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Arrival of Eleanor Stokes sees Duncan Lewis’ Barnet office expand its Childcare & Housing law practice (4 February 2015)
Date: 04/02/2015
Duncan Lewis is pleased to announce the recent relocation of Childcare & housing specialist Eleanor Stokes from the company’s Shepherd’s Bush branch to its recently opened Barnet office in North London.
The Duncan Lewis Barnet office opened in December 2014 and specialises in family, childcare and housing matters. Eleanor Stokes joins childcare specialists and law society accredited children panel members Madhvi Makwana and Sheena Donlan in Barnet and works closely with Kathy Walker, Director of Childcare. Eleanor specialises in all areas of housing and family, childcare law.
Family & Childcare
From its Barnet office, the family and childcare 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).
Housing
Duncan Lewis has a niche housing law expertise defending social tenants in possession and unlawful eviction cases from its Barnet office and other offices across London and throughout the UK. The company’s housing specialists provide representation in all proceedings including reviews, appeals and judicial review proceedings relating to homelessness, disrepair, succession for tenants and neighbourhood disputes against local authorities.