Mousumi Chowdhury

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Mousumi Chowdhury

Call 2014

Mousumi works across the practice areas of: professional discipline, immigration and asylum, family law (including private children proceedings and financial provision matters). She is dual qualified and has completed her Public Access training and takes on cases from lay clients in suitable matters. Described as ‘impressive in her advocacy and communication skills’, Mousumi is highly sought after as choice of counsel in her practice areas.

Expertise

Mousumi completed a secondment in a Tier 1 500 ranked large law firm acting on behalf of regulatory bodies from the years 2021-2022. During this time, Mousumi was involved in a number of investigations and acted as an advocate on behalf of a regulatory body.

She has continued with this work and has a busy advocacy practice appearing before regulatory panels and in the High Court. She is regularly instructed in interim order extension hearings in the High Court and in substantive hearings before regulatory panels such as the HCPC, GPhC, GDC and NMC.

She is currently employed by the NMC in their RIT team where she represents the regulatory body in appeals and fitness to practice matters.

Mousumi works across the fields of asylum, immigration and public law, with specialisms in family life applications, cases that intersect with family law matters and deportation cases. She is regularly instructed in the First-Tier and Upper Tribunals and High Court. She has been described to be ‘an extremely diligent advocate whose attention to detail is exemplary.’ Mousumi’s advocacy and drafting skills are at a high level and her dedication for her work really shines through in her hard work for each of her cases.

Notable Immmigration cases

SH -v- SSHD

Error of law hearing at the Upper Tribunal in a case looking at the provisions of Appendix EU.

TE -v- SSHD

Human rights appeal hearing at the First-tier Tribunal where a parent applied for entry clearance for their child to join them in the UK; the appeal was successful.

MK -v- SSHD

Bail application in the First-tier Tribunal for an applicant who had been sentenced for more than 17 years.

AS -v- SSHD

Judicial review oral permission hearing where the Claimant challenged a 10-year ban on entry to the UK.

AAC -v- SSHD

Judicial review oral permission hearing in a case concerning the grant of British citizenship; permission for judicial review was granted.

GK -v- SSHD

Mousumi represented the Appellant at the First-tier Tribunal in an EEA direct family member case where relationship was disputed. The appeal was conceded by the Home Office immediately at the beginning of the hearing.

OWJ and others -v- SSHD

Mousumi represented the Appellants in a case where the Home Office alleged there had been fraudulent deception 12 years prior in the obtaining of indefinite leave to remain by the Appellants and sought to revoke the indefinite leave to remain. The appeal was allowed.

Mousumi practices in private children and family finances.  Solicitors and clients have found Mousumi to be well-prepared, articulate in court and able to identify the key legal issues on complex matters quickly. She is regularly instructed in fact-findings and final hearings and is described by a leading firm of solicitors who instruct her as having a ‘personable and endearing personality and easily gains the trust of clients with whom she works. We have certain clients who prefer to work with her exclusively.’

Mousumi’s previous experience of working with the National Centre of Domestic Violence has meant that she is particularly well-equipped to assist with vulnerable clients. Mousumi’s knowledge of family law led to her being invited by Westminster University to teach family law and child protection policies for the years 2020 – 2026.

Notable Family cases

HP -v- DP

Three day fact finding hearing in a private children matter where Mousumi represented the Respondent Mother in a case where the Applicant Father was seeking to re-establish contact with a step-child following the parties’ divorce.

CA -v- MMS

Mousumi represented the Respondent Mother, a serving policewoman in private children proceedings.

MPS -v- D -v- D

Mousumi represented the Metropolitan Police Service at a directions hearing in a case involving allegations of abuse made by a child against the Applicant Father.

CB -v- B

Mousumi represented the Applicant Father, based in Brazil, seeking to establish indirect contact with his child, who had to be located in the UK.

NP -v- JP

Mousumi represented the Applicant Husband in a final hearing in a financial proceedings matter and successfully argued the Applicant’s Husband’s debts were marital debts given the parties’ outgoings throughout the duration of their marriage.

NA -v- SA

Mousumi represented the Applicant Mother in private children proceedings in a case with jurisdictional issues as the Respondent Father was residing in Turkey.

SF -v- JF

Mousumi represented the Applicant Husband in a financial proceedings matter and successfully argued he was entitled to 50% of the ‘Right to Buy’ grant despite not having his name on the tenancy agreement at the time of the grant.

JJ -v- KM

Final hearing in private children proceedings where Mousumi represented the Applicant Father and successfully obtained both direct and overnight contact for him with his children in a case involving multiple allegations of domestic violence, neglect and issues of deportation.

Associations and Memberships

  • 2014 – 2016: LLM Legal Professional Skills, City University
    Commendation
  • 2013 – 2014: Bar Professional Training Course, City University
    Very Competent
  • 2010 – 2013: LLB Law, Queen Mary University
    First Class Honours

  • The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
  • Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales
  • Human Rights Lawyers Association

  • Visiting Lecturer at Westminster University from January 2020 – August 2025 for Child Protection Law and Policy and Family Law
  • Awarded the Hubert Greenland Pupillage scholarship
  • Recipient of the Tower Hamlets and Canary Wharf Further Education Trust award for the years 2013-2015 for LLM and BPTC studies
  • Accredited international civil and commercial mediator from the London School of Mediation

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