Philip Squire

Philip is liked by solicitors as he specialises in difficult briefs whether because the personal circumstances of the client are against them or the facts pose a challenge: his eleven years volunteering with a London soup-run make for excellent communication skills and courage under pressure. An advocacy trainer for the Inner Temple, he has a confident court presence and when the case needs it, dogged tenacity.

His practice is principally public and private children issues representing any party and he undertakes some common law work, mostly in the field of public housing. In addition he has a buoyant financial provision practice up to and including high-value work in the High Court and on appeal.

When time allows, Philip is able to take instructions under the Bar Council Direct Access Scheme

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Michaelmas 1997

Housing Studies, University of Sheffield

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Degree/University
Housing Studies, University of Sheffield
Memberships
Member of the Family Law Bar Association

Areas of Practice
Family,
General Common Law
Reported Cases

Re B [2012] EWHC 2295 (Fam)
Re S [2012] EWCA Civ 1031
Perera v Dhanak, Grunwick v Perera [2011]
Chancery case involving alleged theft and unlawful retention of loaned monies
M v F, H & BA [2011] EWCA Civ 273, [2011] 2 FLR 123
Guidance given on the circumstances in which the existence of a child can be concealed from a married father
Al-Saedy v Musawi [2010] EWHC 3293 (Fam) [2011] 2FLR 287
Application of the presumption of marriage to a couple living together under an Islamic “religious agreement”
Ben Hashem v Shayif & ors. [2009] EWHC 3462 Financial Provision

Outside Interests
Annual charity motorbike ride, promoting access to law via work at law centres (currently Waterloo Legal Advise Service), food, orienteering, buying absurdly cheap old cars.
 

An Englishman abroad

Mark Jones explores the tricky issue of domicile of origin over domicile of choice in Morris v Davies

 

The recent decision of the High Court in the case of Morris v Davies [2011] EWHC 1773 (Ch) emphasised the tenacious nature of a person's domicile of origin and the intensely fact-based approach to considering assertions of substitution of the same by an alternative domicile of choice.

The dispute arose from the administration of the estate of the late Owen Davies, who was born in England on 1 November 1963 and who died unexpectedly of a heart attack in Paris on the 26 November 2008, aged just 45. What happened thereafter informed much of the considerable antipathy in the case and the media interest at the time of the trial, where those close to the deceased agreed to and did conceal the fact of his death and his funeral from his family, with such a degree of success that for several months after both events they remained in complete ignorance.

 

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The Dowry in law

"The Dowry in law" by Miss Suki K Johal,

Barrister at 3 Dr Johnson's Building. Temple. London

In recent years there has been a proliferation of cases in the English courts on the issue of Indian dowries particularly in areas of high Asian population. The Oxford English Dictionary broadly defines dowry as encompassing 'money or property the wife brings with her to the husband's home; the portion given with the wife; a present or gift given by a man to or for his bride'. The Chambers English Dictionary provides 'the property which a woman brings to her husband at marriage; sometimes a gift given to or for a wife at marriage'. These definitions provide that dowry has two constituents- the giving of property to the bride from parents and kin and the giving of jewellery from the in-laws.

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