Child Care

Amanjit is senior solicitor in the Family & Child Care Department. She joined Duncan Lewis & Co in September 2004 and developed the Family and Child Care Departments within Duncan Lewis. She is committed to all areas of children and family law.

Amanjit has been specialising in both children and family Law since qualifying as a Solicitor in January 2000. In all Children Act proceedings she represents parents, family members, children's guardians and children. Her practise covers residence, contact, specific issue and prohibited step order applications. She is committed to acting in all children matters in particular special guardianship orders, care orders, supervision orders and emergency orders; adoption within the UK and overseas; parental responsibility agreements; paternity disputes and surrogacy agreements. Amanjit has been instructed in a number of complex cases involving cruelty to children and serious allegations of harm to children.

In addition, she is able to advise on Family/Matrimonial matters and practises in both the High Court and County Courts, acting for publicly funded and private clients. She practices her own advocacy at all levels.

Amanjit's other main area of expertise is work with cases with an international element. She is experienced in child abduction cases under the Hague Convention and receives referrals from the Central Authority acting for parents abroad, as well as acting for those defending abduction claims. She is on the Reunite Panel of Solicitors, an organisation which helps families on child abduction with advice, information and support.

She has a vast amount of experience in dealing with foreign marriages and advising on all aspects of financial settlements, including dealing with assets in foreign jurisdictions.

She has a number of reported cases: M v J [2007] All ER (D) AT5 (MAR) Re SK [2007] EWHC 3289 (FAM) Re Z (Unsupervised Contact: Allegations of Domestic Violence) [2009] EWCA CIV 430 Re O (A Child) [2009] EWCA Civ 1273 WF v FJ, BF and RF (Abduction: Child's Objections) [2010] EWHC 2909 (Fam) Amanjit has continued to specialise in divorces, judicial separation and nullity; complex financial matters (ancillary relief) relating to the breakdown of a marriage/relationship including high net worth assets and the distribution of business assets; non-molestation injunctions and occupation orders; cases involving international jurisdiction in both financial and child abduction matters; prenuptial, cohabitation and separation agreements; cohabitation disputes involving property; and civil partnership disputes.

She undertakes pro bono work on a regular basis with local women's centres and CAB's. She is dedicated to working with all vulnerable members of society that require assistance and further committed to charitable work with a number of local Charities. She remains committed to a career to public funding work.

Amanjit is a professional member of the following

• The Law Society's Children Panel - Children Representative
• The Advanced Family Law Panel
• The Lord Chancellor's Child Abduction and Contact Panel
• The Association of Lawyers for Children
• Law Society
• The Middlesex Law Society

She is also a non professional member of

• Childs Rights Information Network

Amanjit is fluent in the Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu languages.

In her spare time she enjoys yoga, current affairs, astronomy and reading.