Barrister

About

Mahnoor has experience across the spectrum of private and public family law.

Practice overview 

Within financial remedies, Mahnoor is as comfortable negotiating a settlement as she is pursuing or contesting an application in contested proceedings, at both the interim and final stages, including where enforcement and/or variation become live issues and where there are overlapping cross-applications. Her experience ranges from high value cases to cases where there is a modest asset base. She also accepts instructions in TOLATA and Schedule 1 matters.

Mahnoor has a breadth of experience within Section 8 proceedings, including those where separate or composite fact-finding exercises are undertaken. She is accustomed to appearing on behalf of both applicants and respondents. Many of her cases include elements of coercive and controlling behaviour, trauma, addiction and substance/alcohol misuse, as well as allegations of both alienation and justified rejection.

Mahnoor has been instructed at all stages of public children proceedings up to the High Court (including within FDAC) and has appeared on behalf of local authorities, parents and subject children through their guardians. She has experience in highly complex matters including but not limited to matters where there are allegations of non-accidental injury and issues of capacity as well as so-called ‘threshold cases’, which are of particular interest to Mahnoor both in principle and due to the fact-finding element.

Mahnoor is regularly published in Family Law Week and the Financial Remedies Journal and enjoys delivering seminars. She graduated at the top of her undergraduate cohort at the University of Manchester with an ‘unheard of’ average and won numerous academic awards, as well as an award for her commitment to increasing access to Classics in state schools as a Latin teacher and for her ‘excellent’ teaching. She then received multiple scholarships to undertake an MPhil in Classics, including a major research studentship at Newnham College, Cambridge and a research grant awarded by the Isaac Newton Trust to only forty Humanities graduate students across the University. She completed her Graduate Diploma in Law as a scholar of Lincoln’s Inn and with a further scholarship from Newnham College, Cambridge. She was a major and residential scholar at Lincoln’s Inn at the time of her BPTC.

Education

City Law School, BPTC
BPP Manchester, Graduate Diploma in Law
University of Cambridge, Newnham College, MPhil (Classics)
University of Manchester, BA (Ancient History)

Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Lincoln’s Inn 

Languages

Hindi (native)
Urdu (native)
Punjabi (native)
Potohari (native)
Latin (academic/reading)

Awards

2019/20 Lord Denning Scholarship, with residential status (Lincoln’s Inn)

2018/19 Brougham Scholarship (Lincoln’s Inn)

Newnham College Kemp Fund Grant (University of Cambridge)

2017/18 Newnham College Major Research Scholarship (University of Cambridge)

Isaac Newton Trust Research Grant (University of Cambridge)

2016/17 Manchester Classical Association’s Whitehead Prize for commitment to improving access to Classics in state schools and ‘excellent’ teaching

Classical and A.H.Kyd Prize in Classics (University of Manchester)

Faculty of Humanities Dean’s Award for Achievement (University of Manchester)

2015/16 Victoria Prize (first prize) for academic achievement (University of Manchester)

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