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1GC | Family Law Offices
1GC | Family Law
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Alev Giz
Position
Alev is a private and public child law specialist, regularly instructed in relocation cases (international/domestic) and in child arrangements disputes with particular expertise in representing children, through their guardians and separately. She also acts in Wardship and child abduction cases (Hague/non-Hague) and on behalf of parents, local authorities, children’s guardians and children who have separated from their guardians in the most sensitive and complex public law cases involving serious inflicted injury, sexual abuse, complex medical issues, radicalisation, forced marriage, parental alienation and the withdrawal of medical treatment.
Alev has appeared in several landmark reported cases including the seminal Court of Appeal decision in Re F (A Child) (International Relocation Cases) [2015] EWCA Civ 882; and the Court of Appeal authority on the separate representation of children: W (A Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1051.
Alev also acts in Court of Protection proceedings on the instructions of the Official Solicitor and family members. She successfully fought for the right of a terminally ill lady to be allowed to leave her care placement and die at home: VE v AO & Ors [2020] EWCOP 23 and recently represented the mother in the delicate and important case of London NHS Trust v CD & Ors (Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment) [2021] EWCOP 727.
Career
Year of Call: 1988, Grays Inn
Languages
Fluent in Turkish, both written and spoken.
Memberships
FLBA
ALC
CALA
CPBA
Education
LLB (Hons) King’s College, University of London
Personal
Alev is a keen pianist, loves travelling, theatre and literature.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Court of Protection and community care
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Alev Giz –1GC | Family Law ‘Alev is very empathetic and goes the extra mile with clients. She is kind to the vulnerable client, and her advocacy is clear and powerful.’
1GC | Family Law‘s members have substantial expertise in cases of deprivation of liberty, medical treatment and termination of treatment and alleged human rights infringements of vulnerable adults. Andrew Bagchi KC ’s workload includes decisions about medical treatment, marriage and sexual relations in marriage and medical treatment cases. Malcolm Chisholm is ‘a very effective advocate, expressing his client’s position succinctly and persuasively’ and has expertise in handling deprivation of liberty and personal welfare cases. Alev Giz regularly gets instructions from the Official Solicitor and family members on health and welfare, and care matters and is known as ‘an exceptional advocate, incredibly skilful and nuanced’. Louise MacLynn KC was appointed as silk in March 2023.
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Alev Giz –1GC | Family Law ‘Alev is very calm with clients, and when she is in court, she exudes an air of authority and puts forward the client’s cases professionally. She can argue points no other person has thought of and is very sharp on her feet.’