Call:1990
Qualifications: MA (Cantab)
Practice Teams
Civil & Commercial
Family
Property
Rhys JonesPrint CV
Profile
After qualifying and practising as a solicitor in Birmingham Rhys transferred to the bar in 1990. His practice encompasses civil & commercial (particularly specialising in wills & probate and insolvency), property and family work.
His current and recent caseload include:
- Wills and Probate: a Claim before a Chancery Master by the partner of the deceased for the pronunciation against a will not witnessed in accordance with the Wills Act 1837 and revocation of probate based thereon and action for account of sums spent by executor in administration of the estate.
- Landlord & Tenant: numerous cases acting for landlords in relation to claims for possession under the Rent Act 1977 where suitable alternative accommodation offered and
- Landlord & Tenant: acting for Landlord in relief from forfeiture proceedings where the tenant applied for relief 9 months after peaceful possession was obtained and one day before the contractual term, protected under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, came to an end. Arguments over whether the tenant was still in possession for the purpose of the 1954 Act.
Rhys is also an experienced family law practitioner who undertakes all types of cases but is most notably instructed in financial provision / ancillary relief claims. Some examples of recent and current cases include:
- Ancillary Relief: Acting for a wife in an ancillary relief case following a foreign divorce which involved mortgage possession proceedings by a bank where the husband alleged that the wife had re-mortgaged the matrimonial home without his consent. Issue as to whether the bank took possession free of the husband’s proprietary interest in the home or was bound by it.
- Acting on ancillary relief application for the husband serving a prison sentence for conviction for sexual abuse offences. Conduct in issue in the ancillary relief.
- Acting for the wife in ancillary relief proceedings following judicial separation and then divorce proceedings 20 years previously. Arguments as to jurisdiction of the court to now vary previous orders made varying pre- or post-nuptial settlement.
- Various ancillary relief cases involving members of the parties’ family as intervenors in relation or property whose ownership was disputed.
- Disputed Contact/Foreign Jurisdiction: Acting for Wife in relation to High Court proceedings over a contact dispute with Husband who had left the jurisdiction for a non Hague Convention country in the Middle East. Parallel proceedings also existed in the foreign jurisdiction.
- Disputed Contact/serious allegations: acting for a parent in relation to fact finding hearing of allegations of sexual abuse in private law contact proceedings
- Injunctions: Acting for the Official Solicitor representing father on appeal against sentence to the Court of Appeal following committal by High Court for breach of Injunction. Involved the question of interpretation of provisions in relation to time spent on remand for the obtaining of medical evidence.
Professional Associations
Family Law Bar Association
Property Bar Association