Family Law Team

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Aysen Soyer
Aysen Soyer qualified as a solicitor with Pegden & Dubow in 1996. She joined Wilson & Co in January 2000 and was made a partner in 2005.

Aysen specialises in family and child law. Her practice covers all aspects of family work, including divorce and financial settlement, domestic violence and injunctions, and public and private law Children Act work. She has also dealt with adoption and international child abduction, and has been instructed by the Official Solicitor. She is a member of the Law Society's Family Law Panel.

Jacinta Lonnen
Jacinta Lonnen worked as an Adviser at a Citizens' Advice Bureau before qualifying as a solicitor at a large legal aid firm in Manchester in 1998. Jacinta has been a member of the Law Society's Children Panel since February 2003. She is currently vice-chair of the management committee of Haringey Law Centre.

She has specialised in Children work since qualification and deals only with cases involving children, including care, adoption, contact, residence and child abduction matters. She has acted for parents, children and other interested parties. She has an interest in children cases with an education law element, most recently including appearing in a complex case in the High Court concerning the duties of a local authority to place a child in care in a special school. She is an experienced advocate, holding rights of audience in the higher civil courts, and will always represent clients herself wherever possible.

Deborah Piccos
Deborah Piccos trained with Joy Merriam & Co and qualified as a solicitor in 2001, joining Wilson & Co in 2002. She specialises in family law and is particularly interested in children work including care, child abduction, residence and contact matters, as well as injunction work. Deborah undertakes a large proportion of her own advocacy and is a member of the Edmonton County Court Committee, which aims to improve the local court service.

Deborah is a member of LAGLA and regularly acts for lesbian and gay clients in all aspects of children and family law. She is an experienced advocate and holds rights of audience in the higher civil courts. She appears regularly in care proceedings and has experience of international child abduction and committal cases, and of acting on behalf of a father in a high profile and complex care case, involving Queens Counsel and a ten day causation hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice. Deborah is a member of the Law Society Children Panel.

Patricia Beckett
Patricia Beckett joined Wilson & Co. in 1998 and qualified as a solicitor in 2002. She specialises in children and family law, and her areas of work include private law children work, public law children work, divorce and ancillary relief, and Family Law injunctions.

She has a particular interest in Children Act work, and is experienced in representing and assisting grandparents in obtaining contact with, residence or special guardianship of their grandchildren. Patricia also enjoys ancillary relief work and has experience in cases involving substantial assets.

Patricia has been a member of the Law Society Family Law Panel since 2005. She is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children. She has undertaken voluntary work at the local Citizen's Advice Bureau.

Amna Khaliq
Amna Khaliq joined Wilson & Co in 2001, and qualified as a solicitor in 2005, having trained in family law and immigration law.

Amna exclusively specialises in family law, and her practice covers divorce, ancillary relief, unmarried family disputes, private and public law children work, and family law injunctions. Amna specialises in acting for parents in residence and contact disputes.

David Wallace
David Wallace joined Wilson & Co in 2005 and qualified as a solicitor in 2008, having trained in family, children and immigration law. He previously worked for the Family Welfare Association, a national charity helping children and families in need.

He deals with all aspects of family law, and has a particular expertise in cases involving both family and immigration law, for example in residence or contact cases where either a parent or the child does not have immigration status.