Irene is a solicitor in our Family and Matrimonial team.
Irene is a solicitor in the family department and has broad experience in all areas of family law. She advises clients about separation, divorce and any financial arrangements which might need to be made as part of that process, with a keen interest in divorces with international and/or criminal elements.
Irene also advises parents about arrangements for their children, including where there are disagreements about where a child should live, who they should spend time with and other disputes about their upbringing.
She gained invaluable experience working on a wide range of private and public law children cases representing parents, local authorities and children’s guardians. These cases often involved aspects of domestic abuse, drug and alcohol misuse, mental health, non-accidental injury, and Deprivation of Liberty (DOLS), as well as international children proceedings involving wardship, FGM, transnational spousal abandonment and recognition and enforcement of foreign orders.
Irene has worked in the Bindmans family department since March 2021, first as a paralegal, and then as a trainee solicitor, qualifying as a solicitor in September 2024. During her training contract, Irene worked on complex HNW divorce and financial remedy cases involving international assets and complex business structures. She has also experience of jurisdictional arguments in international divorces.
Irene elected to do a six-moth rotation seat during her training contract in the firm’s Crime team. She worked on a wide variety of serious and complex criminal law cases to include sexual offences, terrorism, protest-related criminal allegations and international law involving serious human rights allegations, strengthening her understanding of criminal law. She has a keen interest in criminal cases that have a family law cross over.
Irene has a particular interest in financial remedy cases involving criminal elements and has experience of cases where marital assets are subject to criminal investigations or have become proceeds of crime.
Education and career
- Irene studied the LLB in law at the University of Warwick and completed the LPC at BPP University.
- She has a Masters in Medical Law from King’s College London.
- Irene has previously worked as a paralegal in consumer law, faulty medical devices, product safety and personal injury and has also worked as part of an NHS in-house legal team.
- She has also gained worked experience in matrimonial law in a law firm in Athens, Greece.
- Irene joined Bindmans as a paralegal in 2021.
- She became a trainee solicitor in March 2023 and qualified in September 2024.
Experience
Irene has supported solicitors who worked on:
- Re H-N and Others (children) (domestic abuse: finding of fact hearings) [2021] EWCA Civ 448.
- Re A (A Child: Findings of Fact) [2022] EWCA Civ 1652.
Professional memberships
- Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL)
More about Irene
- Irene has a keen interest in promoting access to justice and upholding human rights. She was part of Warwick Pro-Bono Society and worked on a project called ‘Youth Inspire’ teaching young children about human rights injustices in history and the importance of human rights today. During her time at Warwick, she also worked on the Death Penalty Project, assisting US attorneys in their case load dealing with defendants on Death Row.
- Irene volunteers at Temple Legal Clinic assisting with pro bono work in family law.
- Irene has an interest in medical decisions involving children and focused on this during her academic studies in medical law.
- Irene is fluent in Greek.
