Wendy Ramus
Family Law Executive wr@dawsoncornwell.com
Wendy is a highly regarded Family Law Executive in the Children Department, specialising exclusively in private and public law children matters, child abduction, forced marriage and abandoned spouses cases.
Before joining Dawson Cornwell in 2001, she had already acquired extensive experience in the field of children law, as a caseworker in the Child Abduction Unit, as a Guardian at the Official Solicitors Office and as a policy adviser on child abduction and international legislation relating to children at the Lord Chancellors Department.
Wendy is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children.
She read French and Spanish at university and speaks intermediate French and Spanish.
- Shortlisted for Jordans Family Law Executive of theYear 2016
- Shortlisted for Jordans Family Law Chartered Legal Executive or Paralegal of the Year 2015
- Shortlisted by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO) for one of its annual True Honour Awards as a result of her work in the field of "Honour" Based Violence and Forced Marriage 2012
2020
2018
• Re X (A Child : FGMPO) (Rev 2) [2018] EWCA Civ 1825
2017
• Re: GP (wrongful removal) [2017] EWHC 1480 (Fam)
• C v G [2017] EWHC 762 (Fam)
2016
2014
• ZM v AM [2014] EWHC 2110 (Fam)
2013
• A v A [2013] EWHC 3554 (Fam)
• A v A [2013] EWHC 3298 (Fam)
• Re A [2013] UKSC 60
• Re ZA & Anor v NA [2012] EWCA CIV 1396
• A and D [2013] EWHC 2963 (Fam)
2011
• H v H (Jurisdiction to Grant Wardship) [2011] EWCA Civ 796
• Re A [2011] EWCA Civ 12 (Fact-Finding: Disputed Findings)
2010
• Re T [2010] 1FLR 1017
• Re T [2010] 1FLR 1026
• Re T [2010] 1FLR 1048
Determining jurisdiction: the two state process of transferring care proceedings and the designation of a local authority with Zoe Fleetwood, Family Law Journal (Legalease) (July/August 2013)
