Alexander Chandler KC

Alexander Chandler KC

Alexander Chandler KC is a barrister specialising in financial remedies and TLATA at 1 King’s Bench Walk in London. He sits as a Recorder, Arbitrator ...

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Bundle of Joy: New Practice Direction on Bundles, Position Statements etc., Effective 2 March 2026

Bundle of Joy: New Practice Direction on Bundles, Position Statements etc., Effective 2 March 2026

Practice Guidance Update No. 6 of 2025 contains amendments to a range of existing FPR PDs, including a comprehensive re-writing of PD 27A, which started life as the ‘Bundles Direction’.

Gottle O’ Geer: Witness Statements and Their Misuse

Gottle O’ Geer: Witness Statements and Their Misuse

Most financial remedy cases don’t ‘go to trial’, for a host of good reasons: litigation is expensive, stressful and uncertain: even the strongest-looking cases have been known to develop cracks when exposed to cross-examination. Sometimes these emerge in answer to the gentlest of questioning.

‘Feral, Unprincipled and Unnecessarily Expensive’ – A Guide to Intervenor Claims

‘Feral, Unprincipled and Unnecessarily Expensive’ – A Guide to Intervenor Claims

Introduction Intervenor claims take us – family lawyers – out of our comfort zone. As financial remedy (FR) specialists we are used to dealing with discretion and grey areas: the assessment of housing and income need, where to draw the line between marital and non-marital assets, how to reflect pre-marital contributions. The

Sham, Adverse Inferences and the Burden of Proof: Awolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641

Sham, Adverse Inferences and the Burden of Proof: Awolowo [2025] EWCA Civ 641

It’s often the financial remedy cases involving non-family barristers or judges which are the most interesting. There’s something about an outsider’s perspective which can illuminate legal principle and remind us that, per Mostyn J, ‘the Family Courts are not a desert island’. Lord Sumption put it best

Legal Research, AI and the Canary in the Mineshaft

Legal Research, AI and the Canary in the Mineshaft

One of the sobering experiences of training to be a lawyer – the dawning realisation that it isn’t all dramatic cross-examination and fighting for the underdog – is legal research. Like learning a new language (let’s say, German), it’s a long and often tedious process. Some trainees, admittedly, seem

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC (1952–2025): An Obituary

James Turner KC, who has died aged 72, was a titan of the bar. In an increasingly specialised legal world, he had a uniquely broad practice for a family barrister: financial remedies, child abduction, divorce, crime, judicial review, medical disciplinary work and administrative law. He appeared in over 200 reported

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

The Winds of Change – Case Management and the Financial Remedies Court

Introduction Once upon a time, not so long ago, ‘ancillary relief’ was something of a legal backwater. Cases were determined solely by reference to ‘reasonable requirements’.[[1]] Procedural rules, to the extent they existed,[[2]] were short and loosely applied. Parties filed narrative affidavits of means and answered requests for