Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Family and Child Care

Adeeba is a Director in the Family & Child Care department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. Adeeba’s areas of expertise include handling international and domestic family law proceedings in the High Court, with a niche specialism in child abduction, surrogacy, and international adoption cases. She also regularly assists client with divorce, separation, domestic and international financial proceedings, including pre and post-nuptial agreements.

In child abduction matters, Adeeba regularly issues family proceedings both domestically and in different jurisdictions outside the UK. She liaises with organisation and authorities in other jurisdictions to ensure vulnerable children are successfully returned to their home country. She has handled a significant number of cases worldwide including the return of children adducted to Pakistan and Jamaica, two highly complex cases as neither country’s accession to the Hague Convention is ratified.

Adeeba also has expertise in surrogacy cases where couple have a surrogate mother in England or another country to carry their child and looks to secure parental orders to ensure the couple are legally recognised as the child’s parents.

Adeeba handles both privately and publicly funded matter and undertakes her own advocacy where possible. Her broad client base includes vulnerable victims of domestic abuse, international high-profile clients, and cases with a public interest due to concerns of extremist links or children’s medical conditions. She works closely with a number of non-profit organisations that support and advise vulnerable members of their communities. Adeeba also gives talks and pro bono advice at domestic violence organisations, helping victims of abuse to secure protection through emergency injunctions.

Adeeba qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and has been a partner-level director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors since 2012.

Adeeba speaks fluent Urdu and Punjabi.

Adeeba is a member of the Law Society's Children Panel and the Association of Lawyers for Children and Reunite International. She is also a member of Reunite International.

Adeeba obtained her LLB (Hons) from the University of Leeds and her LPC from Leeds Metropolitan University.