Sonia Gal > Chambers of Frances Heaton KC and Richard Norton > Manchester, England > Barrister Profile
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Sonia Gal
Work Department
Family - Children, Family - Finance
Position
Sonia practises in all areas of Family Law with emphasis on financial provision following divorce. She has extensive experience in all aspects of Children Act proceedings in both public and private law cases including finding of fact hearings and final hearings dealing with neglect domestic violence emotional and sexual abuse, as well as contact and residence cases acting for parents, children or extended family members.
Sonia has a particular interest in the international movement of children and child abduction.
In her Family – Finance practice, Sonia covers all aspects of family law with particular emphasis on high value financial provision cases including dealing with company matters, corporate veils, pre and post separation agreements, s. 37 disputes, trusts, Schedule 1, pensions, farming cases, periodical payments, cohabitation, material non disclosure, costs, inherited assets, financial remedy in the context of confiscation orders and Appeals.
Sonia is also instructed in complex medium worth cases where competing issues of contributions, need, sale of FMH, pension offset, cohabitation and Mesher Orders have to be argued.
Career
Called 1982, Inner Temple; recorder.
Languages
Fluent in French, German, Romanian, Hungarian and Norwegian and has conversational Italian.
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association. (Treasurer of the Manchester Branch since 2002.)
- Recorder
Education
Sonia was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1982 following a Post-graduate qualification from Manchester University in French and German.