Sima Najma

Overview

Sima joined 2 King’s Bench Walk in January 2021, having secured Pupillage with Article 6 Law in October 2017, and successfully completing this in July 2018, becoming a tenant in chambers.

She specialises in engaging in all areas of Children Act, Family Law Act and Forced Marriage Protection applications. She has a particular eye for cases involving parental alienation, domestic violence and sexual offences within domestic relationships. Sima has a wealth of experience in complex relocation cases, intractable children disputes. She has also been instructed internationally on child abduction cases and safe return of children from countries in Europe, USA, China, Pakistan, India and the Middle East.

She also specialises in engaging in all areas of divorce and financial remedy proceedings including intervenor cases. She regularly undertakes cases relating to non-matrimonial finances such as TOLATA applications, cohabitation cases and civil-partnership issues.  Her practice involves dealing with asserts abroad on an international level. Using a creative and innovative approach to finding solutions to client’s financial matters on divorce, she is also an experienced and principled negotiator as well as an assertive and effective advocate.

Sima has a strong family law, human rights and immigration practice.  Sima has been an Immigration, Asylum and Human Rights practitioner since 2013.

Sima is able to speak a variety of languages fluently such as Urdu and Punjabi.  She prides herself on ensuring her cases are prepared to the best standard to achieve successful results for her clients.

Sima has expertise in Direct Public Access and is authorised to accept instructions from members of the public directly.  Sima works directly with her clients and can be instructed to provide written advice, advise in conference, and provide representation in court at a hearing, or at a settlement conference or mediation.