Thomas Dance

Practice Areas

All areas of financial remedies, including claims after an overseas divorce, jurisdiction disputes, declarations of marital status and financial provision for children. Reported cases include Waggott v Waggot [2018] EWCA Civ 727, Crowther v Crowther [2017] EWCA Civ 2698 and A v A [2018] EWFC 62.

Claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.

Available to act as a Private FDR ‘judge’.

All other areas of private family law, including children disputes, international child abduction and Family Law Act injunctive relief. Reported cases include re W [2017] EWCA Civ 2152 and Borg v El Zubaidy [2018] EWHC 432 (Fam).

Career

BA (Hons) in Law, Christ Church, University of Oxford

LLM (Jurisprudence), UCL

Middle Temple Lord Justice Sachs Exhibition

Called to the Bar in 2012

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association; Resolution (Associate Member)

Publications

Jackson’s Matrimonial Finance: Ch.2-9, sub-editor

1KBW on Trusts in Matrimonial Finance Proceedings: co-author

1KBW on International Child Abduction: co-author

Atkin’s Court Forms, Ch.K, Registration and Enforcement of Maintenance Orders

Personal

Tom is obsessed with ceramics and is a fanatical tennis player. Of a Sunday afternoon, he will either be on court imagining he is treading the soft turf of Wimbledon, or hunched over a pottery wheel. Other interests include guitar, piano and groundlessly asserting that he could have been a Michelin starred chef