“Dyer is …..renowned for his experience as a private FDR judge.”
Nigel retired as an advocate in January 2022 after forty years in practice at the Bar, and he now works exclusively as a judge or evaluator in private Financial Dispute Resolution hearings (FDRs).
In October 2017 the Legal 500 described Nigel as “probably the leading London family silk”. In November 2017 Nigel won the Chambers & Partners’ ‘Family Silk of the Year’ award. In 2018 he won the LexisNexis Family Law Silk of the Year award followed a few years later by the Legal 500 Family Silk of the Year award in 2022.
As a practising barrister he appeared in a number of leading family law cases: in the Supreme Court (Agbaje, Owens) and in the Privy Council (Scatliffe ); in the Court of Appeal (Lambert, Richardson and Waggott); and at first instance (Akhmedova, the largest reported financial award made post-divorce by an English court, and Al Maktoum, the largest reported award made in a Part III and Schedule 1 claim).
He has been conducting private FDRs since 2016 and to date has evaluated over 300 cases. He was described as the “go-to choice as a private FDR judge” in Chambers and Partners Directory 2019, and described by one leading silk as “..providing a Rolls-Royce service”.
In both of the 2024 legal directories (Chambers & Ptnrs and the Legal 500) he is listed in Band 1 of the ‘Private FDR Judge / ADR’ sections.
The settlement rate of the cases he has evaluated over the last eight years has been consistently high; on an informal poll c. 85% – 90% of the claims settle on the day of the hearing or shortly thereafter.
The cases he evaluates range across a broad spectrum of financial claims, viz: financial remedy claims post-divorce, as well as Part III and Schedule 1 claims, and applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. The asset classes are varied and include: land and investments in the UK and abroad, company interests and business assets, farming operations, on-shore and off-shore pensions and trusts, and wealth held in deferred remuneration and private equity arrangements.
He works principally in London, although he also travels to hearings held in the major legal centres around the country as well as to the Channel Islands and the Cayman Islands.
“Dyer is …..renowned for his experience as a private FDR judge.”
Nigel retired as an advocate in January 2022 after forty years in practice at the Bar, and he now works exclusively as a judge or evaluator in private Financial Dispute Resolution hearings (FDRs).
In October 2017 the Legal 500 described Nigel as “probably the leading London family silk”. In November 2017 Nigel won the Chambers & Partners’ ‘Family Silk of the Year’ award. In 2018 he won the LexisNexis Family Law Silk of the Year award followed a few years later by the Legal 500 Family Silk of the Year award in 2022.
As a practising barrister he appeared in a number of leading family law cases: in the Supreme Court (Agbaje, Owens) and in the Privy Council (Scatliffe ); in the Court of Appeal (Lambert, Richardson and Waggott); and at first instance (Akhmedova, the largest reported financial award made post-divorce by an English court, and Al Maktoum, the largest reported award made in a Part III and Schedule 1 claim).
He has been conducting private FDRs since 2016 and to date has evaluated over 300 cases. He was described as the “go-to choice as a private FDR judge” in Chambers and Partners Directory 2019, and described by one leading silk as “..providing a Rolls-Royce service”.
In both of the 2024 legal directories (Chambers & Ptnrs and the Legal 500) he is listed in Band 1 of the ‘Private FDR Judge / ADR’ sections.
The settlement rate of the cases he has evaluated over the last eight years has been consistently high; on an informal poll c. 85% – 90% of the claims settle on the day of the hearing or shortly thereafter.
The cases he evaluates range across a broad spectrum of financial claims, viz: financial remedy claims post-divorce, as well as Part III and Schedule 1 claims, and applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. The asset classes are varied and include: land and investments in the UK and abroad, company interests and business assets, farming operations, on-shore and off-shore pensions and trusts, and wealth held in deferred remuneration and private equity arrangements.
He works principally in London, although he also travels to hearings held in the major legal centres around the country as well as to the Channel Islands and the Cayman Islands.
