My friend Alister Prince, who has died of cancer aged 77, spent his career in child safeguarding and protection in London, becoming a team manager in Lambeth, then a senior manager in Newham, before moving into freelance training and consultancy in 1991.
His exceptionally bright mind and encyclopedic memory equipped him well to work as an expert witness in complex family court proceedings and to train lawyers on children’s law. He was the co-author, with Barbara Mitchels, of The Children Act and Medical Practice (1992), which aimed to explain key powers and concepts in children’s law to doctors.
