Philip Baggley

Degree:

BA (Oxon) Jurisprudence (First Class Honours)

Year of call and Inn:

2009; Gray's Inn (Scholar); Tutor's Prize for best overall performance on the BVC; University of the West of England (graded Outstanding)

Professional Membership:

Western Circuit; FLBA

Email:

philip.baggley@albionchambers.co.uk

Specialist Areas:

Child Law

Practice Overview:

Philip Baggley specialises in child law including public and private children and injunctive proceedings.

Areas of Practice

Child Law

Tab 1 Title:

Philip covers all aspects of child law including public and private children and injunctive proceedings.

Children
He acts for local authorities, parents, grandparents and guardians. Philip has experience in representing parents with severe learning difficulties and those assisted by the Official Solicitor. He is frequently instructed in cases involving non-accidental injuries to children, domestic violence and allegations of sexual abuse.

He has experience in representing parents in intractable contact disputes.

Cases of interest:

M v J [2018] – represented the father in private law proceedings accused of sexual abuse of his child and emotional abuse of the mother. The Judge refused to make the findings sought by the mother. Further represented the father at the appeal hearing in the High Court at which the mother’s appeal was dismissed.
M v P [2017] – represented the father in private law proceedings accused of sexually abusing his children and step child. The Judge refused to make the findings sought by the mother, made a specific finding of innocence on the father’s part and ordered the mother to pay the father's costs.
BCC v J [2016] – represented the local authority in a fact finding hearing concerning a young baby who had sustained fractures of the posterior end of the left 6th, 7th and 8th ribs. Evidence from consultant paediatrician and consultant paediatric radiologist.
L v F [2016] – represented the mother in a private law fact finding with allegations of sexual touching and exposure made against the father.
HB [2015] EWFC 74 – junior counsel for the applicant local authority in a nine-day fact finding hearing in the High Court before Baker J concerning an infant death. The case involved extensive complex expert evidence from paediatricans and pathologists.
GCC v A (2014/2015) – represented a paternal grandmother in a ten-day fact finding hearing in the High Court, where one of the children concerned suffered a near fatal drowning incident. One finding was unsuccessfully appealed A-S (Children) [2015] EWCA Civ 748. Instructed to represent the paternal grandmother at the final hearing.
BCC v G & C [2014] EWFC B206 – counsel for the local authority seeking care and placement orders at final hearing.
BCC v M [2013] – junior counsel in a 10-day fact finding hearing representing the father who, alongside one other, was accused of causing numerous serious injuries to a baby, including bilateral femoral fractures. The father was found not to have been the perpetrator of the injuries.