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Duncan Lewis would like to wish all five of our nominees the best of luck at the Society of Asian Lawyers awards ceremony in London tomorrow night.

Family and Child care director Emine Emine Mehmet, civil litigation director Sobashni De Silva, housing director Manjinder Kaur Atwal, family solicitor Krina Parmar and public law solicitor Raja Uruthiravinayagan are all in the running for top awards at the event which takes place on Saturday, October 15.

They will join 500 guests at Royal Lancaster Hotel in London to celebrate and champion legal excellence in the Asian community. It is the first SALs awards ceremony since the COVID pandemic.

Emine is in contention for the Lifetime Achievement award, while Sobashni is up for the Commercial Lawyer award, with Manjinder, Krina and Raja all in the running for the Civil Lawyer of the Year award.

Emine is a vastly experienced director of family and childcare at Duncan Lewis Solicitors whose caseload comprises a broad range of privately and publicly funded (legal aid) family and childcare matters including care proceedings acting for children, whether through their guardians or direct, and parents, private law children disputes, domestic abuse matters and much more.

Sobashni is a director in the litigation department at Duncan Lewis. Has experience across a broad range of areas such as professional negligence, banking disputes, builder's disputes, defamation, contractual disputes, civil fraud, misrepresentation claims and international cross-border litigation. She has more than 10 years’ experience dealing with high net worth clients.

Housing director Manjinder has more than 13 years’ experience in housing and property litigation law, covering a wide variety of dispute cases including possession claims and eviction matters, landlord and tenant disputes, homelessness, housing disrepair, bringing judicial review matters, review/appeals relating to local authority housing decisions, bringing and defending injunctions, boundary disputes, property nuisance/negligence claims, consumer and contractual matter, debt recovery and enforcement.

Krina has extensive experience in wide-ranging public and private law children matters with significant expertise in international child abduction matters, forced marriage applications, female genital mutilation (FGM) applications and emergency matters such as removal of children and domestic abuse. She represents parents, family members and many of her cases are culturally complex cases with international elements.

Raja is experienced not only in public law matters but also in criminal law, regulatory law and immigration law including asylum and human rights matters. He litigates across a broad range of areas and regularly conducting high profile class-action challenges to unlawful policies and practices affecting vulnerable people, at all levels, including the Administrative Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

Good luck to everyone!