Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Family and Child Care

Krina Parmar is a Director in the Family & Child Care department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors. Krina specialises in public and private law children matters, with significant expertise in: forced marriage applications; female genital mutilation (FGM) applications; emergency matters including removal of children and domestic abuse, and forced marriage applications. Many of Krina’s case are culturally complex with international aspects.

Krina represents parents, family member and children as parties to applications for child arrangements orders, special guardianship orders, child abduction matters, adoption proceedings, and care proceedings including serious non-accidental injuries where a baby has died. Krina is regularly instructed in high profile non-accidental injury cases and has been led by Kings Counsel in these matters.

Krina undertakes all her own advocacy where possible to ensure clients receive a continuous and consistent service. Krina also frequently trains professional in the areas of domestic abuse, forced marriages and FGM. She has considerable experience representing victims of domestic abuse and vulnerable clients, including those with learning disabilities. Additionally, Krina attends pro bono surgeries for Women’s Aid and has a strong relationship with victim support and the police. She is also a police station accredited representative.

Krina qualified as a solicitor in 2009 and has been a partner-level director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors since 2013.

Krina speaks fluent Gujarati.

Krina is a member of the Children Law Panel.

Krina obtained her LLB in Law and her LLM Masters in Law from Kingston University. She achieved her LPC at the College of Law, Birmingham.