UK Bar
Practice Areas
Rhys specialises in financial remedies. He is a leading expert and an experienced advocate in this field and related areas of law.
Rhys has extensive experience in dealing with complex and high value financial remedy claims. He has expertise in dealing with cases involving non-disclosure, complex or novel assets, commercial assets, partnerships, valuation issues, liquidity issues, competing property or commercial claims by third parties, pensions and enforcement. He has extensive experience of constructive trust and estoppel type claim claims, particularly in the farming context.
Many of Rhys’ cases involve complex questions relating to the involvement of third parties and how their property or commercial rights relate to the parties’ financial remedy claim. Many of his cases have an international dimension with assets or parties located in different jurisdictions.
Rhys has a much sought after expertise concerning pensions on divorce, having been a founder member of the Pension Advisory Group. He also a co-author of the leading textbook in the area, Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook (Class Legal, 4th edition, Hess, Taylor, Rainer and Galbraith).
Rhys’s philosophy is to seek a consensual solution to problems in the first instance, and he will go the extra mile in seeking out a resolution which works for his clients. Many of Rhys’ cases settle at a private FDR. There are some cases, however, which require a contested determination and where settlement options have been exhausted Rhys is very experienced in dealing with the dynamics of a fully contested hearing, whether conducted before an arbitrator or judge in court.
Rhys is a seasoned family arbitrator having delivered numerous awards involving long and complex hearings. Rhys is a mediator and also a much sought after Private FDR evaluator.
Professional Memberships
Memberships
• Family Procedure Rule Committee
• Online Procedure Rule Committee, sub-committee
• Governing Bencher, Inner Temple
• Family Law Bar Association
• Pension Advisory Group
• Member Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Resolution
• Chancery Bar Association
• Bar Council ADR panel
Publications
As a member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, he was instrumental in the 2024 amendments introduced to the Family Procedure Rules, Part 3 and Part 28 in respect of Non-Court Dispute Resolution and the revised Financial Remedies Pre-Action Protocol.
Away from his advocacy and private tribunal work, Rhys’ knowledge and expertise in the law is reflected by his involvement as a contributing editor to the Family Court Practice (“The Red Book”). He is also the editor and Vice-Chair of the Financial Remedies Journal, which is an essential resource for his sector of the profession. He writes and lectures widely, including to the Judicial College.
Industry Sector Expertise
Finance
Rhys has extensive experience in dealing with complex financial remedy claims.
Rhys’ is a leading expert concerning pensions on divorce and receives numerous instructions dealing with the complexities
ADR/NCDR
Non-Court Dispute Resolution forms a significant part of Rhys’s practice, whether in his role as a private tribunal (evaluator or arbitrator), mediator or indeed as an advocate in that context.
Rhys is listed in the directories as a leading dispute resolution practitioner and a first-class ADR tribunal.
International
Many of Rhys’s cases feature international elements concerning jurisdiction, forum and enforcement.
Work Highlights
Reported cases
Dobson v Griffey [2018] EWHC 1117 (Ch)
Goodyear v Goodyear (deceased) [2022] EWFC 96
