Naomi Angell

Practice Areas

Naomi Angell is a consultant at Osbornes Law and heads their adoption, surrogacy and fertility law unit.

She specialises in intercountry and domestic adoption, international and domestic surrogacy, fertility law and children’s cases with an immigration interface.

Naomi is recognised as a leader in her field in Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories.

She advises and represents children, birth parents and extended family members, intended parents in surrogacy cases, adopters and foster parents. In addition, she advises and acts as an expert witness to local authorities, foreign courts, lawyers and organisations involved in cross-border children’s cases.

Naomi combines her case work with involvement with family policy, working to bring about changes in law and practice that she can see from her cases are necessary.

Career

In 1981, the International Year of the Child, Naomi set up the Children’s Legal Centre and, in 2013, was invited to take up the position of Patron at the centre.

Naomi was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 Family Law Awards. She also is a previous recipient of the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Family Law Awards. 

Osbornes is an approved legal partner of the leading surrogacy organisation, My Surrogacy Journey, which helps couples and individuals exploring international surrogacy. Naomi also appears in the Tatler Advisory Address Book as a recommended lawyer. 

Naomi has been a member of many influential national committees including chairing the Family Law Committee of the Law Society and the Faster Family Justice Committee at the Law Society.

Work Highlights

She chaired a panel for one of the leading national adoption agencies.