“The Donegal-born internationally renowned family lawyer, Anne-Marie Hutchinson, has died after a long illness. A trailblazing lawyer who acted for victims of child abduction, forced marriages, honour-based violence, female genital mutilation and abandoned spouses, Hutchinson won the International Bar Association Outstanding International Woman Lawyer Award in 2010 and was named one of the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers in 2013. At the time of her death, she was a partner of the London family law firm Dawson Cornwell and head of its children’s department. She received the inaugural Unicef Child Rights Lawyer Award in 1999 one year after she joined Dawson Cornwell.”

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