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Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood

Call: 1986

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Expertise:

  • Financial Remedies, Financial claims for children (Schedule 1), Cohabitation/Trusts of Land, Family Law Act, Inheritance Act

Services:

  • Advice and Representation, Mediators, Private FDR Evaluators

Practice

Christopher’s practice consists mainly of complex financial claims, involving companies, farms, offshore assets and conflicts of law.

Other work includes drafting and advising upon pre nuptial agreements. Christopher has also acted as an expert on English financial remedies claims in French proceedings.

All financial claims arising on family breakdown, including financial remedies claims in divorce, Schedule 1 cases, TOLATA and Inheritance Act claims. 

Reported cases include:

  • ShapeText BoxT v S (Financial Provision for Children) [1994] 2 FLR 883
  • A v A (A Minor: Financial Provision) [1994] 1 FLR 657
  • Thomas v Thomas [1995] 2 FLR 668 CA
  • Sears Tooth (A firm) v Payne Hicks Beach (A firm) and Others [1997] 2 FLR 116
  • Wicks v Wicks [1998] 1 FLR 470 CA
  • D v D (Lump Sum: adjournment of application) [2001] 1 FLR 633
  • H v M (Property occupied by Wife’s Parents) [2003] EWHC 625 (Fam) [2004] 2 FLR 16
  • A v A & St George’s Trustees (No 1) [2007] EWHC 99 (Fam) [2007] 2 FLR 467
  • A v A & St George’s Trustees (No 2) (Ancillary relief: costs) [2007] EWHC 1810 (Fam) [2008] 1 FLR 1428
  • CG v IF (MFPA 1984 Part III: Lugano Convention) [2010] EWHC 1062 (Fam) [2010] 2 FLR 1790
  • Kliers v Kliers [2020] EWFC 1026 (Fam) [2020] 2 FLR 1276

Christopher is a contributor to Rayden & Jackson on Divorce and Family Matters. He writes the chapters on Stays and injunctions in matrimonial and other proceedings and on the Recognition of divorces, annulments, legal separations and the dissolution of civil partnership proceedings.

He also lectures on financial remedy topics, including Trusts, Farming cases and Compensation.

Christopher is a member of the FLBA.

  • Canford School, Wimborne, Dorset
  • MA Brasenose College, Oxford (Open Exhibition):
  • Post graduate law degree, Aix-Marseille University (French Government Scholarship)

Christopher is married to a Norwegian journalist/translator. They have two (grown up-ish) children. He speaks French and conversational Norwegian.

Outside work, Christopher’s interests including history and the history of art, ballet and music, cross country skiing and sailing.