Family

Mrs Savita Sharma joined Duncan Lewis in October 2004 and is a Director and Head of the Family Department at the Harrow on the Hill office.

Mrs Sharma has been specialising in family Law since qualifying as a Solicitor in November 1998. She specialises 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; residence/contact disputes including relocation abroad; 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; civil Directorship disputes and matrimonial conveyancing. Mrs Sharma is committed to all areas of Family and Children law.

She currently manages the Family Department, which encompasses senior solicitors, assistant solicitors, trainee solicitors and paralegals. She is actively involved in marketing, training of trainee solicitors/paralegals and the direct supervision of the Department as well as continuing to practice family law. She has been involved in the following reported family cases, which are the leading authorties. These are as follows RE S (A CHILD) RE N (A CHILD) sub nom G v A (2009) [2009] EWHC 11 (Fam) - reported in Lawtel at LTL 28/1/2009 and in the (2009) 1 FLR 1442 - On the issue of Schedule 1 (financial proceedings) CA 1989 RE N (A CHILD) sub nom A v (1) G (2) N (BY HIS RULE 9.5 GUARDIAN) : RE N (A CHILD) sub nom G v A (2008) [2008] EWHC 2042 (Fam) reported in Lawtel at LTL 27/8/2008, (2008) 1 WLR 2743, (2008) 2 FLR 1899 - On the issue of Mckenzie friends in family proceedings Mrs Sharma is a member of the Law Society’s Advanced Family Law Panel and practices in both the High Court and County Courts. Only Solicitors who meet the Law Society’s exacting accreditation requirements are permitted to join the panel at an Advanced level. She is a current member of Resolution (formerly known as the Solicitors Family Lawyers Association) and has been for many years. She is also a member of local Middlesex Law Society Mrs Sharma also regularly advises at the local Women’s Centre and Citizen’s Advice Bureau on a voluntary basis to ensure that there is access to justice to all members of the society including the most vulnerable.

She has also lectured the Family elective on the Legal Practice Course to post graduate students at the local University. As such she has used her practical and legal experience to assist her in the teaching of aspiring students as well as trainee solicitors/paralegals in the family department in Harrow.