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Sulema Jahangir
Work Department
Children.
Position
Partner who undertakes all aspects of domestic and international family law including child abduction, child custody and the financial consequences of divorce and separation. She also acts for the victims of forced marriages, abandoned spouses and honour based violence. She has acted in several reported cases in superior courts in both England and Pakistan.
Career
Dual qualified solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and an Advocate of the High Courts in Pakistan. Trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Partner at AGHS Law in Pakistan; joined Dawson Cornwell in 2012; Partner 2021; a visiting lecturer for “Gender and Development”, part of the MPhil course at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge.
Languages
Fluent in Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi.
Memberships
She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL); Chair of the IAFL Forced Marriage Committee; a member of Resolution; LAWASIA; the Pakistan Bar Council; and the Lahore High Court Bar Association.
Education
University of Cambridge (Commonwealth scholar and Becker (Law) scholarship) BA (Hons) 2:1;
Legal Practice Course – Commendation at BPP Law School.