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Mark Twomey
Call 1990
LLB (Hons) Bristol University 1989

AREAS OF PRACTICE
 

Children, Ancillary Relief, Housing/Homelessness, Landlord & Tenant and Personal Injury

Mark Twomey is a common law practitioner specialising in all areas of family law, especially child care and ancillary relief; personal injury; landlord and tenant and housing.

Mark is a regular broadcaster on legal issues and is the Co-founder of "Our Lady of Good Counsel Legal Advice Centre" - 1995 to present day.

REPORTED CASES
 


Family Law

Soulsbury v Soulsbury [2007] EWCA Civ 969; [2008] 2 WLR 834
Husband and wife - Financial provision - Agreement - Husband ordered to make periodical payments to wife - Parties' agreement that husband bequeath lump sum to wife if order not enforced - Court's approval of agreement not sought - Husband dying intestate - Whether agreement void as agreement to oust jurisdiction of court - Whether enforceable

A v A [2001] EWCA Civ 1989; [2002] 1 FLR 701; [2002] 1 FCR 453; [2002] Fam Law 263
Wife's conduct, fabrication of evidence in ancillary relief proceedings: proper approach to transfer of tenancy claims where wife and child entitled to local authority housing.

H v H [2002] Fam 253; [2002] 1 FLR 248; [2002] 2 WLR 747; [2002] 1 ALL ER 185
Contempt of court; establishing that a judge hearing an application to purge a contempt did not have the power to create a partly immediate and partly suspended sentence.

Dennis v Dennis [2000] Fam 163; [2000] 3 WLR 1443; [2000] 2 FLR 231
Parties misled by court error into believing divorced, one party's subsequent marriage, question of violations of that party's rights under Articles 8 & 12 of the ECHR.

Re S (A child) [2002] EWCA Civ 1795; [2003] 1 FCR 138
Application of conditions to residence orders in exceptional circumstances to prevent relocation to Cornwall by mother.

Ramsay v Barber (2003) LTL 16/7/2003
Approach to father litigating in person seeking an adjournment due to lack of time to respond to mother's statement and due weight to be given to children's wishes and feelings.
 

Civil Litigation

Finnegan v Parkside Health Authority [1998] 1 WLR 411; [1998] 1 All ER 595; [1998] 4 Lloyd's Reports Med 149, TLR 16/12/97
Exercise of discretion and importance of prejudice in an application for extension of time for permission to appeal.

 

   
   

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