Andrew Bagchi KC

Andrew Bagchi KC specialises in the most complex cases involving the full range of family situations in the Family Court and the Court of Protection.

He is an approachable and versatile practitioner and has 35 years of experience of dealing in the legal consequences of relationship breakdown: divorce and its financial consequences, disputes relating to children including international issues, disputes as to jurisdiction, child abduction, disputes between unmarried parents about their children in relation to the ownership of property and finance. He has represented a number of fathers who have achieved a reunification with their children following false allegations of abuse.

Andrew has successfully represented clients both for and against applications to relocate children.

He has a broadly based practice in care and adoption proceedings and advises in child abuse and safeguarding investigations.

He was instructed in a landmark case in the Supreme Court (CN v Poole BC) as to the duties in tort owed by social services to children.

He is regularly instructed in appeals and is instructed in a conjoined appeal in the Court of Appeal in a series of parentage cases.

Andrew undertakes welfare, financial and medical work in the Court of Protection.

He regularly advises and appears in disputes relating to deputyship and powers of attorney and generally in the management of money.

LLB Kings College London.

Called:1989

Year of Silk: 2015

FLBA, COPPA, ALC

DIY Divorce and Separation: The Expert Guide to Representing Yourself (Jordans 2014) Contrib.

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