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
