Maham Qureshi

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.

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

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.

Maham has represented clients at Financial Dispute Appointments (FDAs). She was recently instructed to represent 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.

Maham is extremely keen to expand her practice in matrimonial finance and continues to grow her knowledge within this field.

Maham is friendly and has the ability to navigate even the most challenging situation in a calm and client-focused approach.

• BPTC, Distinction, BPP Law School (2018)
• LLM, Distinction, BPP Law School (2018)
• LLB (Hons), First, University of West London (2017)

• Middle Temple: Terrence FitzGerald Scholarship (2017)
• BPP Law School: BPTC Scholarship (2017)

• Thomson Reuters Law Prize – Best performing second year law student (2015)

• Northern Circuit
• Women In The Law
• The Honourable Society of Middle Temple