OLIVER WISE

Call: 1981

Practice profile
Oliver's main areas of work are ancillary relief and professional negligence, especially in relation to family law; but he has extensive experience of a broad range of common law work. He has a particular interest in cases that involve more than one area of the law.

He is recommended as a leading junior in family work in 'Legal Experts'

Interesting cases
Williams v Thompson Leatherdale [2009] 2 FLR 730
Behzadi v Behzadi [2009] 2 FLR 649
Johnson v Unisys [2003] 1 AC 518 (HL)
R v LSC ex p. W  [2000] 1 WLR 2502 (Court of Appeal)

Appointments and Memberships
Oliver is a legal assessor to the Nursing & Midwifery Council. He is a member of the Family Law Bar Association and the Professional Negligence Bar Association.

Publications / Lectures
He has lectured to firms of solicitors on professional negligence issues and pitfalls.

Education
Oliver read law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was a Greenland scholar of Lincoln's Inn.

Personal
Oliver is married with three children. He plays cricket and real tennis.