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Barristers

Neelim Sultan

1MCB, London

Work Department

Family; International human rights; Crime

Position

Neelim is an established practitioner in criminal and public law children cases. She has also acted for families in inquests and deaths in custody.

She is a long-standing campaigner for community based legal services and was a founder member of the first neighbourhood barristers’ chambers in the UK.

Neelim is actively involved in the work of the International Bar Association and is currently a vice-chair of its Human Rights Law Committee, and an officer of the IBA’s LGBT Committee and the IBA’s Poverty and Social Development Committee. She has previously been a member of the IBA’s Presidential Task Force on Trafficking.

Neelim is head of the family law team at 1MCB.

Career

Called to the Bar 1993

Languages

Urdu/Hindi Punjabi

Memberships

Involved in the work of the International Bar Association – Human Rights Law Working Group, the IBA’s LBGT Committee and the IBA’s Poverty and Empowerment Committee. Former Member of the IBA’s Presidential Task Force on Trafficking.

Education

Law Degree Bar Vocational Course