Baldip Singh Aulak

Specialist immigration; family; criminal.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE Adoption Asylum Care & Supervision Child Abduction Child Arrangement Corporate Immigration Divorce Entry Clearance & LTR Extradition Family Family Finance & Property Financial Provision Forced Marriage Immigration & Nationality International Criminal Law International Human Rights Law International Law International Law in Domestic Courts Molestation & Occupation Nationality & Citizenship Relocation Internal and Abroad Removal & Deportation Visas Introduction

Baldip Singh is an experienced human rights practitioner with a wide ranging practice based around family law, immigration law and international law. He has significant experience in both private and public law matters.

Baldip is regularly instructed in significant cases involving family law that overlap with immigration issues.

Acting for Local Authorities, parents and children, Baldip has had extensive exposure to care proceedings involving children who have died whilst in the parents’ care, suffered from non-accidental head injuries, long term neglect, sexual abuse and factitious illness.

In respect of international children law, Baldip is a specialist on international relocation, child abduction and forced marriages.

Baldip has a well established practice in immigration law, he represents clients at all levels up to the Court of Appeal. He also has a strong Judicial Review practice.

Baldip enjoys the fast pace that immigration and public law work has to offer and has successfully represented clients with respect to emergency injunctive relief to stop removal via High Court applications. He has developed a specialty niche in making urgent applications out of hours when essential to prevent injustice.

Baldip has an increasingly international practice and has been instructed to assist in significant cases involving Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Libya and a number of countries in Asia including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Baldip worked in a leading immigration law firm that was involved in significant high profile cases. Baldip is heavily involved within his community raising awareness of domestic violence and other legal issues affecting ethnic minorities. Baldip has worked, volunteered and acted as a trainer for various organisations and provides training and seminars to solicitors, law centres and community groups. He has been an invited lecturer and given talks at prestigious universities in India and visited several Bar Associations in that country on such topics as 'The Importance of an Independent Judiciary' and 'Collecting Best Evidence'.

Baldip is fluent Punjabi and conversational Hindi and Urdu.

Baldip is licensed to accept Direct Public Access work. Baldip will consider pro bono work on a case by case basis.

Expertise: European Union law; judicial review and administrative law; human rights law; private child law proceedings; financial remedies. Baldip joined Thomas Bingham Chambers following completion of a specialist administrative law pupillage at a leading human rights set in London. Baldip is a practiitioner specialising in international human rights law, European Union free movement law and immigration and asylum law. Baldip has worked at leading immigration law firms throughout the course of his legal studies; during pupillage he was instructed at all levels of court up to the administrative High Court in his own right. Within the first two months of tenancy Baldip was instructed in the Court of Appeal with a successful outcome. He is a very passionate and fearless advocate known for fighting the corner of the underdog inside and outside of court. Baldip is also instructed to draft grounds of appeal and challenging decisions of the Secretary of State by way of Judicial Review. Baldip enjoys the fast pace that immigration and public law work has to offer and has successfully represented clients with respect to emergency injunctive relief to stop removal via High Court applications during and out of office hours. Baldip is regularly instructed in private children law and domestic violence cases, particularly when there is an overlap with immigration issues. Baldip is also instructed in criminal law matters appearing at the Crown Courts. Baldip has a broad practice encompassing areas of law that overlap with immigration and human rights issues. Baldip has a passion in teaching law. He has been regularly invited to give talks and seminars on immigration and EU law and the law and issues affecting minorities and those most vulnerable in society across the UK. Baldip speaks fluent Punjabi and conversational in Hindi and Urdu dialects. Baldip runs various legal clinics within the community in Birmingham and East and West London.

BPTC University of Law (2012-2013); LLB (Hons) Birmingham (2012).

Awards & Prizes

Frank Burns Gahan Scholarship 2012 (Inner Temple) Inner Temple Major Scholarship and Exhibition Award 2012 Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award (Inner Temple) 2013 Sikh Awards 2014, Sikh Help Line Charity of the Year