Profile description
Admitted as a solicitor in 1993 prior to being called to the Bar in 2006, John has conducted ancillary relief cases ranging from those making modest assets to high net worth cases involving farms, pensions, businesses and cases with a foreign element. John is based in North Yorkshire, enjoys a national practice and is happy to travel.
John’s areas of expertise include:
- Applications for financial remedies
- Complex Company accounts
- Director/partnership liabilities
- Pension sharing
- Multiple properties
- Offshore bank accounts
- International cases
- Maintenance
- Pre nuptial agreements
- Separation agreements
- Farm assets
John is also prepared to consider accepting private law children and domestic violence/injunction cases. He is accredited to accept work on a public access basis.
Recent matters include representing:
- Husband in an application for a financial remedy following foreign divorce proceedings.
- Wife in a financial remedy application involving substantial farm assets.
- Wife in a financial remedy case involving a husband with a dramatically shortened life expectancy.
- Intervenor in a case involving a family farming business.
- Husband in a financial remedy case involving a husband and wife and family owned transport business.
- Wife in a financial remedy case involving property abroad.
- Husband in a financial remedy case involving substantial pension assets.
Recommendations:
"Your manner was at all times professional, your advice balanced, accurate and factual with a knowledge clearly built on years of practical experience within the law and court system. You were quick to establish that mine was a 'needs based' case, that this was our strength and where we needed to focus - you were very right. I have been through the legal system twice, first for contact and then for financial resolution and I can say without doubt that you are the best Barrister I have seen work. In court you were excellent, striking exactly the right balance of assertiveness and respect and making strong law and process based arguments where appropriate. Furthermore you were absolutely fearless in your approach to cross examination of my former husband and in protecting me from his Barrister" Recent Client
Personal:
John is a keen horseman and keeps a Clydesdale and and IDxTB hunter together with a small flock of rare breed sheep on his land in the Yorkshire Dales.
