Ian Miller

Ian Miller

  • Year of Call: 1999

  • LL.B (Hons)

     

Practice

Ian Miller is a specialist Family Law, Civil Law and Employment Law practitioner, having been a member of Broadway House Chambers since qualifying in 2000.

Family Law

In the Family Law arena Ian has an in-depth knowledge of matrimonial and cohabitation law. He regularly represents clients in complicated ancillary relief proceedings as well as in cases brought under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. Ian’s practice is focused on how the appropriate provision for family members after divorce or separation can be made, with particular emphasis on orders involving transfers of land, trusts relating to land, business assets and third parties.

Ian also has a strong practice in Children Act 1989 proceedings, both in the private law and public law spheres. In the field of public law he acts on behalf of individual and Local Authority clients in highly complex cases where allegations of serious violence and sexual abuse have been raised. On the private law side he acts for parents in difficult disputes, often involving international elements including where one parent is seeking to remove children from theUKpermanently.

Ian Miller has been repeatedly recommended in the Legal 500 directory since 2007 for his work in Family Law, and he is often called upon to deliver lectures and seminars to fellow practitioners.

Civil & Employment Law

Alongside his family work, Ian Miller is also a member of Broadway House’s Civil Law and Employment Law teams.

Ian has practiced at the Civil Law bar for ten years and is often the barrister of choice for solicitors in such matters. His civil practice is broad but has a distinctly commercial flavour, with Ian regularly receiving instructions in litigation relating to the ownership of land (commercial property but also matters heard in the Lands Tribunal), equitable relief and the law of trusts, company and partnership law, and inter-company disputes involving construction and the sale and supply of goods. His practice is characterised by a combination of good business nous and sound legal judgment.

In Employment Law Ian acts for and advises clients, principally in unfair dismissal and discrimination cases but also in all the other areas Broadway House’s Employment Law team provide services. Known for his combative style of advocacy, Ian can be relied upon to represent his client's interests with vigour.

 

What The Directories Say

 

"Ian Miller offers 'attention to detail, thoroughness and an ability to relate to clients sympathetically'" - Legal 500 (2010)

Ian Miller "excels in complex ancillary relief cases involving business assets" - Legal 500 (2009)

"Ian Miller is very busy" - Legal 500 (2008) 

 

Ian Miller - a Direct Access Barrister

 

Ian Miller is able to accept Direct Access work under the Bar Public Access Scheme. For more information in relation to the scheme or to make a booking directly please contact our dedicated Civil & Family Clerking Team on the details provided opposite.

 

Professional Memberships

 

Family Law Bar Association

 

Notable Cases

 

Court of Appeal

Dolan v Corby [2012] 1 FCR 276

Property rights – Occupation order – Exceptional circumstances – Parties cohabiting as joint tenants in same property for many years – Applicant obtaining non-molestation injunction and seeking order allowing her to reside in property to exclusion of respondent – Applicant subsequently seeking to have respondent committed for breach of injunction – Injunction and committal applications being resolved by cross-undertakings – Recorder terminating respondent's rights of occupation on basis that respondent in better position to find alternative accommodation – Respondent appealing – Whether recorder erring in application of law – Family Law Act 1996, s 33(3), (6), (7).

Gull v Gull [2007] EWCA Civ 900

Contempt of court - Committal - Breach of non-molestation order - Length of committal order - Whether period of committal excessive. The defendant, who was subject to a non-molestation order in respect of his mother, had been committed to prison for 21 months for breach of that order. That period of committal was excessive and a 12 month period substituted in all the circumstances, including the non-violent nature of the breach and his vulnerability.

Re H (a child) (Contact: Domestic Violence) [2006] 1 FCR 102

Contact – Contact order – Family proceedings – Allegations of domestic violence between parents – Father allegedly submitting mother to serious assault – Judge granting father contact – Whether judge in error.