Tahmina is an experienced and highly regarded specialist Children practitioner. Her practice encompasses all aspects of both the Public Law and Private Law fields. Her cases have involved representing parties where babies suffer fractures, serious inflicted injuries in ‘witchcraft’ or ‘sorcery’ cases, a child at significant risk from gangs and a case involving sibling sexual abuse.
She regularly undertakes work in the Court of Protection and a wide range of financial remedy cases, including cases with significant expert evidence. Tahmina’s considerable experience in matrimonial finance cases, includes advising and representing clients in substantial asset and complex matters involving trusts, foreign assets, bankruptcy, inherited wealth and TOLATA claims.
Tahmina has experience over many years conducting complicated care cases for local authorities, parents and children. Many of her cases involve a scrutiny of complex medical evidence. She led a junior and successfully resisted an appeal before the President in the Family Division in which the Court was asked to provide guidance on the duties of local authorities in care proceedings and in cases involving relinquished babies to notify fathers and wider family in cases where a parent objects: Re A, B and C (Adoption: notification of Fathers and Relatives)[2020] EWCA Civ 41.
Tahmina represented a local authority before the Court of Appeal successfully appealing against a finding that the threshold for making a care order had not been made out: K (A Child): Threshold Findings [2018] EWCA Civ 2044.
Tahmina regularly represents parents and children in private law cases.
Tahmina sits as a Deputy District Judge authorised to hear civil cases and family cases, including financial remedy, public and private law cases. She is also a Fee-Paid Judge of the Employment Tribunal (at London South). She was formerly a fee-paid judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Special Educational Needs and Disability).
She is also a LexisNexis Case Analysis Expert Panel Member.
Tahmina is the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Chambers.
Year of Call: 2021
Deputy District Judge
Fee-Paid Judge of the Employment Tribunal
Family Law Bar Association
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
Law, University College London
Law School: Inns of Court School of Law (2001)