01/07/2025
Read moreFamily silk Andrew Bagchi KC joins PSQB as a door tenant
Leeds
0113 245 9763Andrew is ranked as Leading Silk in The Legal 500 (2026) for Court of Protection (Health and Welfare).
Andrew is regarded as one of the most versatile practitioners at the highest level, practising in all areas of family law and the law relating to incapacitated adults in the High Court and the Court of Protection. He has acted in over 120 reported cases.
He has been shortlisted for The Legal 500 Bar awards 2025 “Court of Protection Silk of the Year”.
Andrew brings a wide breadth of knowledge and experience to complex child abuse litigation with a particular interest in cases involving alleged murder, suspected inflicted head injury, FII and sexual abuse.
Andrew has a particular specialist interest in high conflict private law litigation and has secured excellent outcomes for both fathers and mothers making and facing allegations of domestic and sexual abuse and engaging in alienating behaviours, both a domestic and international arena. He also has recent experience of in the development of the court’s approach to modern family life and complex issues of parentage and parental responsibility.
Andrew enjoys acting in complex family finance proceedings and was recently instructed in complex financial remedy cases involving the division of a landed estate and the treatment of a valuable private company.
Children (Public Law)
Andrew regularly represents parents, children and local authorities in serious and complex care and adoption proceedings, often involving allegations of serious harm including, sexual abuse, factitious and induced illness, child death and brain injuries.
Children (Private Law)
In private law disputes, Andrew has a particular interest in cases with an international dimension, such as applications for the relocation of children to another jurisdiction or cases involving the status of foreign marriages or foreign divorce proceedings. He has recently achieved relocation orders in favour of clients seeking to relocate to Finland, USA and France. He was also successfully opposed relocation to USA and another part of the UK. Andrew also has an excellent reputation for acting in high conflict cases where the principle of contact is in issue either where there are allegations of serious parental misconduct. He recently achieved a transfer of residence for the father in an ‘alienation’ case and is currently acting in a number of further such cases.
International Family Law
Andrew regularly represents parties in international relocation cases and cases which give rise to the jurisdiction of the English court, either as a part of abduction proceedings or as a prelude to a relocation application. Andrew has a particular interest in international adoption and recently acted in a ground-breaking case which involved the common law recognition of a foreign adoption order which engaged the HRA.
Seminars, Publications & Training
Andrew lectures regularly on family law and Court of Protection related topics. For the past two years Andrew has conducted a seminar at the Judicial College for newly ticketed Court of Protection judges.
This year, lectures have included aspects of ADR, secure accommodation and deprivation of liberty, sex, marriage and the vulnerable adult and high conflict/parental alienation disputes.
He gave a webinar on “Court of Protection: Challenges, Easements and Suggestions during the Pandemic” as part of the 1GC Family Law Webinar series (April 2020).
Andrew is a co-author of DIY Divorce & Separation: The Expert Guide to Representing Yourself (Jordan Publishing), 2014