Naomi Angell
Naomi Angell specialises in all areas of children’s law and in particular international and domestic adoption, children’s cases with an immigration interface, child protection, surrogacy and other fertility law cases.
She joined Osbornes in 2002 as a Consultant having previously been a partner for 20 years in Bindman & Partners and then in Goodman Ray Solicitors. She is recognised as a leader in her field in Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
Naomi has always combined her case work with involvement with family policy, working to bring about changes in law and practice that she can see from her cases are necessary. In 1981, the International Year of the Child, she set up the Children’s Legal Centre. In 2013 she was invited to take up the position of Patron at the centre.
She has sat on many influential national committees including chairing the Family Law Committee of the Law Society and the Faster Family Justice Committee between 2011 & 2014 and remains a member of the Family Law Committee.
She has regularly briefed and given evidence to select committees of both Houses of Parliament on family law and access to justice issues in general and adoption law and practice in particular. Most recently she is a member of a working group aiming to pilot a dedicated new court for migrant & trafficked children which crosses these children involvement in family, crime and immigration law.
She regularly writes, lectures and contributes to the media on children and family law matters.
“Naomi Angell is the first person whom applicant adopters should go to for foreign adoption advice,” according to sources, and she is also described as “hugely experienced, calm and a good listener.” She continues to expand her practice in international surrogacy work”
What the directories say:
“Naomi Angell is a leading name in international adoption”
Legal 500 2019
“Naomi Angell is a leading figure in domestic and inter-country adoptions, and also has expert knowledge of related fertility and surrogacy issues.”
Chambers & Partners 2019
“Naomi Angell is phenomenal. She’s done it for so long and knows so much that she’s a fount of knowledge. If Naomi doesn’t know something, it isn’t worth knowing.”
Chambers & Partners 2019
“Naomi Angell is one of the country’s foremost specialists in domestic and international adoption issues. She is also noted for her experience in surrogacy and broader fertility work. Sources say that she definitely knows her onions when it comes to matters involving bringing children into the country.”
Chambers & Partners 2018
“Naomi Angell ‘continues to be one of the most experienced adoption and surrogacy lawyers around.”
Legal 500 2017
“Naomi Angell is the doyenne of inter-country adoption and the font of all knowledge in this area.”
Chambers & Partners 2016
“Highly respected for her [Naomi Angell] focused on cross-border children work, including surrogacy matters.”
Chambers & Partners 2016
“Naomi Angell advises on international adoptions and complex surrogacy matters. She is commended for her “broad, in-depth experience.”
Chambers & Partners 2015
“Naomi Angell leads the market in cross-border children law matters. Sources confirm that she is “at the cutting edge of changing law and policy” when it comes to international adoption”.
Chambers & Partners 2014
“Naomi is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable solicitors on adoption law generally and inter-country adoptions in particular. She is at the forefront of charitable work and policymaking relating to adoption and private law children cases”.
Chambers & Partners 2013
International adoption specialist Naomi Angell “is the first person whom applicant adopters should go to for foreign adoption advice,” according to sources, and she is also described as “hugely experienced, calm and a good listener.”
Chambers & Partners 2012 legal directory
Inter-country adoptions and surrogacy expert Naomi Angell is ‘a highly skilled and competent practitioner’.
Legal 500 2012
