Maham Qureshi

Maham is undertaking a specialist Family pupillage under the supervision of Patricia Pratt and Mark Senior.

She is now accepting instructions and has begun to establish a busy family practice, acting in public and private law children matters including injunctive proceedings and matrimonial finance.

Children (Public and Private law)

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
• Orders for no contact pursuant to s.34 of the Children’s Act 1989

Maham is adept at drafting documents associated with care proceedings including position statements, chronologies and skeleton arguments.

Private Law

Maham acts for both parents in private law proceedings including in applications for:

• Child arrangement orders
• Non-molestation orders
• Enforcement applications
• Prohibited Steps 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 an agreed child contact arrangement order. Similarly, Maham has represented mothers in matters concerning allegations of serious domestic violence.

Family finance

Maham has attended and observed a number of Financial Dispute Resolution Appointments (FDAs) in matrimonial finance proceedings during her non-practising period and has assisted colleagues in preparing position statements for an indication and final orders upon agreement. This is an area of law that Maham is enthusiastically keen on expanding her practice in.

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