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Maham is a specialist Family Law Barrister. Her practice spans across all areas of family law with particular focus on matrimonial finance, private and public children proceedings.
Maham is routinely instructed to represent both parents in private children matters as well as Family Law Act proceedings such as contested NMO and OO hearings. Given the nature of these hearings, Maham is always available to assist clients either prior or post hearings for advice on merits of these applications.
Maham represents clients in a wide range of financial remedies proceedings, including FDA’S, FDR’s and committals. She also accepts instructions in respect of applications for financial provision for children pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989.
She has received recognition by those who instruct her in financial remedies:
“Maham very diligently and patiently represented my client in a financial remedy case who was very impressed by her.”
– Alexandra Kenyon, Partner at Dickinson Parker Hill Solicitors
Maham also represents local authorities in public law proceedings in a range of matters including those of a complex nature such as injunctions against the LA, non-accidental injuries, removals and DOLO’s . She has demonstrated the ability to tackle intricate areas of law and is regularly instructed to draft skeleton arguments and chronologies in legally complex matters.
Maham is friendly and committed to achieving the best outcome for her clients. She has the ability to navigate even the most challenging situations in a calm and client-focused manner.
Children (Public and Private law)
Private Law
Maham acts for both parents in private law children proceedings including in applications for:
- Child arrangement orders
- Enforcement applications
- Prohibited Steps orders
- Specific issue orders
- Non-molestation orders
- Occupation Orders
At a recent DRA, she represented a respondent father facing allegations of parental alienation and was able to affectively agree the factual matrix, negating the need for any fact finding and finalised matters with a final child contact arrangement order. Similarly, Maham has represented mothers in matters concerning allegations of serious domestic violence.
Maham is regularly instructed to represent clients at urgent without notice injunctive applications and is able to represent clients from the first hearing right through to a final hearing.
Public Law
Maham represents parents, children (directly and via their guardian), intervenors and the local authority at all stages of proceedings, from the first appointment right through to final hearings.
She has already successfully represented local authorities on a number of contested matters including:
- Revocation of placement orders
- Urgent ICO and removal hearings
- Final care and placement orders
- Recovery orders
- Deprivation of Liberty Orders in the High Court
- Applications for secure accommodation orders
- Adoption proceedings
- No contact orders pursuant to s.34 of the Children’s Act 1989
- Injunctions against the Local Authority
- Special Guardianship orders
Maham is adept at drafting documents associated with care proceedings and has been repeatedly instructed to draft skeleton arguments on niche points of law as well as position statements and chronologies for complex multiday trials.
Family finance
Maham represents clients in wide range of financial remedies proceedings. She was recently instructed to represent a Respondent H and prepared a very thorough note in assisting the judge to list the matter directly for an FDR and overriding the guidance in TL v ML, to join a range of intervenors at an early stage for the purpose of a preliminary issues hearing where the H was asserting the beneficial interest for a number of his properties did not follow the legal interest.
Similarly, Maham represented an Applicant W at a Committal Hearing as the Respondent H had failed to file his Form E. Maham drafted a detailed case note which greatly assisted the judge in reaching a decision in favour of her client.
She is able to represent clients from the FDA right through to a final hearing. Maham is also readily available to provide advice on the merits of any claim or applications pertaining to financial remedies proceedings.
Education
- BPTC, Distinction, BPP Law School (2018)
- LLM, Distinction, BPP Law School (2018)
- LLB (Hons), First, University of West London (2017)
Scholarships
- Middle Temple: Terrence FitzGerald Scholarship (2017)
- BPP Law School: BPTC Scholarship (2017)
Awards
- Thomson Reuters Law Prize – Best performing second year law student (2015)
Memberships
- Northern Circuit
- Women In The Law
- The Honourable Society of Middle Temple
