Tom Tyler

Call 1996
Email tom.tyler@3pb.co.uk
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Family

Areas of practice:

• divorce,
• ancillary relief
• claims under the Trusts of Land and Trustees Act 1996
• asset forfeiture.

In ancillary relief his practice often involves matters of greater substance and complexity; however he is happy to continue to be instructed in the more straightforward cases.

With more difficult matters he strongly encourages instructing solicitors to involve counsel at the very earliest stages and can point to many cases where with his assistance, agreement has been reached without the need to issue proceedings. Tom is happy to provide advice both in writing and in conference.

Cases with a pensions dispute are something of a speciality and he has presented seminars on this subject for solicitors in partnership with specialist actuaries.

Tom is a member of the 3PB asset forfeiture team with a particular interest in cases where there are issues relating to divorce and property ownership.

He came to the bar after a successful career in business. A personable and persuasive advocate he has conducted cases in all aspects of family law including representing local authorities in cases of non accidental injury to children and all aspects of private law.

Tom is 'Direct Access' trained.

Recent cases have involved:

• Ancillary relief claims involving division of residential and investment properties including questions relating to the arising tax issues.
• Representing a husband in his ancillary relief claim which was complicated by allegations of relevant conduct relating to his imprisonment for serious sexual offences.
• Representing a party in an ancillary relief claim involving bankruptcy, allegations of forgery and non disclosure, and further allegations that very substantial pension assets had been placed in the hands of third parties.
• Acting for a party in an ancillary relief claim involving multiple freezing orders and joining of third parties where the one party had abstracted funds from pension assets.
• Cases under Part III of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 where ancillary relief is sought after a foreign divorce. One such case involving issues of jurisdiction over a talaq divorce and very substantial assets.
• Several successful ancillary relief appeals.