Tara Lyons

Tara Lyons is a highly regarded barrister specialising in financial remedies cases, children law and contentious probate and inheritance disputes. She represents a range of litigants and is instructed to appear in courts and tribunals at all levels up to and including the Court of Appeal.  Tara is also an experienced mediator and accepts instructions to act as a judge in private FDRs (whether remotely or in person). She is also the co-host and co-founder of ’The Family Law Podcast’.

Tara is consistently ranked as a leading individual in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 directories where she is described as having “excellent soft client skills and is a persuasive advocate with an intelligent and strategic approach to cases.” (2024 directories). Previous editions describe her as “dynamic, bright and cuts to the chase. A formidable and skilled advocate beyond her year of call with a talent for fostering a good working relationship with instructing solicitors. She is professional, dedicated and focused.”,  “She is very good with clients and can identify the issues and outcome sought after at an early stage.” and “Judges cannot ignore the sense and the ingenuity of her submissions.” (2023 directories) “strategically brilliant” “great on her feet and completely unflappable“,  “a clear advocate who is all over the papers and knows all the numbers” and “her attention to detail is exemplary, she is well prepared and manages clients expectations with care and clarity” (2022 directories), “perspicuous and excellent on her feet ” (2021 directories) “a well regarded junior”,  who is “efficient, commercially minded” “knowledgeable and gives clear confident advice” (2020 directories) and “very good with clients and very knowledgeable on the law” (2019)

Tara is known for her sensitive and friendly representation of clients which she combines with a robust and pragmatic approach to the case.  Clients say Tara has  “a sharp legal mind” and describe her as being  “extremely capable on her feet” .

Other testimonials include:

“I cannot recommend Tara Lyons highly enough.  She has represented several clients at final hearing and on each occasion her preparation and advocacy has been second to none.  The results she has achieved for my clients have been exceptional and on every occasion at the very high end of what I could have expected a Judge to award.  This is down to the thoroughness of the preparation, the energy and care she brings to her work, her ability to work well under pressure and Court deadlines, and the fact that Judges really like her.  I particularly appreciate the way she keeps me as her Instructing Solicitor in the loop.  She will always telephone me to discuss the case prior to a hearing and will consult me throughout appropriately.  She has a very good manner with clients who love her.”

“May I please firstly comment on the tenaciousness, attention to detail and professionalism that Ms Lyons has displayed both in respect to us as clients and in her role as our Barrister. She has undertaken our case, which was extremely challenging due to a number of complex issues and has successfully secured a judgement in our favour. Ms Lyons is a credit to both the legal profession and Pump Chambers”

“Tara was very pragmatic in her approach, yet was still compassionate towards my clients who were in a very emotional and difficult situation. Tara was also direct and let my client’s know when they were perhaps not being reasonable in their opinions, she did not try and rush matters, but was a good guide. Over all my client’s goal was to settle on the day, Tara was instrumental in achieving this. I personally appreciated the time she took after the mediation had ended to go over the day with Counsel and myself (we are both junior), and point out what we could have done differently.”

As mediator:

“I just wanted to thank you for your excellent conduct of the mediation  last week and for the sensitive way you dealt with my client. I’m pleased we managed to resolve this one.”

Tara is authorised to accept work on a direct access basis as part of the Public Access Scheme.