Seema has worked on many high-profile cases involving parental alienation, implacable hostility, fabricated illness, serious sexual assault, serious non- accidental injury, radicalisation issues and domestic abuse/controlling coercive behaviour. Seema advises on forced marriage, radicalisation cases, domestic abuse, child abduction, sexual abuse, in the course of her work dealing with private law proceedings and applications for leave to remove connected to financial proceedings.. She is instructed in complex child-arrangement cases including parental alienation/parental hostility and is able to cut through the evidence in the case to achieve the result for her client. She is instructed by both mother’s and father’s in relation to various claims under the children act and always has the interests of their case at the forefront of her mind.

Seema has a busy practice in matrimonial finance matters, contested TOLATA cases and high-profile Schedule 1 claims. She has experience of all aspects of financial remedy proceedings, along with, private FDR’s and arbitration work with a special emphasis on cases involving cryptocurrency and hidden assets.

Her work undertaken includes financial remedies ancillary to divorce/dissolution of civil partnership, including cases involving:

• Trusts (both onshore and offshore)
• Jurisdictional disputes
• Company/business assets
• Non–matrimonial property
• Foreign property
• Disputes over property owned by third parties
• Non-Disclosure
• Enforcement
• Clients without mental capacity
• Conduct
• Freezing Injunctions
• Property disputes relating to cohabitees
• Schedule 1 Claims

Seema acts in proceedings with an international element.

Seema frequently argues jurisdiction points in international matrimonial finance cases and is regularly instructed in applications under MFPA 1984. She has a busy international child abduction practice frequently instructed in Hague and Non-Hague matters. She is currently instructed counsel in a long-running abduction case appearing against leading counsel. She is well versed in the law on disclosure especially as it relates to child trafficking/forced marriage cases.

Reported case: E v D [2022] EWHC 1216 (Fam) (12 April 2022)