Ms Leonorah Smith > Chambers of Oba Nsugbe KC > London, England > Barrister Profile
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LONDON
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Ms Leonorah Smith
Position
eonorah Smith is a family practitioner, who specialises in Children Act matters and in particular care proceedings, representing parents, children’s guardians and local authorities.
She has dealt with cases involving both physical and emotional abuse. This includes serious non-accidental injuries such as multiple fractures, shake and impact head injuries, sexual abuse, neglect and fictitious illness syndrome. She is particularly skilled at dealing with ethnic minorities and those with mental ill-health, personality disorders and learning difficulties.
Her expertise includes dealing with cases involving domestic violence, applying and resisting injunctions and occupation orders as well as contact and residence disputes.
She regularly acts for parents who wish to relocate overseas and apply for leave to permanently remove their children from the jurisdiction and for those who wish to resist such applications as well as international child abduction, wardship and forced marriage cases
Career
Call: 1993
Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association
Education
- BVC, Inns of Court School of Law
- CPE, Sussex
- BA, Surrey