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Coram Chambers Offices
Coram Chambers
9-11 FULWOOD PLACE
LONDON
WC1V 6HG
England
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Ms Shiva Ancliffe KC KC
Work Department
Children; International
Position
Shiva is a family practitioner specialising in private law children, removal from the jurisdiction, child abduction, care proceedings, adoption, including inter-country adoption, and public interest immunity. She has a particular interest in safeguarding women from domestic violence and forced marriage and presents lectures/seminars to social workers and other professionals within her field of law.
Career
Called 1991
Languages
Farsi.
Memberships
FLBA; Lincoln’s Inn
Education
LLB (Hons) Birmingham City University
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Family: children and domestic abuse
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Shiva Ancliffe KC –Coram Chambers ‘Shiva is a calm, measured and very powerful advocate. Her cross-examination and submissions are targeted and effective. She can quickly draw all the issues in a case together, and her tactical ability is second to none.’
Coram Chambers is ‘a top set that excels in all areas of family law’. Mark Twomey KC ‘elevates any case with his erudition, style and incisive cross-examination’. Shiva Ancliffe KC is ‘an extremely effective and impressive advocate‘, with solid expertise in handling public law cases involving allegations of serious injuries and sexual abuse. The ‘very solid and pragmatic barrister’ Victoria Roberts is admired for her ‘well-prepared cross-examination and effective advocacy in the court’, while Alison Easton is ‘forensically outstanding and knows her cases thoroughly’. In recent developments, Shárin Diegan joined the group in October 2023, and on the management side, Sean Gentleman joined as senior clerk in June 2024.