Christina Gorna
Hugely experienced, wise, with a truly engaging personality, Christina Gorna is unique in many ways. First, because she founded and was the only Head of Chambers in the whole of the West Country. Secondly, because her range of expertise is so vast. From Criminal Law and Contract Law to Entertainment, Negligence and Consumer Rights, her knowledge and experience is sought in London, Exeter and in the Midlands. But her essentially humane nature perhaps sees her function at her very best in matters of family law – custody, children’s rights and child abuse.
TELEVISION
Legal Troubleshooter on Westcountry TV; Panellist
on BBC Question Time
Advice Shop (TV Channel); BBC1 Advisor on Careering Ahead;
The Bar;
BBC1 The Verdict; and Kilroy; Central Weekend; The Time, the Place;
GMTV; Good Morning with Nick & Anne; Esther and Sky TV.
RADIO
Currently: Legal Radio Advice for the Morning Show on Liberty
Radio Member Advisory
BBC Radio 4 - Woman’s Hour; Any Questions; Quote Unquote;
Question of Law- Panel;Points of Law; You and Your’s.
BBC World Service - Rape on TV
LBC - Legal Trends with Frank Bough plus phone-in.
GLR - Legal phone-in on Richard Skinner Show.
Radio Leicester & Radio Leeds - regular broadcasts on legal
issues.
Radio Five Live – regular broadcasts on legal issues.
BOOKS
Virago Books: A PARENT’S LEGAL HANDBOOK; WOMEN’S
LEGAL HANDBOOK;
JUSTICE IS A WOMAN.
Contributor – SEIZE THE DAY; WAR CHILD – Poems for Refugees.
WRITING & JOURNALISM:
Weekly columns in: Chat Magazine; You and Your Rights; The Universe
Contributor to: Prospect, Estuary, Exeter by Day & Night Books.
1987 Legal advice column for Prestel.
LEGAL DEBATES AND SPEAKING
Times Dillon Debate: ‘Is the Law Male?’with Helena
Kennedy
Exeter University Debating Society - ‘British Justice’.
Charter ‘88 – ‘Women and the Law’.
Congress House – ‘Women in The Law’;
London Life - Savoy Hotel Breakfast; ‘Confessions of a Legal Agony
Aunt’.
Royal Society of Medicine – ‘Sexual Abuse of Children’
PLUS: - after dinner speeches for: City Woman’s Network; Lady Taverners;
House of Lords; RNLA; British Council – Exeter and Munich
OTHER INFORMATION
Committee member of A.W.B; Chair and Co-Founder of Network West; Member Family Law Bar Association; Association of Lawyers for Children; Women of the Year Association; Club 2000; Lady Taverners; 300 Group; Charter 88; The Groucho Club: Thomas Moore society; Grandparents association.
