SIMONE BOWMAN

Professional Background 

Simone Bowman has worked in legal practice for over 20 years starting as a paralegal in civil actions against the police and prison authorities. She qualified as a solicitor in 2008 and worked for 7 years as Supervising Solicitor at the Legal Advice Centre (University House) Bethnal Green. Simone is a passionate advocate who uses her strong analytical skills and attentive preparation to achieve the best results for her lay clients.

Family Law

Simone has vast experience with disputes relating to complex child arrangements, domestic and sexual abuse allegations as well as parental alienation. She also accepts instructions for occupation and non molestation orders. Simone is proficient in matrimonial finance cases as well as property trusts disputes. Simone also accepts instructions relating to child maintenance, welfare benefits and council tax disputes. 

Simone is regularly asked to provide in-house training to junior solicitors and paralegals on best practices for preparing cases from instructions to final hearings as well the law and procedure for dealing with cross jurisdiction Caribbean related matters.

Caribbean Law

Simone is a practicing Attorney at Law in various islands in the Caribbean. In 2017, during completion of her Post Graduate Certificate of Legal Education from the Norman Manley Law School, University of West Indies, she trained with the esteemed Lord Anthony Gifford KC, a Jamaican based Attorney at Law. She accepts instructions to represent overseas clients with issues arising from breaches of Attorney’s professional ethics, constitutional laws, Inheritance Act and land dispute transactions. Please see below cases where she was leading Counsel and led by Queen’s Counsel.

Notable Cases 

Hortswood v AG of St Kitts & Nevis Claim No. SKBHCV2016/0134

Williams V AG of St Kitts Claim No. SKBHCV2019/0132

Areas of Expertise

Private Children

• Domestic Abuse
• Financial Remedies
• Pre Nup agreements
• Caribbean Law

Languages 

French

Professional Memberships 

• Resolution
• Family Law Bar Association
• Commonwealth Lawyers Association

Bar Admission

• 2017 Jamaica, Barbados
• 2018 St Kitts & Nevis
• 2019 Guyana
• 2021 St Lucia
• 2022 Antigua, Grenada