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 the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Families, Celestine Greenwood examines the threats facing the modern family: the law’s failure to keep pace with changing structures, the mounting crisis of poverty, and the existential challenge of climate change.
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.
Writing in Counsel Magazine, Celestine Greenwood — an exhausted family practitioner — argues that the family law system is in crisis, and that failing to recognise this demeans the extraordinary efforts of all who work within it.
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.
Following Re H-N and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, Celestine Greenwood examines the discordant ways in which the criminal, private law children, and public law children systems treat domestic abuse — and calls for a fundamental rethink.
Writing in Today’s Family Lawyer, Celestine Greenwood examines whether the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 — the first statute to define domestic abuse in English law — is truly the transformational legislation its supporters hoped for.