Practice Areas

Direct Access

Direct Access

Awards

Hardwicke Entrance Award Scholarship
Eastham Scholarship

‘Mani is very committed and passionate about assisting clients. He is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that the client receives the best possible advice and service. He is reliable and extremely knowledgeable in respect of private children’s cases. He has excellent advocacy skills, particularly in cross-examination.’
Legal 500, 2024

Experience

Year of Call: 2014

Qualifications

Law LLB:  First Class Honours
Joint LLM (Employment Law and Sports Law): First Class Distinction
BPTC:  Very Competent

Languages

Conversational Punjabi and Hindi

Appointments

Elected Member on the Family Law Bar Association Committee [2019 – 2022] and committee member on the Child Abduction Lawyers Association [2022 – present].

Profile

In 2023, Mani was recognised at the Family Law Awards by winning the Junior Barrister of the Year award. Mani has a broad practice covering all areas of family law with a particular focus on disputes relating to children. He regularly appears in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

International Child Law

Mani is a specialist in cases that have an international element relating to child abduction. Mani deals with cases concerning applications for summary return under the Hague Convention 1980, the recognition and enforcement of foreign orders relating to the Hague Convention 1996, applications concerning wardship / the inherent jurisdiction and forced marriage. Mani is known for his experience in ‘stranded spouse’ cases and is the author of ‘A Practical Guide to Stranded Spouses in Family Law’ which is available for purchase here. He also co-authored an article in The Times about this topic. Further, Mani has published a book in respect of ‘A Practical Guide to Exercising the Inherent Jurisdiction’ which can be purchased here.

Further, Mani is regularly instructed in cases where there are jurisdictional issues, applications for relocation and cases concerning surrogacy.

Mani regularly writes on the topic of international child abduction and has featured in the International Family Law Journal, the Family Law Journal and New Law Journal.

Mani has appeared in a number of published cases such as:

Private Law Children and Domestic Abuse

Mani acts in all areas of private law disputes concerning children that involve applications for child arrangement orders and enforcement proceedings. He is frequently instructed in cases considering contentious residence and contact disputes where the issues involve allegations of domestic abuse, psychological harm, parental alienation and he appears in cases involving domestic and international relocation. Mani is particularly known for his experience in private law cases where there are reported safeguarding issues and local authority input and he has produced a number of articles on this area which have been published by the Family Law Journal (LexisNexis).

Mani has extensive experience relating to applications under the Family Law Act 1996 for non-molestation and occupation orders.


Personal Information

Mani has assisted with the expert witness training of paediatricians at the Royal College of Paediatrics and regularly delivers training and seminars to legal professionals. Mani was awarded the LexisNexis Family Law Commentator of the Year Award 2022 and in 2022 he was also nominated and shortlisted for the Rising Star award at the Asian Lawyer Awards 2022. In 2023, he was awarded Family Junior Barrister of the Year award and shortlisted for the Legal Commentator of the Year and International Lawyer of the Year and shortlisted for Civil (Family) Lawyer of the Year at the 2023 Asian Lawyer Awards. He has also been nominated for Barrister of the Year Award at the British Family Law Awards.

He is on the scholarship and diversity panel for the FLBA and is also a pupil supervisor at 4PB.

Mani is often invited to speak at a number of high profile events and recently he spoke at:

Professional Memberships

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
Family Law Bar Association
Child Abduction Lawyers Association

Directories

‘Mani is very committed and passionate about assisting clients. He is always willing to go the extra mile to ensure that the client receives the best possible advice and service. He is reliable and extremely knowledgeable in respect of private children’s cases. He has excellent advocacy skills, particularly in cross-examination.’
Legal 500, 2024

21/12/23
[2023] EWHC 3299 (Fam)
15/12/23
[2022] EWHC 3692 (Fam)
13/12/23
[2023] EWHC 3177 (Fam)
26/09/23
[2023] EWHC 2209 (Fam)
27/07/23
[2023] EWHC 1883
05/07/23
[2023] EWHC 1673 (Fam)
10/03/23
[2023] EWHC 584 (Fam)
23/02/23
[2023] EWHC 891 (Fam)
13/09/22
[2022] EWFC 104