Christina Warner

Christina is a multi-award-winning human rights barrister and specialist in family cases involving parents or children with disabilities.

Having been diagnosed with Stargardts Disease a progressive condition which causes sight loss, she uses her experience to support those challenged by disability access the justice system. One of only a handful of barristers with a disability in practice and one of even fewer practicing at the Family Bar.

Christina’s started her PhD at Leiden University’s, Van Vollenhoven Institute, the Netherlands in September 2024. Her provisional PhD thesis title is Are there sufficient strategies in place for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute cases involving disabled victims of crimes under the Rome Statute which questions whether the ICC’s approach to prosecuting cases involving disabled victims is sufficient within the court’s governing legislation, the Rome Statute. Christina will research whether greater guidance and formal policies are needed in prosecutions brought by the ICC involving victims and witnesses with disabilities who are impacted by war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

In October 2023, she was invited as a panel speaker at the All-Party Parliamentary Group in the House of Commons, discussing the link between human and animal violence, drawing on her knowledge of disabled victims of domestic abuse.

She was also invited to participate at the International Criminal Court Bar Association’s first panel discussion on international humanitarian law and disability in January 2024.

Christina was a keynote speaker in July 2024 during a collaborative talk with the Association of Disabled Lawyers, speaking on the World Health Organisation’s comments as to the need for further protection and awareness of violence against disabled women and girls.

Christina also featured in the first UK Disability Expo in June 2023 discussing hate crime and discrimination towards members of the disabled community.