Farhat Akbar-

Farhat has specialised in the area of Family Law since qualifying as a solicitor in 1998. Her caseload covers a broad range of family law: divorce, ancillary relief, private and public law children act cases, domestic violence and cohabitees’ disputes. Prior to joining the firm, Farhat was salaried partner and supervisor/head of the family department in a medium sized practice covering both publicly and privately funded cases. During this time she has undertaken many high profile cases in the High Court, Family Division, ranging from wardship and tracing child’s whereabouts, to children’s issues involving inter-relationship of English law and jurisdiction of non-Hague Convention countries. Other high profile cases include complex ancillary relief cases, including a recent successful case in the Court of Appeal. Farhat has been a member of the Law Society Family Law Panel since July 2005. She is also a mentor on the Law Society Mentoring Scheme.