Laura Coapes

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Laura graduated with a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Leeds and completed a Graduate Diploma in Law and the Bar Professional Training Course at Northumbria University. She was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 2012, and commenced pupillage at Trinity Chambers in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a tenant at Trinity Chambers, specialising in Family and Civil Practice. View her profile here.

Laura is module tutor for Civil Litigation and teaches on the Drafting, Opinion Writing and Family Law modules on the Bar Professional Training Course.

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Key Publications

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An ‘instrument of harm’? Where parental conflict meets armed conflict: a children’s rights focussed analysis of the judicial interpretation of the ‘grave risk of harm’ defence under Article 13(b) of the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction in situations of war., Coapes, L., Speed, A. 7 Mar 2026, International Handbook of Child Protection: Laws, Rights, Policies and Practices - Child Protection and Family Conflict, Springer
Covid-19 and the family courts: key practitioner findings in applications for domestic violence remedy orders, Speed, A., Richardson, K., Thomson, C., Coapes, L. 1 Sep 2021, In: Child and Family Law Quarterly
Covid-19 and the Family Courts: Key Practitioner Findings in Children Cases, Richardson, K., Speed, A., Thomson, C., Coapes, L. 2021, In: Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
WCFLCR Poster: Section 20 Children Act 1989 - Co-operation, Compromise or Catastrophe?: Consideration of the postives, negatives and best practice in care proceedings, Richardson, K., Coapes, L. 8 Jun 2017, World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights 2017