Career:
Gavin has over 20 years' experience as a specialist family law barrister. He handles all types of financial remedy proceedings in relation to relationship breakdown, with particular expertise in cases involving an international dimension.
Gavin is a leading expert on the international and domestic enforcement of maintenance orders, and has written widely on the subject, including: authoritative chapters for Rayden & Jackson; Enforcing Financial Orders in Family Proceedings (co-authored with Tim Bishop QC); and a well-received article on the enforcement aspects of the new EU Maintenance Regulation published at [2011] International Family Law 187.
He also co-edits the financial practitioners' 'bibles', At A Glance and @eGlance, and co-authored the highly-acclaimed Financial Remedies under the Family Procedure Rules, published in April 2011. He produces a monthly 'Finance Cases Round-Up' for Class Legal, which can be accessed here: http://www.classlegal.com/site.aspx?i=pg4610.
In parallel with his work as a barrister, Gavin has an expanding alternative dispute resolution practice, being qualified both as a mediator and as a collaborative law practitioner. He is also approved to carry out Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs). Gavin was trained by Resolution, the specialist family law solicitors association.
Gavin has a working knowledge of French (good) and German (fair).
His other areas of expertise are:
* Financial applications for children under the Children Act 1989
* Private law disputes concerning children.
Education:
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Membership:
Personal:
Publications:
* @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
Gourisaria v Gourisaria
[2010] EWCA Civ 1019; August 13, 2010
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
