| Family Law Team | |
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Aysen Soyer 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. |
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Jacinta Lonnen 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. |
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Deborah Piccos 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. |
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Patricia Beckett 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. |
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Amna Khaliq 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.
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David Wallace 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. |