Family Financial Arbitration: A Short Guide

Gavin Smith is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court. He specialises in financial disputes resulting from all forms of relationship breakdown, especially those with an international dimension.

Gavin also has an expanding private dispute resolution practice. He is a Resolution-trained mediator and collaborative lawyer, and in February 2012 was trained and accredited as an arbitrator (MCIArb) under the new family arbitration scheme established by the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators. With fellow arbitrators Sir Peter Singer and Rhys Taylor (30 Park Place Chambers, Cardiff) he was voted 'Most Innovative Family Lawyer of the Year 2012' at the Jordans Award Ceremony in October 2012, for their 'pioneering approach' to the cause of arbitration in developing their website FamilyArbitrator.com and managing its parallel LinkedIn discussion group of the same name. Together these resources comprise the most up-to-date and comprehensive information and research platform available for arbitration in family financial cases.

Gavin is a co-editor of At A Glance and @eGlance and co-author of Financial Remedies under the Family Procedure Rules, published by Class Legal as a companion to @eGlance, now in its second edition. He also writes Class Legal's monthly Finance Cases Round-Up. Gavin is a co-author of Smith & Bishop, Enforcing Financial Orders in Family Proceedings, and wrote the chapters on domestic and international enforcement of financial orders for the current edition of Rayden & Jackson.