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Lubeya Ramadhan is a family practitioner specialising exclusively in cases involving children. Lubeya undertakes work in all areas of law relating to children including public and private law, adoption and international law. Lubeya is committed to achieving the best possible outcome for her clients and is ranked in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500.

Lubeya has a particular interest and expertise in mental health and mental capacity, and also undertakes cases within the Court of Protection, with an emphasis on health and welfare matters. In all areas of her practice, Lubeya is able to form a rapport with vulnerable clients and regularly represents individuals with cognitive or learning difficulties and those with mental illness. Lubeya regularly acts for parties who lack litigation capacity.

In care proceedings Lubeya is known for representing local authorities, parents, children’s guardians and competent children in complex cases involving serious allegations of abuse such as non-accidental injuries, neglect, sexual abuse and factitious or induced illness. Lubeya’s cases frequently involve complicated medical evidence and calling or cross-examining medical experts as trial.

Lubeya’s instructions in private law proceedings generally involve cases with protracted disputes between parents or where there are complex issues relating to mental health, substance misuse, domestic abuse allegations or alienating behaviours. Within Lubeya’s private law practice, fact-finding hearings will often be necessary to determine the factual matrix for the final hearing. Lubeya is experienced in drafting focused schedules of allegations.

Lubeya is experienced in issues relating to the international movement of children including Hague Convention child abduction proceedings and leave to remove applications. Lubeya also acts in applications under the court’s Inherent Jurisdiction and in Article 21 applications relating to international child access arrangements.

Lubeya has an approachable manner and gives clear, pragmatic advice. In court she is an effective and determined advocate, robust where a case demands it and committed to fighting her client’s case. Lubeya started her practice as a criminal practitioner; she is an effective cross-examiner with a forensic and methodical approach. She is always meticulously well prepared, appearing at all levels up to the Court of Appeal but predominantly in front of Circuit Judges and High Court Judges.

Called to Middle Temple 2000.

Jules Thorn Scholar

Recipient of a Blackstone Award.

Lubeya is the Legal and Governance Trustee for Future Youth Zone, a youth zone charity in Barking and Dagenham.

Reported cases

S (Children), Re (New Evidence) (Rev1) [2024] EWCA Civ 1265 (24 October 2024) BD v BJ [2023] EWHC 1613 (Fam) (29 June 2023) K & C (Children: Finding of Fact), Re [2018] EWFC B85 (12 October 2018) S (A Child), Re [2013] EWCA Civ 1254 (24 October 2013) AO v LA [2023] EWHC 83 (Fam) (24 January 2023) AA v BB & Ors [2022] EWHC 2322 (Fam) (12 July 2022) E, Re (Special Guardianship Order: Ukraine) [2024] EWHC 263 (Fam) (12 February 2024) A Local Authority v AA [2022] EWHC 1596 (Fam) (15 June 2022) S (Children: Transnational Marriage Abandonment) [2025] EWCA Civ 1058 (01 August 2025) Z, Re (A Child) (Inherent Jurisdiction: Stranding: Significant Harm) [2025] EWHC 281 (Fam) (03 February 2025

Court of Protection Bar Association Family Law Bar Association The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Previously Member of the Bar Council Ethics Committee Interviewer for Middle Temple Access to the Bar scheme.

Blackstone Award, Middle Temple Jules Thorn Scholar, Middle Temple LLB (Law), University of Sussex