Alev Giz

Practice Areas

Alev is a private and public child law specialist, regularly instructed in relocation cases (international/domestic) and in child arrangements disputes with particular expertise in representing children, through their guardians and separately. She also acts in Wardship and child abduction cases (Hague/non-Hague) and on behalf of parents, local authorities, children's guardians and children who have separated from their guardians in the most sensitive and complex public law cases involving serious inflicted injury, sexual abuse, complex medical issues, radicalisation, forced marriage, parental alienation and the withdrawal of medical treatment.

Alev has appeared in several landmark reported cases including the seminal Court of Appeal decision in Re F (A Child) (International Relocation Cases) [2015] EWCA Civ 882; the Court of Appeal authority on the separate representation of children: W (A Child) [2016] EWCA Civ 1051 and as advocate to the court in the recent Somerset adoption litigation.

Alev also acts in Court of Protection proceedings on the instructions of the Official Solicitor and family members. She successfully fought for the right of a terminally ill lady to be allowed to leave her care placement and die at home: VE v AO & Ors [2020] EWCOP 23 and represented the mother in the delicate and important case of London NHS Trust v CD & Ors (Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment) [2021] EWCOP 727.

Career

LLB (Hons) Kings College, University of London.

Called 1988 (Gray’s Inn)

Professional Memberships

FLBA, ALC, CALA, CPBA

Personal

Alev is a keen pianist, loves travelling, theatre and literature.