Practice Areas
- Court of Protection - Vulnerable Adult
- International Children Law
- Private Children Law
- Public Children Law
Dispute Resolution
Awards
“Robin Barda comes highly recommended for his representation of parents, children and guardians in cases relating to child abduction, relocation and public law..”
Chambers & Partners 2014
Experience
Year of Call: 1975
Education
BA (Oxon)
Qualified Collaborative Lawyer
Languages
Conversational French
Profile
Robin specialises in all aspects of childs work including residence and contact disputes, adoptions, child abductions, and public law applications. He carries out a considerable amount of work for local authorities, guardians and parents, mostly in the High Court at the Principal and other District Registries, but also in County Courts and in the Court of Appeal. Robin’s cases have involved clients across a broad spectrum of wealth, including well-known personalities, and cases which have received media attention.
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
South Eastern Circuit
Kent Bar Mess
Gray’s Inn
Directories
Comes highly recommended for his representation of parents, children and guardians in cases relating to child abduction, relocation and public law.
Expertise: One solicitor commented: “He knows more about family law than some of the judges.”
Chambers & Partners 2014
Senior junior Robin Barda, whose private and public children law caseload includes abduction, adoption and relocation work. The well-respected Barda is “very talented,” and one interviewee opined: “I don’t know why he’s not in silk.”
Recommended as a Leading Family Junior in Chambers & Partners 2013
One of the set’s more senior juniors is Robin Barda, who comes highly recommended for his handling of public law children matters. “Unshowy but terribly effective, he always hits the right tone in the most sensitive of cases.”
Recommended as a Leading Junior in Chambers and Partners 2012
Busy, Robin Barda regularly appears in the High Court representing parents, children and guardians in public children matters.
Recommended as a Leading Family Junior in Chambers and Partners 2011
The extremely senior Robin Barda. Barda is respected by judges and is an expert on cases that involve complex medical evidence.
Recommended as a Leading Family Junior in Chambers and Partners 2010
Robin Barda is probably best known for child abduction work but does, however, carry out the full range of family law work, handling everything from ancillary relief and cohabitee disputes to adoption and contract disputes. Solicitors value his “quiet and understated yet highly effective style.”
Recommended as a Leading Family Junior in the area of children in Chambers and Partners 2009
Robin Barda deals mainly with child abduction, but his broad practice covers the whole sweep of family law. He is especially well regarded in the public law sphere, where “the care he vests in such cases” is commended.
Recommended as a leading junior in Family/Children in Chambers & Partners 2008
‘Robin Barda is “Excellent” in children cases.’
Recommended as a leading junior in Family/Children in Chambers & Partners 2007