Priti Shah

Associate Solicitor
Priti Shah
Priti qualified as a solicitor in 2002 and joined the Family Team at ITN Solicitors in April 2026 as an associate solicitor. 

Priti has worked exclusively in family law since qualifying and has focused her work on public law children cases since becoming a Law Society Children Panel Accredited member in 2019.  She represents children, from newborn to teenagers, either through their guardian or on occasion, separately. 

Priti has also represented parents and wider family members in both public and private children law proceedings.  Her experience includes representation in domestic abuse and forced marriage protection order cases.

Priti aims to conduct her own advocacy at all levels, including in the High Court.

Priti is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children, the Law Society's Ethnic Solicitors Network, the Law Society's Women Solicitors Network, Society of Asian Lawyers and the Association of Asian Women Lawyers.

She is fluent in Gujarati and Hindi and conversational Urdu and Punjabi.

Prominent Cases

  1. Representing the father:
A Mother v A Father [2023] EWFC 105 (B) (14 April 2023)
A Mother v A Father - Find Case Law - The National Archives
Priti and counsel represented the father pro bono within private law children proceedings, which included representing him in a fact finding hearing.  This report relates to an application for a costs order made by the mother following the fact finding hearing and also the mother’s application to remove the father’s parental responsibility for the parties’ child.  The mother was successful in both applications.
 
  1. Representing the child ‘MM’:
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham v The Father & Ors [2023] EWFC 112 (B) (07 June 2023)
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham v Father & Ors - Find Case Law - The National Archives
Priti represented one of the subject children, who had made allegations of sibling sexual touching.  This report follows a fact finding hearing, where the judge was unable to make findings, noting that the child’s account had been ‘muddied and tainted’ by the process and referred to breaches in the ABE process. 
 
  1. Representing the child ‘Thomas’
London Borough of Newham v Emma & Ors [2024] EWFC 29 (B) (09 February 2024)
The London Borough of Newham v Emma & Ors - Find Case Law - The National Archives
Priti represented one of the subject children, through his children’s guardian.  The local authority invited the court to make care and placement orders.  Whilst the guardian supported a care order being granted, she opposed the care plan of adoption.  The judge noted ‘blurred sexual boundaries’ within the family and it was found, by adverse inference and subsequent DNA testing of extended family members, that the child’s maternal grandfather was also his biological father.
 
  1. Representing the child ‘MM’:
A Local Authority v Father & Ors [2024] EWFC 424 (B) (25 June 2024)
A Local Authority v Father & Ors - Find Case Law - The National Archives
Priti represented one of the children.  The care plan was for her to remain in long term foster care under a care order, which was opposed by the father and supported by the child’s guardian.  Given the child’s needs, she required more than ‘good enough care’ and the court granted the care order and approved the care plan.  The sibling, who was separately represented by a solicitor and guardian, was made subject to a supervision order.
 
  1. Representing the child:
A (Child : Fact Finding Hearing) [2025] EWFC 219 (B) (03 June 2025)
A (Child) Fact Finding Hearing, Re - Find Case Law - The National Archives
Priti represented a child in care proceedings, where the judge had to determine whether the child had sustained a non-accidental injury.  Findings were not made against the mother and on the basis that it was a single issue case, the proceedings came to an end at the conclusion of the fact finding hearing.
 
  1. Representing the children:
A & B (Children) (Fact Finding Hearing), Re - Find Case Law - The National Archives
Priti represented the two children subject to care proceedings.  The issue revolved around whether the father had entered into sexual communication with a 14 year old and this was determined during a fact finding hearing.  The court made findings against the father.   ;