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Neelim Sultan

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Work Department

Family; International human rights; Crime

Position

Neelim is an established practitioner in criminal and public law children cases. She has also acted for families in inquests and deaths in custody.

She is a long-standing campaigner for community based legal services and was a founder member of the first neighbourhood barristers’ chambers in the UK.

Neelim is actively involved in the work of the International Bar Association and is currently a vice-chair of its Human Rights Law Committee, and an officer of the IBA’s LGBT Committee and the IBA’s Poverty and Social Development Committee. She has previously been a member of the IBA’s Presidential Task Force on Trafficking.

Neelim is head of the family law team at 1MCB.

Career

Called to the Bar 1993

Languages

• Urdu/Hindi
• Punjabi

Memberships

• Involved in the work of the International Bar Association – Human Rights Law Working Group, the IBA’s LBGT Committee and the IBA’s Poverty and Empowerment Committee.
• Former Member of the IBA’s Presidential Task Force on Trafficking.

Education

• Law Degree
• Bar Vocational Course