Vanket Appalakondiah

Family

Vanket is a director in the family and childcare department at Duncan Lewis Solicitors.

Vanket litigates across all areas of family law including divorce, ancillary relief, care proceedings, TOLATA (Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act), and domestic abuse. His specialities include financial claims, Schedule 1 applications, private law children and child abduction matters. He has acted on behalf of applicants in child abductions matters and also for respondents, and has successfully defended several applications for the return of children to the countries they were removed from.

He has also represented respondents in successfully challenging forced marriage applications. His notable cases include N’Suka Along in the case of Along v Mwanga. In relation to financial claims, Vanket has successfully set aside equitable charges by third parties and resisted warrant for possessions brought by mortgagees where the matrimonial homes were under the sole names of respondent spouses who failed to pay the mortgages.

Vanket studied at North London Polytechnic (LLB Honours) and the College of Law (Law Society Finals).