightest associates around. She has a lovely manner with clients and is clearly destined to follow in the footsteps of the other partners in her team.”
• Rising Star - Legal 500 (2020): "Caroline Korah is a highly dedicated lawyer who fearlessly represents her clients’ interest".
• Legal 500 (2018-2019): Caroline Korah "works tirelessly for her clients providing practical and supportive legal advice".

Education

Caroline studied Civil Law at l’Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.  She obtained a First Class Honours degree in Law from the University of Westminster, London, England, and completed the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law (now known as The University of Law), London, England. 

Career

Caroline trained and worked at a leading specialist Tier 1 Family firm in London from 2010 to 2021.  She qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and into the firm’s award-winning international children department headed by the late Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE, QC (Hon).  Caroline specialised in proceedings relating to the international movement of children, wardship, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, stranded spouses, together with private children and public law.  Her commitment was exemplified in her representing parents, children, victims of domestic and honour based violence, and vulnerable adults.  She also advised in divorce and applications for financial remedy.  Caroline has acted for high net worth individuals and the publicly funded alike, and conducted advocacy in cases before the Family Court and the High Court.

Of note, Caroline acted for a mother in child abduction proceedings following Russia’s ratification of the 1996 Hague Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children, in an application made in the Russian court for the children’s return – the first case to make use of the 1996 Hague Convention for child abduction in England as well as in Russia.

Caroline undertook a secondment in 2018 at The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), through its Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) in Hong Kong SAR, China.  She took part in the organising of the HCCH’s 125th anniversary global event in Hong Kong.

Caroline was a Rapporteur for the 2nd International Family Law & Practice Conference “Parentage, Equality & Gender” (2013) and also a Rapporteur for the triennial International Family Law & Practice Conference “Culture, Dispute Resolution and the Modernised Family” (2016).

Caroline is a Commissioner of Oaths for Québec, Canada (Commissaire à l’assermentation) since 2010.

LANGUAGES

Caroline is fluent in French and Spanish.

MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS

• The Times (2025): Poland faces legal action after mother abducts children from UK
• The Telegraph (2024): “Our former partners abducted our children and Brexit has stopped us getting them back”
• The Lead (2024): "Trauma Factories": How paralysed family courts are destroying lives

Testimonials

‘Caroline Korah is an absolute star at the very top end of the private children law world in London. She is extraordinarily hard working, very client-driven, has impeccable judgement in relation to likely outcome and risks and is very responsive to emergency situations as and when they arise.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah is extremely dedicated to her clients. She works astonishingly hard to get the best possible outcome for those that she represents. Her statements are detailed and comprehensive. Clients know when they walk into court that their case has been prepared thoroughly.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah leads the children team and brings a wealth of experience and excellent leadership to a very talented team.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah is a standout lawyer with excellent technical ability and particular expertise in cases with an international dimension.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah is highly qualified in her representation and advice to clients. She is pragmatic and very technically astute.’ - Legal 500

‘I’m extremely grateful to Vardags for their support during my family case. A special thank you to Mia Cooman and Caroline for their professionalism, care, and dedication throughout. Thanks to their hard work, we achieved a successful outcome that exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend them to anyone needing expert family law support.’ - Client

‘Caroline Korah’s clients trust her completely, and it is easy to see why: she combines formidable skill with a manner that puts people at ease even in the most challenging circumstances.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah and her team bring an exceptional combination of enthusiasm and tenacity to every case they handle. They leave no stone unturned in preparing their cases, approaching every detail with rigor and care. Caroline’s sophisticated grasp of the law is matched by a genuine flair in how she applies it — she has the ability to find creative, well-judged solutions that consistently inspire confidence.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline is very sharp; her ideas and suggestions are exactly what I am looking for. She can see the whole picture and gives solutions straight away. Unlike some other firms, including Tier One and Tier Two solicitors whom I talked to and worked with before, they talked a lot, not the sharp points to take action; everything is also too slow, with too wide options, a lot of uncertainties, and not focused.’ - Legal 500

‘I am very happy with the legal service provided by Caroline Korah for her dedication, performance, and service. After the initial meeting with Caroline, I am very pleased to have found her and instructed her to represent me for court proceedings. She is very sharp, dedicated, and trying her best to support. Straightaway over the phone during our conversation, she can grasp the essentials and provide feedback and action points; she gave me very clear and important advice on how to move things forward. Her input and advice were always from her heart, and she always found good solutions, which was exactly what I needed. Later, to save costs for me, she arranged for her assistant, Imogen, to join in; she’s also very dedicated and did her best to give me advice and support. I am very pleased with both of them.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah is deeply invested in the work she does for clients, but always keeps her attention on the impact on children, even if this means giving clients hard advice that might run contrary to what they say they want out of proceedings.’ - Legal 500

‘I am always impressed by how child-focused the head of children, Caroline Korah, is on cases.’ - Legal 500

‘I had Caroline Korah on my case, who was outstanding, a fountain of knowledge and a wealth of experience in the Children’s domain. Caroline, Imogen Fallon, and the team were superb in every way. They are extremely diligent and professional, providing the best advice, strategies, and guidance. They were very supportive, very caring and considerate for me as an individual throughout the case of Child Arrangements proceedings that ran the best part of 4 years.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah is by far one of the best children practitioners out there. Not only is she incredibly knowledgeable, calm under pressure, and highly organised, but she is a genuinely lovely person to boot. She is clear and calm with her clients, but the same follows through with her opponents. She focuses on what is important and gets results. Her judgment is second to none.’ - Legal 500

‘I have worked with Caroline Korah on a number of cases over the years, where she has looked after the children side and I the financial remedy side. She remains a force to be reckoned with. She is robust in her advice to clients, doesn’t shy away from giving advice they don’t want to hear, and she knows when to settle. She is experienced and expert, with heaps of common sense. A delight to deal with, always.’ - Legal 500

‘Caroline Korah is a class act in family law. Her expertise and experience in international child law cases give her gravitas and well-earned respect in both international and domestic private child law disputes.’ - Legal 500

REPORTED CASES

• X v Y [2025] EWFC 243 (B) (10 July 2025)
• AB v CD & Ors [2025] EWHC 1563 (Fam)
• HX v A Local authority and Ors (Application to Revoke Adoption Order) [2020] EWHC 1287 (Fam)
• MG v JH [2018] EWHC 3477 (Fam)
• Re D and Others (Children) [2017] EWHC 284 (Fam)
• In the Matter of D (Children) (Child Abduction: Practice) [2016] EWHC 504 (Fam)
• J (Children) [2015] EWCA Civ 1019
• Re C-W (A Child) [2015] EWCA Civ 1272
• Neustadt v Neustadt (Child Abduction) [2014] EWHC 4307
• LC v RRL & Ors [2014] EWFC 8
• Cambra v Jones and Palacin [2014] EWHC 913 (Fam)
• Cambra v Jones and Palacin[2014] EWHC 2264 (Fam)
• LC (Children) and LC (Children) (No. 2) [2014] UKSC 1
• LC (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1058
• LCG v RL [2013] EWHC 1383 (Fam)
• O v O [2013] EWHC 2970 (Fam)
• Re FT and NT (Children)[2013] EWHC 850 (Fam)
• AI v MT (Alternative Dispute Resolution) [2013] EWHC 3954 (Fam)

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