MICHAEL HOSFORD–TANNER

Call: 1974

Practice profile
Michael has a specialist family law practice. Legal 500 describes him as ‘reassuring’ and ‘highly rated’. His family law experience is mainly in matrimonial financial claims (including cases involving trusts, tracing of assets and value in family companies, and involving fluctuating City and entertainment earnings) and unmarried mother’s financial claims under schedule 1 of the Children Act (especially where high child care costs and/or earnings reduced as result of appropriate care of the child).

He has extensive experience in private child law, including international child abduction (involving cases both outside and within Europe), applications to remove children permanently from UK and for private clients involved in public child law cases (where there has been social services involvement and client wishes to produce a family-based solution).

His practice has included regular work in the field of professional conduct tribunals, and in general common law (including professional negligence cases).

Reported Cases
Vigreux v Michel [2006] 2FLR 1180 (Brussels II Revised)
T v T [2004] EWHC 1885 (Family getting costs award in child contact case)
Flavell v Flavell [1997] 1 FLR 353 – women in their 50s not self-sufficent
Re K ( (Child Abduction: Forum Conveniens) [1995] 2 FLR 2


Appointments
Legal Assessor CIMA, and on Legal Assessor panel for Farriers, Nurses, and General Chiropractic Council.

Education
Michael read Law at Trinity College, Dublin

Personal
His interests include cricket, running, horses and motorbikes.