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                                                                                                      Maria-Amália Walker

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                                                                                                      Telephone 020 7831 0222
                                                                                                      Email amalia.walker@42br.com

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                                                                                                      Introduction

                                                                                                      Family law with the following principal areas of practice:

                                                                                                      • Financial Remedies
                                                                                                      • Nuptial Agreements
                                                                                                      • Financial applications for children under the Children Act 1989
                                                                                                      • Applications under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
                                                                                                      • Private and Public law Children Act matters
                                                                                                      • Child support appeals
                                                                                                      • Family violence

                                                                                                      Accreditations

                                                                                                      • “Maria-Amália practises exclusively in family law with an emphasis on matrimonial and schedule 1 financial claims, together with complex private and public law children cases”

                                                                                                      Professional memberships

                                                                                                      • Family Law Bar Association
                                                                                                      • Family Mediators Association
                                                                                                      • Bar Pro Bono Unit
                                                                                                      • Inner Temple

                                                                                                      Selected cases

                                                                                                      • CTL (Children: Fact finding: Protection from Sexual Harm), Re Family Division, 01 March 2013 [2013] EWHC 2133 (Fam)
                                                                                                      • Traversa v Freddi Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 14 February 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 81; [2011] Fam. Law 464
                                                                                                      • Traversa v Freddi [2010] EWCA Civ 640 (Part III MFPA 1984)
                                                                                                      • K v K & Ors [2008] EWHC 1561 (Fam)

                                                                                                      Publications

                                                                                                      • Contributor to Rights of Women publication
                                                                                                      • “From A to Z: A Woman’s Guide to the Law” [2006]

                                                                                                      Education

                                                                                                      • Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks
                                                                                                      • University College, London
                                                                                                        BA (Hons) Geography
                                                                                                      • City University
                                                                                                        Postgraduate Diploma in Law
                                                                                                        MA in Law
                                                                                                      • Inns of Court School of Law
                                                                                                        Bar Vocational Course

                                                                                                      Other information

                                                                                                      • Maria-Amália is married with three young children, and lives in London
                                                                                                      • Interests include theatre, art and travel

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