Thomas Dance

Spear’s Review

Tom Dance of 1 King’s Bench Walk has been described as ‘one to watch’ by a top family law firm whose solicitors instruct him. According to the firm, he is ‘known as being pragmatic and strategic with advice, and an excellent advocate’.

Dance specialises in matrimonial finance cases, especially matters involving international assets and jurisdictional disputes, as well as private children law and private financial dispute resolution. His financial relief practice encompasses various issues, including Schedule 1 applications, cohabitation claims and claims under the Inheritance Act. His children law practice includes internal and external relocation cases, child arrangements disputes and international child abduction.

He was the recipient of the Middle Temple Lord Justice Sachs Entrance Exhibition award and the John V Lovitt prize for jurisprudence. Away from law, Dance says, he is ‘obsessed with ceramics’.

Notable cases

• Borg v El Zubaidy [2018] EWHC 432 (Fam)
  
• Waggott v Waggott [2018] EWCA Civ 727