Joseph Rainer
UK Bar Guide 2025
Band 2 : Family: Matrimonial Finance
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Practice Areas
Joe’s practice covers all areas of private family law, with a focus on financial remedies (including cases brought under TLATA 1996). He is described as ‘supremely intelligent’, ‘highly technical’, ‘exceptionally hard working’, ‘persuasive and powerful’ and ‘calm and confident under pressure’. He has appeared solo in several multi-day High Court trials, where he has been commended by the Court for his “conspicuous skill”. He has recently appeared in the Supreme Court, led by Tim Amos KC.
Joe is frequently led by silks and senior juniors both in and out of Chambers. He has also successfully appeared alone against leading silks in contested financial remedy cases. He has a particular interest in cases involving complex asset structures, pensions, international dimensions and enforcement issues.
Joe is unabashedly passionate about his work. He is on the editorial board of At A Glance and The Financial Remedies Journal, and is also a member of the Pensions Advisory Group (‘PAG’). He is a contributor to the third edition of International Trust and Divorce Litigation, LexisNexis, 2019. He writes periodically for a number of leading journals and websites. His writing has, on occasion, been referenced and approved by the judiciary: see for example KM v CV [2020] EWFC B22. He lectures frequently on a range of topics
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Bar Pro Bono Unit
Middle Temple
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Joseph Rainer is a rapidly rising junior who is instructed in the full range of private family law matters, more particularly financial remedy proceedings. He has expertise in cases concerning TOLATA, as well as those relating to pensions, enforcement and asset structures, and has handled a number of matters that are international in nature.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is extraordinary in terms of his work ethic and has a remarkable technical ability."
"He is very in tune with the big cases."
"He is extraordinary in terms of his work ethic and has a remarkable technical ability."
"He is very in tune with the big cases."
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