Ayesha Hasan

Ayesha practices in all aspects of family law with some specialist knowledge in Islamic law. She is renowned for her tenacity and fearless advocacy in court.

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1987 Gray's Inn call 
LL.M (Hons) Cantab
LL.B (Hons) Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
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Degree/University
LL.M (Hons) Cantab
LL.B (Hons) Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria
Scholarships/awards/prizes
Jurisprudence prize
Best overall Student prize
Memberships
FLBA (Committee Member)
CEBA
Member of the Punjab Bar, Lahore, Pakistan
Areas of Practice
Ancillary relief
Public children law
Private children law
Forced Marriage
Recognition of foreign marriages with particular emphasis on Islamic marriages/ divorces
Domestic violence
Child abduction
Reported Cases
Re P ( Contact: Supervision) [1996] 2FLR 314,
Re S [2001] 2 FLR 507,
Re K ( committal) [2003] 1 FLR 277,
S v S and M ( existence of constructive trust and proprietary estoppel) [2007] 1 FLR 1123
Re H ( talaq and divorce) [2008] 2 FLR 857,
R v E and F female parents : Known father)[2010] 2 FLR 383
Chief Constable, A v YK and ors ( forced marriage) [2010]EWHC 2438
Languages
Urdu ( fluent)
Hausa ( working knowledge)
Outside Interests
Loves the theatre and swimming
Articles
"Islamic Family Law in the English Courts" (1998) Fam Law 100
"A Brief Introduction to Marriage in Islamic Law" (March 1999) Fam Law 164
"Contact and illegitimacy in the Muslim Community" (Dec 2000) Fam Law 928
"To tell or not to tell, that is the question" (May 2008) Fam Law 458. (When can it be in the child’s interests not to know its true parentage?)
 

An Englishman abroad

Mark Jones explores the tricky issue of domicile of origin over domicile of choice in Morris v Davies

 

The recent decision of the High Court in the case of Morris v Davies [2011] EWHC 1773 (Ch) emphasised the tenacious nature of a person's domicile of origin and the intensely fact-based approach to considering assertions of substitution of the same by an alternative domicile of choice.

The dispute arose from the administration of the estate of the late Owen Davies, who was born in England on 1 November 1963 and who died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Paris on the 26 November 2008, aged just 45. What happened thereafter informed much of the considerable antipathy in the case and the media interest at the time of the trial, where those close to the deceased agreed to and did conceal the fact of his death and his funeral from his family, with such a degree of success that for several months after both events they remained in complete ignorance.

 

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The Dowry in law

"The Dowry in law" by Miss Suki K Johal,

Barrister at 3 Dr Johnson's Building. Temple. London

In recent years there has been a proliferation of cases in the English courts on the issue of Indian dowries particularly in areas of high Asian population. The Oxford English Dictionary broadly defines dowry as encompassing 'money or property the wife brings with her to the husband's home; the portion given with the wife; a present or gift given by a man to or for his bride'. The Chambers English Dictionary provides 'the property which a woman brings to her husband at marriage; sometimes a gift given to or for a wife at marriage'. These definitions provide that dowry has two constituents- the giving of property to the bride from parents and kin and the giving of jewellery from the in-laws.

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