BANSA SINGH HAYER
Call 1988 Gray’s Inn
Areas of Practice
- Children (Public Law)
- Children (Private Law)
- Child Abduction and Leave to Remove
- Divorce and Matrimonial Finance
- Cohabitation disputes; TOLATA
- Court of Protection
Education
Inns Of Court School of Law
Lancashire Polytechnic LLB (Hons)
Profile
Bansa has practised exclusively in the field of family work for over 20 years.
In the field of public law children work Bansa is in particular demand for complex cases involving serious non-accidental injury and complex sexual abuse issues. He acts for parents, grandparents, children and local authorities and is often called upon to advise at an early stage in proceedings.
Bansa has a diligent and methodical approach. He has a calm and conciliatory nature qualifying as a mediator in 1999. This skill is highly effective in the often fraught and emotive atmosphere of child care work.
He is a powerful advocate with a reputation for rigorous cross-examination coupled with a straightforward, pragmatic approach. He produces high quality paper work.
Bansa also accepts instructions in complex private law children cases with a particular interest in international movement of children and child abduction.
Whilst Bansa is perhaps more widely known for his work in children cases he also has considerable experience in ancillary relief / Schedule 1 and TOLATA work and continues to do these cases on a regular basis.
He also provides seminars and lectures to solicitors, social workers and expert witnesses.
Notable Cases
- Re W (A Child) (non accidental injury: expert evidence) [2005] EWHC civ 1247; [2006] 1 FLR 543 – Hearing relating to i) the advisability of the court relying on a single expert in care proceedings, when the issue that expert has to address is of central importance to the judge’s findings, and ii) the propriety of permitting parents who deny abusing their child a second opinion.
- Oldham MBC v GW and PW [2007] EWHC 136 (Fam) – Judgment given in the course of care proceedings where a child, who had suffered a series of fits, after the parents had taken her to hospital, had been taken into care but the local authority subsequently sought to withdraw those proceedings in the light of differences between the medical experts acting in the case.
- GC v LD & Ors [2009] EWHC 1942 (Fam) – Judgment concerning which local authority should pay allowances in a case where a special guardianship order would mean a child moving to another authority.
- Re A & B (One Parent Killed by Another) [2010] EWHC 825 (Fam) – Guidance issued to family practitioners and the Court when confronted with the complexities involving the homicide of one parent by the other.
Professional Associations
Member of Gray’s Inn
Northern Circuit
Family Law Bar Association
Child Concern (Committee Member)