Band 1
Provided by Gavin Smith
Financial remedies: arbitrator and private Financial Dispute Resolution evaluator.
Gavin Smith has three decades’ experience as a specialist family law barrister, dealing with all types of financial remedy proceedings following relationship breakdown.
Gavin now focusses full time on his established practice as an arbitrator and private FDR evaluator. He is praised in the leading professional directories for the quality of his work. In DB v DLJ [2016] EWHC 324 (Fam), Mr Justice Mostyn referred to Gavin’s arbitration award as ‘a thorough, conscientious and clear piece of work. Its quality is a testament to the merit of opting for arbitration.’
Gavin is available to undertake arbitrations of all kinds, from single-issue disputes to those involving the full range of financial remedy claims, and from high value cases to ones where the parties’ resources are modest.
He is also an experienced private FDR evaluator, assisting couples on separation by giving them an assessment of the likely outcome in their case, and thus providing them with a basis for a negotiated settlement.
Call 1981
Gavin sits as a Deputy District Judge in the Financial Remedies Court on the Midland Circuit, where he has been authorised to hear the more complex cases.
Gavin keeps up to date with legal change by co-editing the financial remedy practitioners’ ‘bibles’, At A Glance and At A Glance Cloud. He is one of the founding authors of Financial Remedies Practice, published annually since 2011, and co-founded the award-winning website familyarbitrator.com.
Provided by Chambers
Gavin Smith attracts praise for the extent of his experience in NCDR. He concentrates his practice on Private FDRs and arbitrations involving property, pensions and family loans.
Provided by Chambers
Gavin Smith is thorough, patient and technically impressive.
Gavin is very cerebral, extremely courteous and a very good communicator to the clients. He's a man who thinks carefully - he is not broad-brush but, rather, someone who is hot on the detail.
Gavin Smith is thorough, patient and technically impressive.
Gavin is very cerebral, extremely courteous and a very good communicator to the clients. He's a man who thinks carefully - he is not broad-brush but, rather, someone who is hot on the detail.