About
Shabina is a partner at Goodman Ray solicitors based in the London office. She has a practice in both domestic and international family law. She has been qualified for over a decade and has over 20 years of experience in the field of gender based violence. Shabina speaks fluent Bengali, Hindi and Urdu. She is also a certified user of Level 1 British Sign Language.
By way of summary, Shabina’s practice has included cases in the following areas:
- International child abduction under the Hague Convention
- Wardship Proceedings
- Proceedings Under the Inherent Jurisdiction of the High Court
- Forced marriage protection orders
- Female genital mutilation protection orders
- Transnational Marriage abandonment
- Complex child arrangements (including relocation cases),
- Domestic abuse and coercive control
International Child Abduction Specialist
Shabina is a Resolution accredited Specialist in Child Abduction. As an international family lawyer some of her notable and reported cases include representing clients from the North Americas, Greater Gulf Countries and Asia Pacific.
Forced and Child Marriage Specialist
She is Resolution accredited in Forced Marriage and Honour-based Violence. Shabina represents both children and vulnerable adults on applications for forced marriage protection orders and/female genital mutilation protection orders. She has secured the return of vulnerable women and girls from various parts of the world.
Shabina is a UN recognised expert of child, early and forced marriages in the UK. She was part of the pro – bono legal team who drafted the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022.
A well respected Family Lawyer
In 2025 Shabina was named as one of the Kindness & Leadership 50 leading lights in the UK. Shabina has been recognised by The Law Society as a Legal Hero in 2023. She won the Women of the Future Awards 2020 in the business category. She is also featured in Management Today’s “35 Women Under 35, 2020 ” List of Britain’s Brightest Young Business Leaders. She is described as an “exceptional lawyer” and a “pioneer in her field“.
International Speaker and Specialist Research
Shabina is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars, she was invited to Geneva in 2025 as the UK representative to participate in the global workshop on forced and child marriage. She was also invited to speak at the 16th session of the Commission on the Status of Women held by United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women in New York.
Some of her leading research includes tackling acid violence, child marriage and gender based violence on a global level. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2017 to undertake research on child marriage in the USA at Cornell University (Ivy League). In 2021 she was invited by the Senate of Mexico to share the findings of her research on child and forced marriage. In 2024 she was invited by the British Consulate General in Hong Kong to lead the Roundtable Discussion on Forced marriage and Child marriage.
She was a part time lecturer in law, she taught Sex and Gender in the Legal System and Legal Skills and Procedure at the University of Buckingham and Professional Skills and Ethics at the University of Greenwich.
