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Family News
Duncan Lewis Solicitors welcomes the return of Hanife Djemal to the family and child care departments (3 July 2020)
We are pleased to announce that family and child care solicitor Hanife Djemal has returned to Duncan Lewis after initially leaving the firm in March 2020. Read more...
Successful Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order application from the family court despite conflict with immigration courts (2 March 2020)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors were successful in an application for a Female Genital Mutilation Protection Order (FGMPO) to protect our client’s daughter who was at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors appoint new child care and family directors Natasha Khakhar and Olamide Olayemi at Luton and Leicester (2 March 2020)
We are pleased to announce the recent internal appointments of Natasha Khakhar and Olamide Olayemi as directors within our child care and family departments. Read more...
Everything you need to know about family mediation at Duncan Lewis Solicitors (24 January 2020)
In light of Family Mediation Week, we explain what family mediation is, how it is used, and the family mediation services our family and child care departments offer Read more...
Emine Mehmet to launch pro bono clinic for vulnerable women in partnership with University of East London’s Legal Advice Centre and Councillor Shah’s Conversation Café (22 January 2020)
Child care director Emine Mehmet is launching a new law clinic offering family and child care advice for vulnerable women as part of Newham Council's Conversation Café. Read more...
International family law specialist Helen Newman honoured at the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Slovakia (5 December 2019)
We are delighted to reveal that our international family law specialist Helen Newman has been honoured for her 'outstanding bravery, compassion, and humanitarian engagement of children’s rights not to be separated from their families'. Read more...
Family law solicitor Emily Reed attends the National FGM Centre Conference (9 July 2019)
Emily Reed,a solicitor within the family department attended the National Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Centre’s Conference ‘RSE: The Role of Education in Responding to FGM and other Harmful Practices’ in London. Read more...
Family director Forida Hakim takes part in the POAM ‘Domestic violence and child abduction’ workshop (8 July 2019)
Last month, family director Forida Hakim attended and took part in the Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings (POAM) workshop in Aberdeen University where she, along with other experts explored the intersection between domestic violence and international parental child abduction within the EU. Read more...
International family law solicitor Helen Newman joins Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ family department (28 March 2019)
We are pleased to announce that prominent international family law solicitor, Helen Newman, has joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors as a supervisor in the family department. Helen joins Duncan Lewis after over 30 years working as a director and partner at Pritchard Joyce & Hinds. Based primarily in our Tonbridge office in Kent, Helen specialises in all international family matters. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors represents wife who remarried after erroneously being granted a divorce from the courts - M v P [2019] EWFC 14 (25 March 2019)
Duncan Lewis Solicitors represented a wife whose divorce was sought to make void in an application made by the Queen’s Proctor. The wife was represented by solicitors Sundeep Budwal and Paul Nuttall from our family and child care department. Read more...
Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ Emine Mehmet contributes to new book ‘101 Questions Answered About Separating with Children’ for separating parents (30 January 2019)
With legal aid being drastically cut, Duncan Lewis Solicitors is delighted to be supporting a national, not-for-profit social enterprise working to provide accessible support to families through the difficulties of separation and divorce. Read more...