Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

Rhys Taylor | Vice Chair of the Editorial Board & Journal Editor

Rhys Taylor is a barrister at The 36 Group. He is a member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee, the sub-committee of the Online Procedure Rule Comm...

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Interview with Steve McCrone, the Senior Clerk at 1 Hare Court

Interview with Steve McCrone, the Senior Clerk at 1 Hare Court

The Editorial Board of FRJ wanted to hear from a family law clerk. By universal acclaim, Steve McCrone was agreed as ‘the senior man’ having been clerking for nearly 35 years and so the invitation fell to him (other senior clerks are available). Steve, can I ask you how old

No Special Favours: Litigants in Person and the Financial Remedies Court

No Special Favours: Litigants in Person and the Financial Remedies Court

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/fam/2024/2614 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

The Art of the Award: Delivering an Arbitral Award in a Financial Remedies Case

The Art of the Award: Delivering an Arbitral Award in a Financial Remedies Case

Like advocacy, award writing is a solitary and idiosyncratic art. No doubt others use different brush strokes. These are my tips for award writing. A stitch in time saves nine. The tribunal does not want to be left at the end of a hearing without a clear roadmap of what

NCDR Redux: The Impact of October’s CPR Amendments

NCDR Redux: The Impact of October’s CPR Amendments

One of the changes to the FPR 2010 made when the material parts of the Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023 came into force on 29 April 2024 was an amendment to r 28.3(7) which by the insertion of a new (aa)(ii) makes ‘any failure by

Tech Corner: Ethical AI for Family Lawyers

Tech Corner: Ethical AI for Family Lawyers

A conversation between Kay Firth-Butterfield and Rhys Taylor Rhys Taylor: Could you tell me about your current role please? Kay Firth-Butterfield: Currently, I run my own consultancy, education and thought leadership company called Good Tech Advisory through which I give speeches and help companies and countries think about their design,

Revised Finance Pre-Action Protocol

Revised Finance Pre-Action Protocol

On 29 April 2024 important changes were made to FPR Part 3 and Part 28 to promote non-court dispute resolution (NCDR). These changes include requiring the court to encourage parties to use NCDR, the introduction of a new form (FM5) requiring parties to set out their views on NCDR, and

D(R) Day: Today’s Changes to FPR Parts 3 and 28

D(R) Day: Today’s Changes to FPR Parts 3 and 28

FPR Part 3 has historically been underused. This is strange given that: 1. FPR 1.4(1) provides that the court ‘must further the overriding objective by actively managing cases’; and 2. FPR 1.4(2)(f) states that active case management includes ‘encouraging the parties to use a non-court