Coram Chambers

Children; Family finance; Court of Protection

Anarkali has a diverse practice; with a particular focus on cases involving children. She offers strong advocacy skills alongside clear, nuanced advice; and her clients will find her approachable, helpful and straightforward. She has extensive experience representing parents, Guardians, (ex) spouses and Local Authorities.

Having come from a mixed common law background, Anarkali’s practice is now predominately court-based and covers almost all areas of family law. Recent cases have involved:

• NAI fact-finds, risk assessments and disposal hearings;
• Serious and chronic neglect, violence and sex abuse, involving organised crime networks, casual extra-family abusers and local paedophile rings;
• Experts, including those who have faced professional sanctions as a result of her cross examination.
• Appeals and Judicially reviewable matters: findings of fact, judicial approach, exercise of judicial discretion, reliance on experts, and appropriate reliance on the evidence offered. She has recently appealed successfully a CMO.
• Extensive experience of FDRs, FDAs and final hearings on ancillary relief matters.
• Clients who have unstable personalities, personality disorders, schizophrenia, autism, severe learning difficulties, and other mental and physical health difficulties. Clients who give instructions via the Official Solicitor; including both financial and child-related litigation where capacity is present for some parts of the litigation, but is lacking in others;
• Representation of particularly vulnerable children including those cases where children are also parents; Re W hearings etc;
• fact findings including serious sexual abuse allegations, neglect, domestic violence, rapes and threats to kill etc;
• Defended divorces;
• Emergency contested hearings, applications and injunctions in both private and public law;
• Foreign relocation, internal relocation, contact, residence
• Disclosure hearings in camera;
• Abduction of children
• and mirror-orders involving foreign jurisdictions;
• Cases involving disputes over translators and dialect, foreign cultures and the overseas dissolution of marriage;
• cases of implacable hostility; and such cases involving change of residence;

Association of Lawyers for Children

City University              BVC
Oxford Brookes University  CPE
Oxford University         Literae Humaniores