Year of Call: 1994
Clerk: Lesley Haikney

Owen Thomas undertakes cases involving all aspects of family law.

Recent cases of note in the court of appeal, the high court and the county court have involved allegations of murder, sexual abuse, non-accidental (including head) injuries, burns and serious emotional harm as well as those in which children (as victims and perpetrators) have given evidence. He regularly appears in cases in which one or more of the parties are represented by silks against whom he frequently appears without a leader.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Owen undertakes cases in the Welsh language and has been ranked within the first band of leading juniors on the Wales circuit in family law by Chambers and Partners UK for many years. Recently he has been described as a "good choice for children", as possessing “sound judgement and a nice manner with clients" and was recommended this year as "a fighter with a real gift for oratory." Owen has also been endorsed by instructing solicitors as "thorough, sensible and competent". The Legal 500 describes him as "an excellent family and matrimonial lawyer with trust and probate experience".

Educated at Ysgol Gyfun y Strade in Llanelli, Owen then studied law at Wadham College, Oxford before going on to the Inns of Court School of Law in London.