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Duncan Lewis appoints Children Panel Member Michelle Bird as Director of Family & Childcare (6 February 2015)

Date: 06/02/2015
Duncan Lewis, Child Care Solicitors, Duncan Lewis appoints Children Panel Member Michelle Bird as Director of Family & Childcare

Leading Legal 500 national law firm Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Michelle Bird as a Director of Family & Childcare.

Michelle joins Alia Lewis and Ravi Mahey as Director and Joint Head of the Family and Childcare department based in the company’s Harrow-on-the-Hill offices.

Michelle possesses over 15 years’ experience in family, child care and Court of Protection proceedings and now practices in complex private family matters from the Duncan Lewis’ head office in Harrow. She is an advanced member of the Law Society in three areas of law; Private Children, Financial Relief Remedies and Domestic Violence and is therefore recognised by the Law Society as a specialist in these fields.

In addition to Michelle Bird, Children Panel Members Sarah Jopling, Frances Clare (Tooting office), Misbah Ali (Lewisham office), Kirsty Richards (Barnet office) and Kathy Walker (Croydon office) have all been appointed as Directors of Family & Childcare.

Duncan Lewis’ family and childcare team has been recognised as a leading practice by Legal 500 UK 2014. The department specialises in all aspects of family and private children law matters, with a particular family specialism in representing victims of domestic abuse and assisting in financial matrimonial matters relating to the breakdown of a marriage/relationship. The company holds a broad practice representing parents, family members and children through their children’s guardian in all children public law proceedings and are regularly appointed by Guardians to represent babies and young children in cases involving severe non-accidental injuries, fictitious illnesses and allegations of sexual abuse. The company’s childcare specialists have conduct in high profile international child abduction cases and regularly practice in inherent jurisdiction/forum disputes, international relocation cases, cross border care proceedings and wardship proceedings for the return of children taken out of the jurisdiction.

Duncan Lewis currently has 39 law society accredited children panel members that practice from offices across London and throughout the UK. The firm is one of only a small number of firms that are on the Lord Chancellor’s International Child Abduction & Contact Panel (ICACU). ICACU is responsible for administering Hague Convention (Child Abduction) proceedings work in England.


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