Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Family

Specialising in international family law solicitor Helen Newman is based in the Duncan Lewis Solicitors’ Tonbridge office.

With over 40 years work in the legal sector, she is a prominent solicitor practicing in international child abduction, having had a case heard in the Court of Justice of the European Union which is now firmly embedded into English national law.

Alongside her work concerning international child abduction, she undertakes other aspects of cross border and children law including relocation, wardship, care proceedings, and children cases with an international element.

She has been a guest speaker at The Conference on the Child Removal Proceedings in the Council of Europe Member States and related Human Rights Issues in 2014 and at the International Family Law Conference, Barreau de Paris in October 2014. Helen was also a guest speaker at a conference held at the Institute of Education of the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic in Omšenie on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The conference organised was by the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic, the Association of Friends of Children from Children´s Homes (Spoločnosť priateľov detí z detských domovov Úsmev ako dar) and the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic.

Helen joined Duncan Lewis Solicitors in 2019 after spending over thirty years at Pritchard Joyce and Hinds.

Helen speaks French.

Helen is a member of the International Child Abduction and Contact Unit (ICACU), the Child Abduction Lawyers’ Association (CALA), the Law Society’s Family Law Advanced scheme, and is on the Lawyers’ lists of the French Consulate in London.

Helen qualified as a solicitor in 1984.