Practice Team membership and other areas of specialisation
Professional Negligence (Family Law related)
Ancillary Relief (inc Trusts of Land / cohabitants claims, Inheritance Act work etc)
Degrees and other professional qualifications
LLB Hons Bristol University 1983
Post Graduate Certificate in Sports Law, Kings College London 1998
Professional associations
Member of the FLBA
Member Bar Sports Law Group
Member Common Law Bar Association
Member British Association for Sport & Law
Member of the Legal Advisory Group to the
Law Commission Cohabitation Law Project 2005 / 06
Reported cases
N v N (Jurisdiction: Pre-Nuptual Agreement) Times 12.7.99 [1999] 2 FLR 745
Re G (Secure Accommodation) [2000] 2 FLR 259
Re VB (Minors: Child Abduction) (Rights of Custody) [1999] 2 FLR 192
Mann v Nijar [1998] Law Society Gazette
Lectures and Seminars
Regular Lecturer on ancillary relief with Central Law Training (CLT)
Other Recent Seminars on McFarlane / Miller (with 1GC), Trusts of Land (to Thames Valley Family Lawyers), Businesses and Ancillary Relief (with 1GC). Leave to Remove from the Jurisdiction (with 1GC)
Publications/Recent Articles
Contributor to Butterworths Civil Court Precedents- ("children / family breakdown" - forthcoming).
Schedule 1 Cases - Recent Developments - Family Law Week - April 2006
http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/library.asp?i=1890The Footballer's Divorce A Game of Two Halves - Sport and the Law Journal - (2005) Volume 13, Issue 3
http://www.britishsportslaw.org/journal/default.asp?item=18.)
"Burns v Burns" - 20 Years On - Family Law 2003, 834
s 37 MCA 1973 and shares - Family Law 1999, 578
Conduct and Ancillary Relief - Family Law 1997, 804
Protection from Harassment Act - Sol Jo 1998
Personal, including interests
Married with three children. Holidays in Wales.
Keen on sport, I play hockey and golf regularly.
Helped develop 'Merlyn' - the bowling machine that won the Ashes!
