Child Care and Family

Alia Lewis is a director within the family and child care department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors.

Alia’s expertise extends to all aspects of family law and she has a particular specialism in public law care cases and secure accommodation. Alia has extensive experience representing children through their guardian and through separate representation. She also represents parents, extended family members and interveners, and has conducted cases on behalf of the official solicitor.

Her cases involve a range of issues including; physical, sexual and emotional abuse; neglect; factitious illness; non-accidental injury; drug and alcohol addiction; domestic abuse; learning difficulties; mental illness; psychological disorders, and physical disability. She conducts numerous cases that have an international element and undertakes the majority of her own advocacy in order to provide a continuity of representation to her clients. She is also experienced in chairing experts meetings.

Alia qualified as a solicitor in 2006 and has been a partner level-director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors since 2012.

Alia is a member of the Law Society's Children Panel, and is also a member of Association of Lawyers for Children. She is a member of Resolution, as well as a member of NAGALRO - a professional association for social work practitioners who work in the children and families field and represent children in public and private court proceedings.

Alia completed the LPC at the Inns Court School of Law and has an LLB (Hons) from Middlesex University.