1 Hare Court

Tom has represented clients at all levels up to and including the Supreme Court.

He has a particular expertise in disputes involving the proper treatment of non-matrimonial assets, having successfully represented the respondent husband in Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26. Standish is the landmark case on the proper application of the sharing principle. The Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision by which they dismissed the wife’s appeal, allowed the husband’s appeal, which reduced the wife’s sharing claim from £45m to £25m.

Tom’s practice is focused on complex financial remedy work. He is regularly instructed as junior counsel to the leading silks in substantial and complex financial remedy proceedings. 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 also increasingly instructed to sit as an early neutral evaluator (pFDR judge).

Notable Cases

• Standish v Standish [2025] UKSC 26 – Landmark Supreme Court authority on the sharing principle and the proper treatment of non-matrimonial property.

• 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.

• Haskell v Haskell [2019] EWHC 3434 (Fam); [2020] 4 WLR 24; [2020] 1 FCR 565 – Interim maintenance order suspended rather than dismissed.

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)

Prior to coming to the Bar, Tom spent three years as a full-time athlete training out of the GB Rowing High Performance Centre at Leander Club, Henley-on-Thames.