Resolution’s Report on Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings: An Overview of the Key Findings and Recommendations

This blog piece has been timed to coincide with the publication, on 8 October 2024, of the report by Resolution on ‘Domestic Abuse in Financial Remedy Proceedings’. This groundbreaking report delves into the interplay between domestic abuse and the treatment of finances on separation and divorce/dissolution, and how domestic abuse is addressed in other financial proceedings.

• Blog

• Domestic Abuse

• Jennifer Lee
• Oluwapelumi Amanda Adeola

!08/10/2024 12:45

Report of the Duxbury Working Party (provisional), September 2024

The Duxbury Working Party have just released their provisional report. It has been prepared without any prior public consultation and is published provisionally to allow interested parties to respond. Responses should be emailed to j.rainer@qeb.co.uk by 1 November 2024 and will be considered by the Working Party ahead of publication of their final report which is intended to be on 15 November 2024.

• Blog

• Duxbury Capitalisation

• Michael Allum
• Simon Bruce
• Sarah Hoskinson
• Lewis Marks KC
• Sir Nicholas Mostyn
• Joe Rainer
• Mary Waring

!02/10/2024 13:31

Delaying a Divorce Because of Financial Prejudice: The New No-fault Law and Practice

There can be real loss and prejudice in some divorce cases if the final divorce order, previously the decree absolute, is granted before the final financial settlement and its implementation in circumstances when the paying party then dies.

• Blog

• divorce

• Professor David Hodson OBE KC(Hons) MCIArb

!07/10/2024 22:10

GH v GH [2024] EWFC 272

Peel J. In a narrow but important judgment, Peel J reminds all of the importance of an FDR, allowing an appeal against a decision of the first instance judge to proceed directly to a final hearing.

• Cases

• FDRs
• Financial Remedies Court (FRC)
• Appeals
• Efficient Conduct

• Liam Kelly

!06/10/2024 21:22

IN v CH [2024] EWFC 2338 July 2024

Mr Stephen Trowell KC. The husband and wife made competing applications for an order for sale in respect of the matrimonial home and a yacht. The court found that the wife did not have a beneficial interest in the matrimonial home and ordered the property to be sold. The wife’s application to sell the yacht was unsuccessful as it belonged to a company, AB, who had not been joined to the proceedings.

• Cases

• Sale of Property
• Interim Relief
• Joinder of Third Parties
• Trusts

• Jasmine Knapman