About

Rhys Johns

The senior person, direct — twenty years at the Bar, one fixed fee, from the first conversation.

Barrister · Called 2005 · Direct Access & authorised to conduct litigation

Called
2005 · 20 years at the Bar
Instruct me
Direct Access · no solicitor needed
Based
Cardiff · serving Wales & England
Regulated by
The Bar Standards Board
Rhys Johns, Barrister

The person you actually instruct.

I have practised at the Bar for twenty years. I am a barrister — not a solicitor, and not a firm — which means the person you speak to at the first conversation is the person who does the work, argues the case, and puts their name to the advice. I built Barraj on a direct-access footing so that clients can instruct me straight, without a solicitor in the middle and without paying twice over to reach the specialist.

My work falls into three parts: business and commercial (agreements, company and shareholder documents, and the disputes that come out of them); private client (wills, lasting powers of attorney, trusts and estate planning); and contentious work across employment, property and insolvency. I advise, I draft, and — because I am authorised to conduct litigation — I can run a matter and appear at the hearing myself. Not everything suits direct access; where a solicitor genuinely needs to hold the file, I say so at the outset rather than take work that is not mine to take.

I work on fixed fees, agreed before anything begins and paid up front, because that is what protects independence: once I am paid to do a defined piece of work, I am paid to tell you the truth about it — not to keep a relationship comfortable. And I take a deliberately limited number of matters, so that the senior person stays the working person. That is the whole of the idea — you get counsel, directly, in defined pieces, and you know the price before you commit.

Where I appear

I advise and represent clients in the courts and tribunals in which this work is heard — principally:

The County Court & High Court
The Employment Tribunal
The Family Court — financial remedy
The Court of Protection

Representative work

Representative of the kinds of matter I take. Every engagement is confidential and quoted individually; published case examples appear, with clients' consent, on the home page.

—Emergency and interim applications — injunctions and urgent relief, drafted and argued at short notice.
—Shareholder, partnership and commercial disputes — from letter of claim through to trial or settlement.
—Employment claims and settlement, for employees and employers — tribunal claims, responses and settlement agreements.
—Wills, trusts and estate planning — including business owners and estates needing more than the standard structure.
—Family finances on divorce or separation — financial remedy, consent orders, and representation at the FDR and final hearing.
—Corporate and personal insolvency — winding-up and bankruptcy petitions, defending or restraining them, and directors’ personal exposure.
—Inheritance Act 1975 claims and contentious probate — written advice on the merits, and conduct of the claim.

Don't take my word for it — check

Every practising barrister is on the public Barristers' Register. You can confirm my authorisation, and read the BSB's Public Access Guidance for Lay Clients, on the Bar Standards Board website. My regulatory and required information — fees, insurance and complaints — is published in full.

The first conversation is free

Bring me the situation. I'll tell you where you stand.

info@barraj.co.uk · 029 2264 4149

Sophia House, 28 Cathedral Road, Cardiff CF11 9LJ

Barraj Legal is a trading style of Rhys Johns, a barrister authorised and regulated by the Bar Standards Board. Authorised to conduct litigation. Direct Access (Public Access) instructions accepted.