Contact Details
Dawson Cornwell
11 Staple Inn
London
WC1V 7QH
England
- +44 207 242 2556
- sj@dawsoncornwell.com
- www.dawsoncornwell.com
Profile
Sulema is a dual qualified solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and an Advocate of the High Courts in Pakistan. Sulema undertakes all aspects of domestic and international family law including child abduction, child custody and the financial consequences of divorce and separation. She also acts for the victims of forced marriages, abandoned spouses and honour based violence. She has acted in several reported cases in superior courts in both England and Pakistan. Sulema is a specialist in Pakistani family law and has provided expert reports to courts across jurisdictions. Sulema graduated from Cambridge University in 2003. She completed her training contract and qualification at magic circle law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Sulema is a regular speaker at conferences and appears on television, including BBC, ITV, Pakistani media channels, the radio and in the press. Sulema is a visiting lecturer for "Gender and Development", part of the MPhil course at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge.
Languages Spoken: English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi
Practice Areas: Adoption, Appeals, Arbitration, Child Care/Public Law, Child Custody/Residence/Visitation/Contact, Child Support, Cohabitation, Collaborative Law, Divorce, Domestic Abuse/Violence/Protection Orders, Emergency Procedures/Injunctions, Enforcement: Child Custody, Enforcement: Child Support, Enforcement: Property Division, Enforcement: Spousal Support, Finance: Capital Provision, Finance: Insolvency, Finance: Pensions/Superannuation/Retirement and Employment Benefits, Finance: Property Issues, Finance: Trusts, Hague Convention/Child Abduction, Finance: Taxation, Mediation, Modification/Variation: Child Custody, Modification/Variation: Child Support, Modification/Variation: Property Division, Modification/Variation: Spousal Support, Parentage/Paternity, Pre-nuptial/Post-nuptial Agreements, Relocation/Removal from Jurisdiction, Same Sex Partnerships, Spousal Support/Maintenance/Alimony, Surrogacy
