Ravi Kaur Mahey

Solicitor - Solicitor

SRA ID: 307650

Ravi is a Solicitor-Advocate and specialises and litigates in all areas of Children Law. She is a leading lawyer in her field and ranked in Chambers and Partners and is known for her creativity in her areas of expertise and referred to as the ‘doyenne of everything in relation to forced marriage and FGM’. Ravi qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and has since developed a specialism in acting in cases involving forced marriages, abandoned spouses, honour based violence and female genital mutilation (FGM). She has expertise representing children and young people in complex medical cases involving allegations of ‘baby shaking’, non-accidental injuries, attempted murder and factitious illness syndrome. Ravi undertakes the majority of her own advocacy in all levels of courts and especially in cases involving children in care, finding of fact hearings, wardship and cases with international elements. Ravi is committed to legal aid and pro bono work. She has worked in legal aid for most of her career and has been involved in running and supporting a variety of pro bono clinics and organisations over the years. She is passionate about raising awareness and understanding of neurodiversity and the impact of poverty on children. Some of the organisations that Ravi has worked with and supported include Not Beyond Redemption; Children Seen and Heard; 13 Community Clinics; Women’s Aid, MENCAP, Fathers Groups, the National FGM Clinic/Forward. Ravi is regularly invited to speak and provide training at events in relation to children law, charity work and neurodiversity. She has presented at the Family Law Bar Conference, at the Resolution National Conference where she was a keynote speaker on Neurodiversity and at a NAGALRO annual conference where the optic was poverty in care proceedings.