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11 Staple Inn
LONDON
WC1V 7QH
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Forum Shah
Work Department
Children.
Position
Senior Associate specialising in private and public children law, with particular expertise in international child abduction and relocation. She receives instructions directly from the International Child Abduction and Contact Unit (ICACU). She acts for both applicants and respondents in cases concerning the 1980 Hague Convention/wardship and non Hague Convention countries. Forum also acts for parents and other family members in care proceedings (her expertise in international children law means she is often chosen by parents residing abroad and who are seeking their child to be placed with them), in living and contact arrangements, applications to relocate abroad and cases involving allegations of drug and alcohol abuse, domestic abuse and parental alienation.
Career
Trained at TV Edwards LLP in London, qualified in 2014 and has practised family law exclusively since then. She joined Dawson Cornwell as an Associate in 2020; Senior Associate 2021.
Languages
Fluent in Gujarati and has basic Hindi.
Memberships
Resolution Accredited Specialist in the areas of child abduction and domestic abuse; elected member of the Executive Committee of the Child Abduction Lawyers Association (CALA) and she is on the committee of the Association of Lawyers for Children. She is a member of Resolution, the Young Legal Aid Lawyers and The Family Law Panel.
Education
BSc in Applied Business Management at Imperial College, London; Graduate Diploma in Law – Commendation at College of Law, London Bloomsbury; Legal Practice Course (Legal Aid Route) – Distinction at College of Law, London Bloomsbury; LLB Law 2:1, College of Law, London Bloomsbury.