Drawing on her doctoral research and two decades at the family Bar, Celestine Greenwood argues that the public law family justice system urgently needs better data — and that without it, the reform that children and families need cannot happen.
On the International Day of Families 2025, Celestine Greenwood sets out a principle that her practice and research compel her to state plainly: poverty should never be a reason for separating families. The separation of children from their families on economic grounds is a human rights violation.
On Care Day 2022, Celestine Greenwood reflects on what it means to be a family lawyer whose work determines the futures of children in the care system — and on the obligations we all share toward those children.
Drawing on 20 years at the family Bar and her LLM research in international human rights, Celestine Greenwood asks whether the public law family justice system is genuinely serving the children and families it exists to protect — and argues for a fundamental rethink.