Background
Toch comes from a sporting family: her father is the former boxer, Peter Toch, a British Army and 1950 American Bar Association Heavyweight Champion.
Toch comes from a sporting family: her father is the former boxer, Peter Toch, a British Army and 1950 American Bar Association Heavyweight Champion.
King"s College London.
She was in the first women"s crew to row at Henley Royal Regatta. After finishing her own competitive rowing, Toch became a successful Junior Rowing coach with crews competing at National and Inter-Regional finals. Toch received a degree in law from King"s College London and was called to the Bar in 1988.
She undertook a criminal pupillage at the Chambers of Ann Goddard Queen's Counsel and then worked in her own name until 1990 when she became a lecturer at the Inns of Court School of Law training law students in the skills of a barrister.
In 1992 Toch returned to practice and undertook a civil pupillage and began to do a mix of civil and criminal work while also working as a part-time assessor for the Bar Council, setting exam papers and assessing entrants to the Bar. In 1996 she moved to the Chambers of John Hodgson at 3, Doctor Johnson"s Buildings, a civil and family Chambers where she undertook the full range of family work including high-profile cases in the High Court, Principal Registry of the Family Division, County Courts and Family Proceedings Court.
In 2002 she moved to work in a solicitor"s practice in South London. She also gave advice at the Croydon One Stop Shop for victims of domestic abuse, the first in the country.
In 2007 she moved to work in the family department of Brachers solicitors, the largest solicitors in Kent where she specialised in divorce, ancillary relief, cohabitation disputes, children"s residence and contact cases, many of which were complex with international aspects.
Toch has been involved in a number of notable cases in family law which are now cited as precedent:
Hubbard and Scott EWHC 2750 (Ch) – a probate case regarding undue influence
Rana v Manan (validity of foreign marriage) 2011 American Economic Review (Doctorate) 179 (May) – a family case regarding the validitly of Ahmaadi sect marriages in Pakistan and the recognition of such in England and Wales
Goyal v Goyal EWCA Civ 523 (27 February 2014)- "Marriage to imposter" rulings.
She is a member of the Chambers of Mr Ami Feder at Lamb Building, Temple. Toch is a member of the Family Law Bar Association, an associate member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association) and a door tenant at ShenSmith Barristers chambers.