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Duncan Lewis retains its Legal 500 ranking as a leading law firm in London in Family & Childcare matters for 2015 (21 September 2015)

Date: 21/09/2015
Duncan Lewis, Child Care Solicitors, Duncan Lewis retains its Legal 500 ranking as a leading law firm in London in Family & Childcare matters for 2015

Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that they have retained their ranking as a London Leading Law Firm in Family & Childcare with Aina Khan receiving individual lawyer recognition in the 2015 edition of the Legal 500.

Following the release of the 2015 edition of the Legal 500 UK Directory Awards, Duncan Lewis Solicitors are pleased to announce that they continue to be ranked as a Leading Law Firm in the London Family & Childcare practice area with Solicitor Aina Khan receiving individual Lawyer recommendation.

For nearly 30 years the Legal 500 has been a worldwide client’s guide to the best law firms and lawyers, which analyses the capabilities of law firms worldwide with a comprehensive research programme heavily focused on peer and client feedback.

Achieving a Leading Law Firm ranking for Family & Childcare work in London, Duncan Lewis have successfully retained Legal 500 recommendation, with Aina Khan also maintaining her own individual Leading Lawyer status.

Legal 500 states;

“Duncan Lewis Solicitors has a very large legal aid practice, and is an ‘undoubted force in international children law’. Aina Khan specialises in Islamic divorce.”

Specialists in all aspects of family and private children law matters, the law firm’s Family & Childcare department holds a niche practice in representing victims of domestic abuse and are significantly experienced in complex financial matrimonial matters (ancillary relief) relating to the breakdown of a marriage/relationship. With a broad practice representing parents, family members and children through their children’s guardian in all children public law proceedings and conducting cases on behalf of the official solicitor, the Duncan Lewis Family & Childcare team are also specialists in high profile international child abduction cases, with an extensive practice in inherent jurisdiction/forum disputes, international relocation cases and wardship proceedings for the return of children. Duncan Lewis has an established Islamic & Sharia Law team led by Aina Khan which specialises in Islamic Divorce, Islamic Financial Settlement & Mehr Claims under English Law.

Duncan Lewis is one of the panel solicitors used by the National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV) and one of only a small number of firms throughout the UK that are on the Lord Chancellor’s International Child Abduction & Contact Panel (ICACU), which is responsible for administering Hague Convention (Child Abduction) proceedings work in England.

The quality of the Duncan Lewis’ London Child Care team is illustrated by the fact that the company has 25 specialist solicitors / Law Society accredited Children Law Panel Members authorised to act for children in all children public law proceedings; 16 of the company’s solicitors are Law Society accredited family panel members; 5 are advanced members of the Law Society Family Panel, which allows them to conduct complex ancillary relief proceedings and children act matters along with all other matrimonial cases including those involving domestic abuse issues. The Duncan Lewis Family & Childcare department was recently shortlisted in the Jordans Family Law Awards 2015 for ‘Family Law Firm of the Year’ and boasts over 40 accredited Law Society panel members across all offices.

The recent edition of Legal 500 also recommended Duncan Lewis as a leading law firm in Immigration Human Rights; Business Immigration in the firm’s London and Wales practices; Crime: General; Private Client: Court of Protection; Public Sector: Administrative and Public Law and Social Housing: Tenant matters in their London and Cardiff practices. Throughout these departments 16 Lawyers received individual recommendation. Within these departments, individual lawyer recognition went to: Adam Tear (Immigration Human Rights); James Packer (Immigration Human Rights; Public Law), Toufique Hossain (Immigration Human Rights & Public Law), Seher Toguz (Immigration Human Rights), Vicash Ramkissoon (Business Immigration), Kaajal Chandrasingh (Immigration East Midlands), Vanessa Delgado (Immigration Wales) Aina Khan (Family & Matrimonial); Angela Smith (Court of Protection & Mental Capacity), Subbiah Sivapunniyam, James De Vere Moss, Diane Cowie, Bernadette Sylvester (Social Housing). Heather Iqbal Rayner (Social Housing Wales) and Vinita Templeton (Immigration Human Rights Wales) both achieved “Elite “Leading Lawyer recommendation.


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