Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Family and Child Care

Family and child care director, Krina Parmar, specialises in public and private law children matters with significant expertise in; forced marriage applications; female genital mutilation (FGM) applications; emergency matters such as removal of children and domestic abuse and forced marriage applications. Many of her cases are culturally complex cases with international aspects.

Krina represents parents, family members and children as parties to applications for child arrangement orders, special guardianship orders, child abduction matters, adoption proceedings and care proceedings to include serious non-accidental injuries where a baby has died. She represents and is regularly instructed on high profile non-accidental injury cases and has been led by both Junior Counsel and Queens Counsel in these cases.

Krina undertakes all her own advocacy, where possible, to ensure clients are given a continuous and consistent service. Krina also frequently trains professionals in the areas of domestic abuse, forced marriages and FGM.
Krina has considerable experience representing victims of domestic abuse, and in dealing with vulnerable clients and those with learning disabilities. Additionally, Krina attends pro bono surgeries for Women’s Aid; local contact centres and has a strong relationship with victim support and the police. She is also a police station accredited representative.

In 2020 Krina was shortlisted for the Family Law Lawyer of the Year at the LALY Awards and Family Law Partner of the Year at the Family Law Awards.

Krina qualified as a solicitor in 2009 and has been a partner-level director at Duncan Lewis Solicitors since 2013.

Krina speaks fluent Gujarati.

Krina is a member of the Children Law Panel.

Krina obtained her LLB in Law and her LLM Masters in Law from Kingston University. She achieved her LPC at the College of Law, Birmingham.