Stalo Michael v Mario Michael [2025] EWFC 245
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A Divorce, Gaslighting, Lack of Transparency, and a Port
Emma Brunning and Dharshica Thanarajasingham (with Alexander Thorpe KC and Saima Younis) represented the wife in TF v SF [2025] EWHC 1959 (Fam). The judge had to untangle a web of hidden assets, misleading disclosures and a multi-million-pound port deal to determine a fair financial settlement.
In Defence of Legal Fee Loans: The Economics of Access to Justice
The recent High Court judgment of Peel J in ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ท ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ [2025] EWFC 89 has renewed focus on the role of legal fee lending in family proceedings. This coincides with significant judicial commentary about funding arrangements, including notable judgments in ๐๐๐ ๐ท ๐๐๐ and ๐๐ ๐ท ๐๐.
Final Reflections on Standish: Was It All Worthwhile?
If asked, Mr Standish may say that three rounds of litigation, with another to follow, were worth it โ Mrs Standish, perhaps not. But for lawyers, with many questions left unanswered, and a feeling that the opportunity to settle the law on matrimonialisation with clarity and certainty has passed us by,
OS v DT and Post-Separation Income: Fairness Trumps Inflexibility
In โPost-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?โ (5 February 2025), Nicholas Allen KC considered the potential impact of Waggott v Waggott [2018] 2 FLR 406 on the argument that income (or the assets or capital generated therefrom) earned in or referable to the first 12 months post-separation should
A Priceless Inheritance: Family Law, Open Justice and the Rule of Law
โThe traditional law, that English justice must be administered openly in the face of all men, is an almost priceless inheritanceโ Earl Loreburn in Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417
Sir Nicholas Mostyn presented on this topic at the Bar Councilโs law reform lecture 2025, on 2 July 2025.
Non Court Dispute Resolution โ What Difference Does a Year (and a Bit) Make?
Important revisions to both FPR Part 3 and Part 28 came into effect on 29 April 2024 when the material parts of the Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 came into force.
The financial remedies pre-application protocol (annexed to PD 9A) was rewritten by the Financial Procedure Rule Committee
