Career:
Gavin Smith has been in practice since 1991. His principal areas of practice are:
* Ancillary relief and other financial proceedings on marital breakdown, especially those with an international dimension
* Disputes concerning jurisdiction and forum
* Financial applications for children under the Children Act 1989
* Domestic and reciprocal enforcement of financial orders
* Private law disputes concerning children.
Gavin Smith is a Resolution trained collaborative lawyer.
He is a co editor of At A Glance and @eGlance, co author of Smith & Bishop, Enforcing Financial Orders in Family Proceedings (Butterworths, 2000) and a specialist contributor to Rayden & Jackson, 18th edition, Chapters 28 and 29, on domestic and international enforcement of financial orders.
He has a working knowledge of French (good) and German (fair).
Education:
Downside School
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Membership:
Family Law Bar Association
Personal:
Married with four children
Publications
* At A Glance: Essential Court Tables for Ancillary Relief
* @eGlance
* Rayden and Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters 18th edition
* Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th edition reissue: Vol 29(3), Matrimonial Law
* Enforcing Financial Orders in Family Proceedings
Interesting Cases:
NA v MA
[2006] EWHC 2900 (Fam), [2007] 1 FLR 1760: November 24, 2006
TL v ML and others
[2005] EWHC 2860 (Fam), [2006] 1 FLR 1263: December 09, 2005
Chorley v Chorley
[2005] EWCA Civ 68, [2005] 2 FLR 38, CA: January 12, 2005
C v C (Brussels II: French conciliation and divorce proceedings)
[2004] EWHC 1959 (Fam), [2005] 2 FLR 14: June 28, 2004
Mubarak v Mubarik
[2004] EWHC 1158 (Fam), [2004] 2 FLR 932: May 14, 2004
Dharamshi v Dharamshi
[2001] 1 FLR 736, CA: December 05, 2000
Roker International Properties Inc v Couvaras
[2000] 2 FLR 976: August 17, 2000
Abdi v Jama
[1996] 1 FLR 407, CA: May 25, 1995
