Band 2
Band 4
About
Provided by Thomas Dance
Practice Areas
All areas of financial remedies, including claims after an overseas divorce, jurisdiction disputes, declarations of marital status and financial provision for children. Reported cases include Waggott v Waggot [2018] EWCA Civ 727, Crowther v Crowther [2017] EWCA Civ 2698 and A v A [2018] EWFC 62.
Claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
Available to act as a Private FDR ‘judge’.
All other areas of private family law, including children disputes, international child abduction and Family Law Act injunctive relief. Reported cases include re W [2017] EWCA Civ 2152 and Borg v El Zubaidy [2018] EWHC 432 (Fam).
Career
BA (Hons) in Law, Christ Church, University of Oxford
LLM (Jurisprudence), UCL
Middle Temple Lord Justice Sachs Exhibition
Called to the Bar in 2012
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association; Resolution (Associate Member)
Publications
Jackson’s Matrimonial Finance: Ch.2-9, sub-editor
1KBW on Trusts in Matrimonial Finance Proceedings: co-author
1KBW on International Child Abduction: co-author
Atkin’s Court Forms, Ch.K, Registration and Enforcement of Maintenance Orders
Personal
Tom is obsessed with ceramics and is a fanatical tennis player. Of a Sunday afternoon, he will either be on court imagining he is treading the soft turf of Wimbledon, or hunched over a pottery wheel. Other interests include guitar, piano and groundlessly asserting that he could have been a Michelin starred chef