In this insightful expert seminar, Dr Jennifer Obaseki, founder and director of Obaseki Solicitors, looks at an extremely important societal issue which is often overlooked within the law, to give an -in-depth talk about central issues around female genital mutilation in the UK, looking:
- Defining FGM
- Common misconceptions
- Statistics, types of FGM and its consequences
- FGM Protection Orders
- Applying for FGMPOs
- Unwanted effects of FGM law
- Tackling FGM
Relevant laws
FGM Act 2003:
Serious Crime Act 2015:
Case law
R v Dharmasena, 2015
Z (A Child), 2017
Re X (A Child) (FGMPO), 2018
R v. N (FGM), 2019
Suffolk County Council v RD and MA (2020)
Dr Jennifer Obaseki is an award-winning solicitor. She manages teams specialising in immigration, civil litigation, negligence, family, crime, property and commercial law. She was most recently honoured with a doctorate degree in Law for her humanitarian activities.