[WEBINAR] Family Conference 2020

Tim Amos, QC – Barrister, Mediator and Head of Chambers, QEB Queen Elizabeth Building, London

Tim Amos is a barrister and mediator and Head of Chambers at QEB Barristers Chambers in London: Queen Elizabeth Building.  He is also a Fellow and Governor of the IAFL.  Tim qualified as Barrister in 1987 and was appointed QC (Queen’s Counsel) in 2008.  Prior to taking silk he was also “Standing Counsel to the Queen’s Proctor”, a government appointment to advise the Treasury Solicitor, in parallel to private practice, on family law matters of public importance, including the recognition of foreign marriages and divorces.

He specializes in international family law, jurisdiction and finance cases.  Tim is fluent in German (including legal German) and French language.  Notable reported cases include that he appeared for the companies in the UK Supreme Court case of Prest v Petrodel [2013] UKSC 34 (corporate veil in family finance), for the successful wife in the European Court of Justice (CJEU) case of A v B, C-184/14 (priority of jurisdiction under the EU Brussels IIA Regulation), in the UK Privy Council case of Bromfield [2015] UKPC 19 on appeal from Jamaica (constructive trust and maintenance), and in the English Court of Appeal in Magiera [2016] EWCA 1292 (real estate interests under the EU Brussels I Regulation).   In the context of domestic English matrimonial finance, Tim also appeared in Goddard-Watts [2017] 2FLR 114 (in relation to the Court’s approach on re-hearings after non-disclosure) in ND v SD [2017] EWHC 1507 (sham trusts and beneficial ownership), and in NN v AS [2018] EWHC 2973 (matrimonial finance after a foreign divorce, trusts, forgery and the extended family).  Tim was named Legal 500 Family & Children Silk of the Year 2019, for the second time.  He also sits part-time in a judicial capacity as a “Family Recorder” and as a “private judge” to provide “early neutral evaluation”.  For more details, you may visit www.qeb.co.uk.