Gwyn Evans

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Barrister Tanfield Chambers

At Tanfield Chambers, Gwyn has a family and private client practice, encompassing financial remedies, trusts of land, inheritance disputes, court of protection work, presumption of death and challenging - often international - private law children cases. Gwyn combines excellent client care skills with thorough technical legal knowledge.

Gwyn graduated with first class honours (Social and Political Science) from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1996. He also obtained a distinction in acting from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before completing his GDL at City. He regularly lectures for CLT on TOLATA, and writes for Family Law Week, LexisNexisPSL and Family Law on financial remedies and TOLATA.

A member of Gray's Inn, Gwyn is regularly acting and singing in Gray's Inn Miscellany.

Gwyn is the winner of the 2016 Family Law Commentator of the Year award.

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Thirty-something lovers Fallon Rogers (barmaid) and Harrison Burns (police constable) didn’t have much money between them. What little they had was Harrison’s – enough for a deposit on a modest house,...

How easy is it to ensure that the decisions set out in your will as to the destination of your worldly goods are respected and implemented? How straightforward is it to ensure that an unfavoured...

If a matrimonial home is owned by a limited company, shares in which are held - and financing for which was provided - by a spouse together with his wider family, can the ownership of such a...

The below article appears in the January issue of Family Law at [2017] Fam Law 114 and has been made available, free of charge, as a service to our readers.In his introductory remarks to the Family...

Can you give away an interest in land in the course of a discussion? In Ely v Robson [2016] EWCA Civ 774, Ms Robson argued that you could not: an oral agreement would not be compliant with s 2 (1) Law...

What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?I am a barrister at Tanfield Chambers. Each day is very different, but I represent people - usually parents or separating couples - in...

In NG v SG (Appeal: Non-Disclosure) [2011] EWHC 3270 (Fam), [2012] 1 FLR 1211 Mostyn J described non-disclosure as ‘the bane which strikes at the very integrity of the adjudicative process’ (para...

'The law relating to financial orders is inherently unclear. It is not possible to discern from the statute what the law requires, although the courts and family lawyers administer the law with...

Montalto v Popat and Others [2016] EWHC 801 (Ch)This case is a cautionary tale of the ‘cost and heartache’ (para [139]) that can follow the break-up of a couple who are neither married nor in a civil...

In ancillary relief litigation, whose responsibility is it to quantify the value of future pension benefits and their non-pension substitutes if offsetting is being considered? What method should be...

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