Meet the Team
Our Legal Team
Neveen Galal - Principal Solicitor
Neveen is the founder of Amnesty Solicitors. She has over 20 years experiences in immigration law and human rights. Neveen qualified as a solicitor in July 2005 shortly after completing her her legal studies. She is recognised in Who’s Who of Britains Business Elite. Prior to setting up Amnesty Solicitors, Neveen held a senior managerial position as Director and Head of Department at one of the countries largest law firms, where she specialised in immigration law. Neveen was one of the first solicitors to successfully challenge the detained fast-track scheme against the UK government in 2005.
In October 2015 she founded Amnesty Solicitors, a boutique law firm in the heart of the city of London. The firm focussing on all aspects of personal and business immigration, family law and wills and probate. She has an impressive success rate of winning immigration appeals, particularly in unusual and complex cases. She has successfully challenged the UK Home Office on cases including victims of trafficking and refugees, delays, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, procedural irregularity by the Home Office, investors and statelessness. As an appeal court advocate, Neveen has considerable experience of conducting advocacy before the Courts and Tribunals and at Judicial Review, including successfully judicially reviewing the Ministry of Justice.
Neveen is passionate about supporting minority groups in communities, particularly those who are vulnerable and may have suffered gender-based violence, domestic violence or people trafficking, to make sure their voice is heard and their rights are respected.
Neveen provides bespoke residence and citizenship solutions to High Net Worth clients across the Globe.
Her immigration advisory services are predominantly geared towards highly skilled workers and companies wishing to relocate to the UK.
Neveen also won the Outstanding Achievement Award as part of the Westminster Alumni Awards in 2021.
Nino Cuffaro - Private Client Solicitor
Nino is a qualified private client solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, an Affiliate Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and an elected member of the Law Society Council for the Small Law Firms Division. With an earlier background in accountancy and financial services, Nino is able to draw on personal experiences in business when advising his clients. Nino advises individuals, families and trustees in private client matters, including inheritance tax, capital gains tax and succession planning, private wealth structuring for high net worth and ultra high net worth individuals, helping his clients to put in place effective strategies to manage the long term stability and integrity of their estates.
As well as life time planning, Nino advises executors and trustees on post death planning, probate matters and the administration of estates. Nino also advises trustees, settlors and beneficiaries on the creation, administration and the governance of trusts and their taxation, as well as acting for international clients with real estate holdings in the UK. Nino acts as a professional executor and trustee and, has been appointed as an independent solicitor where estate conflicts arise.
Nino advises both UK and international clients on capital taxes and exemptions, and reliefs such as business, agricultural and charity reliefs.
As well as non contentious matters, Nino advises on contentious probate disputes, including removal of recalcitrant executors and has advised on complex issues such as disputes over who has burial rights in relation to a deceased person.
With a wealth of prior experience in the care sector, assisting families and vulnerable adults with their social care needs mental capacity challenges, Nino advises on matters concerning cognitive function, ranging from aggressive dementia to minor cerebral challenges, and general mental capacity issues, and offers advice on professional drafting and registration of lasting powers of attorney
Nino acts for families, advising on the protection of vulnerable persons and their decisions regarding both property and financial affairs and, health and welfare matters, and offers legal advice on Court of Protection deputyship applications. Nino has also advised clients who have been awarded large personal injury claims, the creation on personal injury and disabled trusts, and can act as a professional deputy.
Many of Nino’s clients have complex needs and he collaborates with colleagues across the firm, and his extensive network of financial advisers and accountants, to ensure his clients receive tailored solutions according to their needs.
