The Express Financial Remedy Procedure Pilot

Between the first (A Paper to consider the future use of Remote Hearings in the FRC) and third (Transparency in the Financial Remedies Court) Farquhar reports, the members of the FRC Recovery Group – initially set up by Mr Justice Mostyn and chaired throughout by His Honour Judge Stuart Farquhar – were put to good use.

• Journal

• Procedure
• Fast Track
• Express Financial Remedy Procedure

• Samantha Hillas KC

!18/03/2025 06:00

Pre-Nuptial Agreements: an ‘Oven-Ready’ Solution to a Pressing Problem? A House of Lords Debate

Late last month, Baroness Deech brought a motion in the House of Lords, ‘That this House takes note of the law relating to prenuptial agreements’. The debate came against the backdrop of Baroness Deech having (of course) long pursued financial remedies reform through her Divorce (Financial Provision) Bill.

• Blog

• Pre-Nuptial Agreements

• Joanne Edwards
• Ellen Jones
• Renesha Hodgson

!13/03/2025 16:45

Financial Remedies – Next Steps on the Road to Reform?

On 18 December 2024 the Law Commission published its Scoping Report on financial remedies on divorce and dissolution. The Scoping Report sets out their findings that the current law does not provide a cohesive framework in which couples going through a divorce can expect fair and sufficiently certain outcomes.

• Journal

• Reform
• Maintenance
• Conduct
• Law Commission
• Pensions
• Nuptial Agreements
• Financial Remedies

• Professor Nick Hopkins
• Professor Thérèse Callus
• Christine Gentry

!18/03/2025 06:00

Principles vs Resources: Conduct and the Law Commission Scoping Report

The Law Commission’s long awaited scoping report on financial remedies was published on 18 December 2024. It concludes that the law relating to financial remedy should be reformed. We asked the Law Commission to clarify whether their concerns in respect of the fairness of the outcomes was restricted to litigants who had experienced domestic abuse in their marriage.

• Journal

• Conduct
• Law Commission

• Samantha Hillas KC
• Anita Mehta
• Olivia Piercy

!18/03/2025 06:00

Interview with Sir Nicholas Francis

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.

• Journal

• HHJ Edward Hess | Chair of the Editorial Board
• Nicholas Allen KC

!18/03/2025 06:00