Sinead Larkin graduated from Queens University Belfast in 1995 with a LL.B. Honours Degree in Law and thereafter attended the Institute of Professional Legal Studies at Queens University Belfast Sinead qualified as a Solicitor in 1997.
On qualification, Sinead chose to specialise exclusively in the practice of all aspects of family law. Sinead has dedicated her entire career to this area of law and is considered to be a senior practitioner in the field of family law.
Sinead spent some of her early career practicing family law in Dublin and having returned to Belfast has spent the vast majority of her career working and serving the needs of the people of North Belfast where her practice is based. That said, Sinead’s reputation as a Family Law Solicitor is extensive, and Sinead acts for clients throughout the jurisdiction and beyond with a sizable international clientele from as far a field as the Middle East to North America.
Sinead advises on all aspects of Family Law to include divorce and the division of the capital assets of the relationship, clean break agreements, collaborative law, children’s law, wardship proceedings, child abduction and Hague Convention proceedings, Court Orders to protect the person and regulate who can reside in the home, Injunctions, civil partnerships etc.
Sinead has held a number of offices as is reflective of her standing among her Family Law colleagues namely secretary of the Association of Family Law Solicitors for Children and as a member of the Belfast Solicitors Association where she sat on the Family Law Sub Committee. Sinead has also previously acted in an advisory role to the Northern Ireland Law Society in relation to Family Law matters.
Sinead is a long standing member of the Children Order Panel which is a specialist panel of Children Order Solicitors approved and accredited by the Northern Ireland Law Society. In 2012 Sinead was selected on to the prestigious panel of Solicitors appointed to represent children by the Northern Ireland Guardian Ad Litem Agency in Public Law proceedings pursuant to the Children (NI) Order 1995. Sinead is also a member of the NI Collaborative Law Association membership of which offers Sinead the opportunity to assist couples to resolve the breakdown of their relationship in the least contentious means possible.
For many years Sinead has worked with Women’s Aid Outreach Workers in North Belfast to provide advice, assistance and representation to women and their children at a most vulnerable time in their lives. This is perhaps the area of work which Sinead find’s most rewarding as it provides an opportunity to effect real and immediate change in a family’s or individual’s life.
Sinead is totally committed to ensuring that each of her client’s receives her individual care and attention. No one is more conscious, than Sinead, that the breakdown of a relationship, the unravelling of ones personal or family life, the removal of one’s child or being deprived of contact with a child represents the lowest point in a client’s life and every effort to support and guide a client through the legal process is provided by Sinead and her staff
Away from business, Sinead is married with 3 sons; sits on the Board of Governors of St Marys Christian Brothers Grammar School, is actively involved in the local community and is a member of the GAA.
