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Sylvia Vir Singh
Work Department
Family - Children,
Family - Finance
Position
Sylvia is a Family Law specialist and experienced in all fields.
In public law matters she represents local authorities, parents and extended families, and children and has a particular interest in cases involving complex medical evidence namely non-accidental head injuries; purported fabricated and/or induced illness; and alleged bone disease. She is developing a practice involving care and adoption cases with an international element.
Her practice includes matrimonial finance with an emphasis on cases involving significant assets; family owned businesses; trust structures and valuation issues.
Sylvia’s practice also includes international jurisdictional disputes and multifaceted private law applications including complex medical evidence and leave to remove children from the jurisdiction,difficult child arrangement applications involving proven sexual abuse, homicide, private adoptions, protracted contact cases and international relocation.
Sylvia regularly appears in the family court and carries out an increasing amount of litigation in the High Court.
Career
Sylvia read law at the University of London and was called to the Bar by Middle Temple Inn in 2001, having received the Jules Thorn Scholarship from the Inn to study the BVC.