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Anu joined FOURTEEN as a tenant after successful completion of her pupillage in October 2024. She maintains a busy practice across all areas of family law.

Anu prides herself on her thorough preparation, her keen eye for detail and commitment to her work. She has excellent client care skills and will go the extra mile to explain complex concepts and proceedings to lay clients with clarity and simplicity. Her approachable manner and experience in working with mental health service users allows her to quickly build rapport with vulnerable lay clients. She has been instructed by the Official Solicitor where her lay client lacked litigation capacity.

Anu is frequently instructed in financial remedy proceedings at all stages including final hearing. She has provided advice and representation in an application for financial relief after a foreign divorce under Part III of the MFPA 1984. In private children proceedings, Anu is regularly instructed in cases involving allegations of alienating behaviours, domestic abuse including sexual abuse. She has also appeared in the High Court on a matter involving a question of forum conveniens.

Outside of her practice, Anu sits as a Board Member of Bridging the Bar, a charity committed to improving diversity at the Bar.

Before completing pupillage, Anu worked for the Inns of Court College of Advocacy as well as Bridging the Bar and carried out work in non-legal roles such as project management and recruitment within mental health social work.

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Called 2023

Family Law Bar Association Middle Temple

King’s College London, English Law LLB King’s College London, Mental Health, Ethics & Law MSc Inns of Court College of Advocacy, Bar Practice Course