SOBIA NAJMA

Sobia joined the firm with an understanding, knowledge and experience in both Civil Law and Family Law. She started her journey to accomplish a profession in Law, obtaining her Law degree from the University of Huddersfield. Since 2015 Sobia explored further avenues to broaden her skill set, aside from litigation, and started to provide advocacy to her clients at Court. This has proven to hugely assist her clients in terms on continuity and assurance that one lawyer is on the case from inception to completion. Sobia Qualified as a Charted Legal Executive (Lawyer) slightly later than anticipated in 2020, due to the recent Covid-19 Pandemic. However this did not stop her and she now has a large client base within her Family practice, which ranges from cases dealing with Child arrangements orders, Prohibited Steps Order, guardianship orders, Parental Responsibility Orders, Divorce, Financial Remedy and injunction orders.
Sobia acts in cases dealing with injunctions, representing both Applicants and Respondents. The cases typically involve proceedings concerning non-molestations orders and occupation orders. The nature of these application usually mean that she will need to prepare on an urgent basis and at time out of hours, which Sobia has really strived to achieve ensuring her cleints are not deprived of the legal advice and the representation they need to progress their case.
Sobia equally is equipped with the relevant knowledge and expertise to deal with your Divorce from start to finish including settling your finances, which is necessary to obtain a clean break order. She has dealt with a range of cases including high net worth divorces. In addition to financial remedy cases, Sobia undertakes cases relating to non-matrimonial finances such as TOLATA applications, whereby parties are not married but still hold a claim as they have cohabited. She also regularly acts in Private children cases involving allegations of domestic abuse, controlling coercive behaviour, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, emotional abuse and child abduction.
Sobia has also been instructed on cases involving a more complex nature dealing with child abduction both with a national and international element, where a parent wants the safe return of the child. These types of cases usually fall under the Hague Convention and typically require the High Court to become involved in the proceedings. Sobia has also fearlessly represented clients in relocation cases national/international. There is a lot of hard work required on these types of cases and Sobia is not one to shy away from fully devoting herself to her clients cases to get the best result possible, even if that means travelling to the Country to represent her clients as she last did in Latvia!
Given Sobia’s knowledge in Immigration Law, she has also swiftly handled those cases with immigration issues. Sobia is known for her strategic approach to these cases and has obtained excellent results in representing her clients. Either way, Sobia has the relevant experience needed to deal with complex maters of his nature, with commitment to deliver a high service and provide that extra support to her clients.