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No Special Favours: Litigants in Person and the Financial Remedies Court
Although not impacted in the same way as private law children proceedings by the restrictions on access to justice brought about the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, which came into force on 1 April 2013, there are many parties who represent themselves in financial remedy proceedings, sometimes due to cost and sometimes by choice.
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- Litigants in Person
!23/10/2024 10:35
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GH v GH – FDRs Are Not to Be Dispensed With
If ever there were any doubts as to the importance of the FDR appointment and the parties’ attendance at one, then Mr Justice Peel has unequivocally put those doubts to rest in his judgment in GH v GH [2024] EWFC 272.
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- FDRs
!21/10/2024 22:38
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A 40-Year Revolution in Financial Remedies
Mr Justice Moor considers the fundamental transformation of financial remedy work since he undertook his first ever case on 19 July 1983 in the Edmonton County Court, just over 41 years ago.
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- At A Glance
!16/10/2024 11:11
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At A Glance Conference 2024: Conference Report
A report from the At A Glance Conference 2024, the flagship financial remedy conference which took place on Wednesday 9 October 2024, chaired by Peel J.
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- At A Glance
!16/10/2024 11:00
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At A Glance Conference 2024: Live Updates
Minute-by-minute updates from the 2024 At A Glance Conference, as it happened.
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- At A Glance
!16/10/2024 09:48
Latest cases
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FC v WC [2024] EWFC 29121 October 2024
HHJ Vincent sitting as a s 9 Deputy High Court Judge. The parties entered a French form of civil partnership when living in France. After returning to live in England in 2022, they were informed that their dissolution was not capable of recognition under s 235(1) CPA 2004 as at the commencement of their dissolution neither party to the dissolution was a French national and was not resident or domiciled in France.
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- Civil Partnerships
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Lloyd Dorian Williams v Gerwyn Lloyd Williams & Ors [2024] EWCA Civ 421 February 2024
King, Asplin, and Nugee LJJ. Family farm. No dispute that applicant/appellant and his parents acquired the property on trust for themselves as equal co-owners. Absent express declaration, did they hold as joint tenants or tenants in common?
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- TLATA Applications
- Survivorship (Right Of)
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HJB v WPB [2024] EWFC 18710 July 2024
HHJ Vincent. Preliminary hearing to determine whether parties should be held to a separation agreement. Agreement found to be ‘presumptively dispositive’. An agreement will not be unpicked merely because a business has thereafter performed well.
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- Disclosure
- Agreements
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V v V (Financial Remedy Hearing) [2024] EWFC 255 (B)6 September 2024
HHJ Willans. Three-day final financial remedy hearing involving the computation of the assets available for distribution including properties in India.
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- Matrimonial and Non-Matrimonial Property
- Modest Asset Cases
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NW v BH [2024] EWFC 118 (B)23 May 2024
Recorder Rhys Taylor. Evidentially complex final hearing in needs-based case involving verbal Daniels v Walker application, abandoning of SJE report, disclosure inadequacies, and an intervenor being removed.
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- Disclosure
- Daniels v Walker Application
- Joinder of Third Parties