Andrew Bagchi KC > 1GC | Family Law > London

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 has been described as 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 to other counties.

He has a broadly based practice in care and adoption proceedings and advises in complex child abuse and safeguarding investigations. He has also been involved in well over 100 reported cases.

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 the forthcoming conjoined appeal in the Court of Appeal in a series of parentage cases.

He has a vibrant practice in the financial aspects of family breakdown with a specialist interest in cases involving relevant conduct.

Andrew undertakes welfare, financial and medical work in the Court of Protection and is regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor and hospital trusts as well as family members who are caught up within such proceedings.

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

Recent notable Cases include:

G (A Child: Scope of Fact-Finding) [2025] EWCA Civ 1044 (31 July 2025)

Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board v AB & Anor [2025] EWCOP 24 (T3) (10 July 2025)

A Local Authority v A Mother & Ors [2025] EWFC 193 (10 April 2025)

W, Re ( Appeal: Fact-Finding) [2024] EWCA Civ 1590 (20 December 2024)

N, Re (Children: Fact Finding - Perplexing Presentation/Fabricated or Induced Illness) (Rev1) [2024] EWFC 326 (11 October 2024)

Z, Re (Infant Fatality) [2024] EWHC 618 (Fam) (18 March 2024)

T (Children: Non-Disclosure) [2024] EWCA Civ 241 (18 March 2024)

N, Re (Children: Findings Against A Professional Witness: Joinder or Intervention) [2024] EWFC 17 (B) (30 January 2024)

J v Luton Borough Council & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 3 (11 January 2024)

S (Children: Findings of Fact) [2023] EWCA Civ 1113 (04 October 2023)