Tim Amos KC

Practice Areas

Highly experienced and respected money practitioner with a specialism in international jurisdiction cases and in high-value Anglo-German disputes owing to his expertise in the field and professional-standard fluency in the German language, including German legal language. He has additional expertise in Austria/Switzerland/Liechtenstein and also works/lectures in French as well as German. He is particularly noted for his skill in tackling complex jurisdiction issues. Amos is also respected for his standing as both collaborative counsel and a resolution mediator.

Strengths: "Tim Amos KC remains one of the real gentlemen of family law and is unparalleled when it comes to unpicking the fine details of a case." "Very clever and succinct, he makes complicated arguments look simple."

Recent work: Acted in the leading Schedule 1 jurisdiction case of Re C (a child) [2021] EWFC 32; and in NN v AS & Others, a case where a husband’s Egyptian wife was falsely claiming that the husband was worth £100 million (based on marital lifestyle), whereas the court ultimately found that the husband himself was worth only £340,000 and that the c.£10 million of English properties registered in the husband’s name, and claimed by the wife, were in fact still owned by his father and/or sisters.