Expertise and experience
Ritu is a family law solicitor specialising in children law and adoption applications.
She represents children of all ages through their appointed Guardian and also separately, parents, grandparents, foster carers and other family members involved in local authority care and adoption proceedings.
She also assists families who are in dispute about the arrangements for children regarding residence, contact, parental responsibility, prohibited steps and specific issue orders.
The types of cases that Ritu has been involved in include:
- care proceedings relating to applications for placing a child into the care of the local authority;
- representing children, through their appointed Guardian and separately, parents and other associated people in court in relation to applications for supervision or care orders;
- applications for making of emergency protection orders where the safety of a child is at risk;
- assisting foster carers and other family members to secure special guardianship orders and negotiate their support package;
- representing parents, children and grandparents within adoption proceedings where there is an objection to the adoption order being made; and
- cases relating to child abduction and removal from the jurisdiction.
Ritu is recognised as a ‘recommended lawyer’ in the 2025 Legal 500 for her work in care proceedings alongside private law children work. Her experience in advising guardians is also mentioned.
Practice areas
- Non-accidental injury to children
- Fabricated or induced illness in children
- Supervision orders
- Secure accommodation orders
- Emergency protection orders
- Contact with a child in Local Authority care
- Child protection investigations
- Forced marriage
- Female genital mutilation
- Obtaining legal responsibility for a child
- Care orders
- Adoption
