Aysha Chouhdary

Practice Areas

Aysha is a Senior Associate family law specialist solicitor with over 10 years’ experience. Whilst based in the Cardiff office, Aysha has a national role with many clients based in England and overseas.

Aysha has specialist experience in all areas of Family Law and provides holistic advice (including complex children matters, matrimonial finances, intervener disputes and TLATA/cohabitee cases) and is also able to offer clients advice regarding religious (specifically Shariah Law/Islamic Rulings), cultural and international issues. She is one of the very few family Lawyers nationally who specialise in this and has built up a strong relationship and reputation representing South Asian and International clients.

Aysha is multilingual and can speak several languages including Urdu, Mirpuri/Pothwari, Punjabi and Hindi which can help overcome any barriers with some clients.

Aysha is a committee member for South Wales Resolution and for the Cardiff & District Law Society’s Ethnicity Network. Aysha has also been appointed as Council Member for the Cardiff & District Law Society.

Aysha regularly features in the Wales Online’s Young Lawyers to watch list and has been included in the “35 under 35 top young business and professional women in Wales 2019” list. She was a Finalist and Winner of the Rising Star Award in the Welsh Women’s Awards 2022 and a Finalist for the Civil Lawyer of the Year Award at the Asian Legal Awards 2022. More recently, Aysha was Highly Commended in the prestigious Women & Diversity in Law awards 2023 (Rising Star).  She is a Finalist in the British Family Law Awards 2024 (Family Lawyer of the Year) and LexisNexis Family Law Awards 2024 (Family Law Associate Solicitor of the Year).

In addition, Aysha has been ranked as a “Recommended Lawyer” in the Legal 500. She has also been named as a top Family Lawyer in Cardiff by Wiselaw.