Dawson Cornwell LLP

Children

Partner specialising in international children work: child abduction, jurisdiction disputes, registration and enforcement of foreign contact orders, leave to remove, contact, adoption, cross borders placement and public law cases. She also has experience in the law relating to surrogacy (both domestic and international), family formation and assisted reproduction rights.

Qualified Spanish abogado 2003; qualified solicitor 2006; partner Dawson Cornwell 2009. She is the elected Vice President of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, Vice President of ASIME (Spanish Association Child Abduction Lawyers), Vice President of AIJUDEFA (Association of Spanish Speaking Jurists), member of Resolution International Committee, Steering Committee expert for EU project VOICE of the Child in Child Abduction proceedings, elected (former) President of Westminster and Holborn Law Society (2019), President of Human Rights Commission Union Internationale des Avocats UIA, Reunite International Legal Policy Group member. She is frequently consulted by Spanish speaking media on international children Law. Regular speaker in international conferences and universities as visiting professor.

Fluent in Spanish and Italian.

Resolution Accredited Specialist in child abduction and children law; International Academy of Family Lawyers; Resolution; CALA; ASIME;  AEAFA; Appointed Commissioner in London by Bar Association Murcia, Spain.

IB Beniajan, Murcia, Spain; University of Murcia and University Studio de LLA Magna Graecia, Italy (Law), selected to participate in the exchange program between The Law Society and The Bar Association of São Paulo (2015), selected by the USA embassy in UK to participate in their State Department International Visitors Leadership Program (2016)

Reading and fashion. Author of Spanish publication "Sustracción de Menores y el proceso de restitución del menor", prefaced by Spanish International Liaison Judge. Co-author of manual about legal effects of Brexit and another on comparative studies on divorce published in Spain.