Interview with David Salter
Nicholas Allen KC and Ellie Foster interview David Salter, beginning with how he came to study law at university.
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OS v DT and Post-Separation Income: Fairness Trumps Inflexibility
In ‘Post-Separation Income: Has Rossi Survived Waggott and Standish?’ (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
Non Court Dispute Resolution – 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
Chattels: What If They Are Not to Be Divided by Agreement?
Chattels are often in dispute between parties to financial remedy proceedings. However their division is something their lawyers are very happy not to get involved with. Little is more likely to lead to a sigh of relief than the words ‘Chattels – to be divided by agreement’.
But what principles apply
ST v AR: The Origin of Assets and the Assessment of Needs
As Mostyn J observed in Clarke v Clarke [2023] 2 FLR 1 at [36], Peel J’s oft-quoted summary of the law in WC v HC (Financial Remedies Agreements) (Rev 1) [2022] 2 FLR 1110 at [21] is an ‘impeccable synopsis of the jurisprudence applicable in financial remedy cases [which]
Betting the Farm
‘The beleaguered Judge looked from farming case to financial remedy case, and from financial remedy case to farming case, and from farming case to financial remedy case again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
In an area of law that has many dedicated sub-genres, few are
Interview with Sir Nicholas Francis
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Nicholas Allen KC and HHJ Edward Hess interviewed Sir Nicholas Francis over dinner in December 2024, a few months after he retired from the High Court Bench
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