Helen Brander
Helen is a barrister and arbitrator at Pump Court Chambers working in the fields of matrimonial finance and inheritance, trusts and estates. She complements that with private Children Act 1989 work. She writes and lectures frequently on matters of interest, including document manipulation, cryptoassets, financial provision for adult children and issues arising in TLATA and proprietary estoppel. She has a particular interest in Italian law and culture.
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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 – 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 ‘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
A Priceless Inheritance: Family Law, Open Justice and the Rule of Law
“The traditional law, that English justice must be administered openly in the face of all men, is an almost priceless inheritance” Earl Loreburn in Scott v Scott [1913] AC 417
Sir Nicholas Mostyn presented on this topic at the Bar Council’s law reform lecture 2025, on 2 July 2025.