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Mahnoor is a specialist family barrister with a broad practice spanning financial remedies, private and public children law. She is regularly instructed in complex and sensitive cases at all levels, from the Family Court to the High Court and Court of Appeal, acting for applicants and respondents, local authorities, parents and children. Known for her meticulous preparation, pragmatic approach and confident advocacy, Mahnoor is equally adept at negotiating effective settlements and representing clients in contested proceedings.
Alongside her busy practice, she is a regular contributor to Family Law Week and the Financial Remedies Journal, and frequently delivers seminars on developments in family law.
Mahnoor's academic background is exceptional, having graduated top of her undergraduate cohort at the University of Manchester before receiving multiple scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn.
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, having advised up to the Court of Appeal and appeared in the High Court. She appears frequently in matters where separate or composite fact-finding exercises are undertaken and is particularly sought after where evidence is voluminous and requires careful forensic consideration, which led to Mahnoor appearing as sole counsel in two published fact-finding judgments within her first year of practice.
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. Most notably, she represented a local authority in Re E, where the Court of Appeal considered the correct approach to threshold, inter alia, where a child is placed outside of their family network regardless of whether a public law order is made.
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.
![Mahnoor Javed acts for the local authority in Re E (A Child) (Special Guardianship Order: Public Law Proceedings) [2026] EWCA Civ 1167](https://www.42br.com/_files/article/1083/1801-case-note-template-mj-sy.png)
The appeal raised the question of the approach the court should adopt when making an SGO at the conclusion of care proceedings, specifically in relation to threshold and where the realistic care options for the child are a choice between being placed outside of the family network or reunification with family.
Published: 1st Oct 2026
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