Tom’s practice is focused on complex financial remedy work. He is regularly instructed as junior counsel to the leading silks in cases concerning ultra-high net worth individuals and/or and complex issues. He is also frequently instructed as sole counsel in cases before High Court judges.

His cases frequently involve:

Disputes as to the proper treatment of non-matrimonial / matrimonialised assets Contested jurisdiction High net worth individuals Offshore and corporate/trust structures Disputed valuation evidence Allegations of non-disclosure Issues of privilege

Tom is increasingly instructed to sit as an early neutral evaluator.

Notable cases:

Standish v Standish [2024] EWCA Civ 567 – Landmark case on the proper treatment of assets generated outside of the marital partnership. Successfully reduced the appellant wife’s sharing award by £20m. H v GH [2023] EWFC 235 – Successful strike out application of an application to extend time for payment of a lump sum. SBX v ABX [2022] EWHC 3652 (Fam) – Post-Brexit jurisdiction battle between England and Germany. ARQ v YAQ [2022] EWFC 128; [2022] 4 WLR 112 – A leading case on ‘matrimonialisation’ of non-matrimonial assets. Decision of Court of Appeal awaited. Baker v Baker [2023] EWFC 136 – Implementing a New York Separation Agreement before the English Court. Baker v Baker [2022] EWFC 15; [2022] 2 FCR 555 – Impact of unsatisfactory disclosure on an application for interim maintenance. G v T [2023] EWFC 235– Post-separation endeavour, disputed valuation evidence. Haskell v Haskell [2019] EWHC 3434 (Fam); [2020] 4 WLR 24; [2020] 1 FCR 565 – Interim maintenance order suspended rather than dismissed. FW v FH [2019] EWHC 1338 (Fam); [2019] 2 FCR 937 – Extraction of value from a family business. Hammoud v Al Zawiwi [2019] EWHC 697 (Fam); [2019] 3 FCR 356 – Prison sentence imposed on the husband who had breached an order to provide financial disclosure in proceedings under Part III of the MFPA 1984. Hammoud v Al Zawiwi [2019] EWHC 736 (Fam); [2019] 3 FCR 356 – Absence of affidavit evidence in committal applications. Chai v Peng (Jurisdiction: Forum Conveniens) (No2) [2014] EWHC 3518 (Fam); [2015] 2 FLR 424; [2015] Fam. Law 37 – Jurisdiction race between Malaysia and England, with assets of over £200m. Chai v Peng (Estoppel: Foreign Judgment) (No1) [2014] EWHC 3519 (Fam); [2015] 2 FLR 412; [2015] Fam. Law 37 – Rebutted the husband’s case that the wife should be prevented from pursuing her jurisdiction claim before the English court.

Publications:

Co-author of chapter on pre/post nuptial agreements in the current edition of Rayden and Jackson on Relationship Breakdown, Finances and Children

Called 2013

National Executive Committee of the Family Law Bar Association Affiliate Member of Resolution Inner Temple

Redruth School Keble College, University of Oxford (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) Oxford Brookes University (GDL) Kaplan Law School (BPTC)