Family Group Newsletter: Summer 2021 Edition
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Read moreThomas is a confident and hard-working practitioner. He is committed to providing exceptional client care while delivering sensible and focused advice. He is regularly instructed to appear for parents and Rule 16.4 Guardians at final hearings and fact-finding hearings. He is experienced in representing very vulnerable clients with a variety of complex needs. Thomas is a qualified court appointed advocate trained to cross-examine vulnerable witnesses in complex and sensitive fact-finding hearings.
Thomas is currently engaged in a long running private law dispute involving a confidential Law Enforcement Agency where several public-interest immunity orders have been made.
Thomas has experience dealing with the following private law issues:
- Interfamilial sexual assault
- Parental alienation
- Allegations of serious physical and sexual violence
- International relocation
- Child Arrangements Orders
- Applications to vary Child Arrangements Orders
- Specific Issue Orders
- Prohibited Steps Orders
- Occupation Orders
- Non-Molestation Orders
- S.91(14) applications
Before joining Chambers, Thomas worked in the Mid-West of the USA assisting a senior international attorney with complex cross-jurisdictional family law cases.
Qualifications
CPS Panel Advocate – Level 2
Court appointed Qualified Legal Representative
Youth Court Registered
BPTC – VC – 2019
LLM – Distinction – 2019
LLB (Hons) – First Class – 2018
Memberships
Criminal Bar Association
Family Law Bar Association
Midland Circuit
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
Scholarships/Awards
The Middle Temple Anglo-American Scholarship 2019
Recommendations
Legal 500 2024: Ranked Tier 1 “rising star” Crime ‘Thomas’ advocacy is excellent. He is dynamic and reactive to what can unfold in the courtroom. His knowledge is top-rate.’
Legal 500 2024: Ranked Tier 1 “rising star” Family – Children ‘Thomas’ advocacy is excellent. He is dynamic and reactive to what can unfold in the courtroom. His knowledge is top-rate.’
Reported Cases
Re V and T (Placement application; disabled child) [2022] EWFC 125
Thomas represented parents with learning difficulties whose child has significant physical and developmental needs. The local authority’s application for a final care order and placement order was successfully resisted.
R v Donaldo Dyrma [2022] EWCA Crim 1481
Thomas successfully appealed sentence in the Court of Appeal. The Court quashed the sentence of 14 months’ custody and substituted it for 8 months’ custody.
AA & Others [2022] EWFC 200
Thomas was led by Kirstie Danton in protracted and complex care proceedings involving applications to the High Court for medical declarations.
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