Career:
Called to the Bar in 2007 (Lincoln’s Inn)
Pupillage at 1 Hare Court (Justin Warshaw, Nicholas Yates and Eleanor Harris)
Lord Denning Scholarship
Hubert Greenland Award
Pegasus Scholarship to New Zealand
Finalist: Inter-provider Mooting Competition; Gluckstein Prize for advocacy
Sometime law tutor (and examiner) at Kings College London and the LSE
Principal areas of practice:
Matthew has appeared alone in all courts up to and including the Court of Appeal. He has a wide-ranging practice reflecting his academic interest in family law (albeit with a focus on financial proceedings) including experience of all the following:
- Bankruptcy (often for Trustee)
- Children law (public and private)
- Cohabitation / TOLATA
- Court of Protection
- Drafting nuptial and non-nuptial agreements
- Enforcement
- Financial remedies / ancillary relief
- Hague / wardship proceedings
- Inheritance Act
- Medico-family law
- Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989
- Trusts
Education:
University College London (LLM, Distinction)
London School of Economics (BA)
Monmouth School
Membership:
Association of Lawyers for Children
FLBA
NB: Matthew does not undertake Direct Access work but will consider pro bono instructions through the Bar Pro Bono Unit in particularly deserving cases, usually involving children. For more information see www.barprobono.org.uk.
Personal:
Interests include all sports, in particular Welsh rugby and cricket (Refreshers and Lincoln’s Inn CC), politics (formerly worked for the Shadow Home Secretary) and travelling
Publications include:
Articles in Civil Justice Quarterly, Family Law and Family Law Week
Reported cases:
Traversa v Freddi [2010] 1 FLR 324 (Part III MFPA 1984)
Involvement in other high profile cases:
Matthew has undertaken hearings or been involved (either as a pupil or subsequently as a tenant) in the following cases at some stage: MacLeod v MacLeod [2009] 1 FLR 641; Myerson v Myerson (No.1) [2009] 1 FLR 826; Bokor-Ingram v Bokor-Ingram [2009] 2 FLR 922; Hudson v Leigh [2009] 2 FLR 1129; B v R [2010] 1 FLR 563; Agbaje v Agbaje [2010] 1 FLR 1813; M v W (Ancillary relief) [2010] 2 FLR 1484; Gourisaria v Gourisaria [2011] 1 FLR 262; Freddi v Traversa [2011] EWCA Civ 81; A v L [2011] EWHC 3150 (Fam); C v C (Appeal: Hadkinson Order) [2011] 1 FLR 434; Young v Young [2012] EWHC 138 (Fam); GS v L [2011] EWHC 1759 (Fam).
