Ms Alia Lewis > Duncan Lewis Solicitors > Harrow, England > Lawyer Profile
Duncan Lewis Solicitors Offices
Suite 3d
79 College Road
Harrow
HA1 1BD
England
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Ms Alia Lewis
Work Department
Child Care and Family
Position
Alia Lewis is a director within the family and child care department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors.
Alia’s expertise extends to all aspects of family law and she has a particular specialism in public law care cases and secure accommodation. Alia has extensive experience representing children through their guardian and through separate representation. She also represents parents, extended family members and interveners, and has conducted cases on behalf of the official solicitor.
Her cases involve a range of issues including; physical, sexual and emotional abuse; neglect; factitious illness; non-accidental injury; drug and alcohol addiction; domestic abuse; learning difficulties; mental illness; psychological disorders, and physical disability. She conducts numerous cases that have an international element and undertakes the majority of her own advocacy in order to provide a continuity of representation to her clients. She is also experienced in chairing experts meetings.
Career
Alia qualified as a solicitor in 2006 and has been a partner level-director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors since 2012.
Memberships
Alia is a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel, and is also a member of Association of Lawyers for Children. She is a member of Resolution, as well as a member of NAGALRO – a professional association for social work practitioners who work in the children and families field and represent children in public and private court proceedings.
Education
Alia completed the LPC at the Inns Court School of Law and has an LLB (Hons) from Middlesex University.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
(Next Generation Partners)The ‘exceptional‘ practice at Duncan Lewis Solicitors dispenses advice on the full spectrum of family law matters, with a particular emphasis on international child abduction cases, special guardianship orders, and wardship issues. In Harrow, Adeeba Naseem has broad knowledge spanning surrogacy issues, adoption cases and financial proceedings, while Alia Lewis is particularly adept at acting for children in public law care cases. Dividing her time between Milton Keynes and Luton, Krina Parmar has extensive expertise in advising on forced marriage and female genital mutilation matters. Luton’s Emma Bilsborrow has a great deal of experience in handling high-net-worth divorces and cohabitation agreements, and in Milton Keynes, Shazia Rana often assists clients with obtaining non-molestation injunctions, and care and emergency protection orders.
Lawyer Rankings
- Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx South East > Private client
- Next Generation Partners South East > Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Employment > Immigration
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Crime, fraud and licensing > General crime and fraud
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate