Our work covers all areas of family law, with particular expertise in the following areas:
Edward Devereux QC (for the respondent) instructed by Dawson Cornwell, Mehvish Chaudhry & Paige Campbell (for ICFLPP) instructed by Bindmans appear before the Supreme Court in a seminal case which…
The Court of Appeal has handed down its decision in G (A Child), a groundbreaking decision concerning the complex interplay of asylum law & international child abduction.
Edward Devereux QC appeared…
The appeal concerned the decision of Roberts J at first instance to order the return of three children to the Republic of Ireland pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention. The…
Edward Devereux QC and Naomi Scarano succeed in the Court of Appeal in 1980 Hague Convention proceedings concerning return to a “third state” and protective measures. Mehvish Chaudhry appeared on…
Mehvish Chaudhry appears in Re S on behalf of the applicant mother instructed by Dawson Cornwell in a case concerning allegations of transnational abandonment and domestic abuse.
The judgment can…
Edward Devereux QC and Mehvish Chaudhry represented the father in an application for the summary return of two children to the USA before Susan Jacklin QC sitting as a Judge of…
Mehvish Chaudhry successfully upheld applications under The Children Act 1989 (CA) in Re Z (A Child) (FGMPO: Prevalence of FGM) [2017] EWHC 3566 (Fam).
Mehvish acted for Z, a young…
The judgement can be found here.
John Vater QC, Edward Devereux, Mehvish Chaudhry and Rob George appear in the Supreme Court case Re N (Children) [2016] UKSC 15.
The Supreme Court judgment concerning the applicability of…
Mehvish Chaudhry acted for the successful appellant mother as part of a legal team instructed by Freemans.
The Court considered the application of a lesbian parent for the return of…
The case concerned the rights of the non-biological mother of the child and the proper approach to determination of the English court’s jurisdiction to make orders in relation to the…
Mehvish Chaudhry in the Court of Appeal for case of F (Child’s Objections) (was Re N on appeal) [2015] EWCA Civ 1022 (14 October 2015).
Ms Anne Marie Hutchinson OBE,…